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Storage Fusion

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Integration of a detailed, consolidated and exportable reporting feature for Fusion B&R across hub and spokes

I would like to suggest integrating detailed reporting into Fusion Backup & Restore, which can be exported as a CSV file, for example. In the Fusion UI and in OpenShift, some information about the applications on the hub cluster can be found u...
8 days ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

Containerized AFM node

We would like to have a containerized AFM node as an option in Fusion. Also, what type of encryption would be used in storage?
9 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add Fusion Backup & Restore in OpenShift Dedicated (OSD) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Platform Support Matrix

IBM Fusion Software documentation normally adds separate entries/rows to the platform support matrix (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-software/2.9.x?topic=services-fusion-platform-support-matrix) for managed-OpenShift platforms. The current mat...
13 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Need to be able to backup to Dell DataDomain

DataDomain cannot ingest S3 objects. It can ingest NFS. Need to be able to write Fusion Backup objects to NFS on DD.
7 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Fusion Data Foundation as a Service on ROSA

There are many OpenShift use cases on ROSA. If we can provide Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as a Service on ROSA, that will be useful solution for those cloud users. Such a cloud user usually don't want to install Software by themselves, they basic...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

Roadmap to integrate Storage Defender with Fusion

As clients move from VMWare to OpenShift, the workloads are more data intensive and mission critical. Fusion backup and recovery is market leading for container workloads. OpenShift VM backup and recovery is supported with guest agents from IBM St...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

run the Fusion Data Catalog under podman

This would allow more Scale customers that are entitled to Fusion Data Catalog Service to run it without additional infrastructure to run. Podman could run the Fusion Data Catalog service on a Scale System utility node. We would have more adoption...
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support for Windows Containers hosted by Openshift Virtualization VM running in Fusion HCI

Windows containers today are supported by Windows Machine Config Operator on AWS, Azure, GCP, Nutanix and vSphere. Working with clients looking for Fusion HCI as the Openshift platform, this Idea requests Fusion HCI to support running Windows Cont...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

A seamless support for custom namespace

Currently, even though Fusion supports custom namespace, the procedure requires manual steps. For example, FusionServiceDefinition has to be patched to reflect the correct custom namespace.
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review