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Storage Fusion

Repurpose AFM as Service Node on Fusion HCI

We have customers that purchased racks with AFM nodes and did not have service nodes. Many have converted from GDP to FDF and now have AFM that are not used. Can we convert the AFM nodes to service nodes?
3 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Add guided diagnostics for IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore issues

IBM Storage Fusion should provide a guided diagnostics function for Backup & Restore problems directly in the Fusion UI. When Backup & Restore components fail, administrators often need to manually inspect OpenShift resources such as pods,...
16 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Add an intelligent Recipe Generator to the IBM Storage Fusion UI

IBM Storage Fusion should provide an intelligent Recipe Generator directly in the Fusion UI. One of the greatest strengths and most valuable capabilities of IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore is its ability to process recipes, enabling applic...
16 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Improve certificate lifecycle visibility in IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore

IBM Storage Fusion should provide better visibility into the certificates and TLS secrets used by the Backup & Restore service. In production environments, Backup & Restore depends on several internal certificates and Kubernetes secrets. W...
16 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

IBM FUSION DATA FOUNDATION - ROUTE SERVICES

Banco do Brasil provisioned CP4D using the IBM Fusion Data Foundation essentials that they are entitled. Due to a client policy, it's prohibited to use the default cluster name to route services that are run from the cluster. So, it's required to ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Handle PVCs without StorageClass as warning instead of blocking the backup

IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore should handle PVCs without an OpenShift StorageClass more gracefully during backup validation. In some environments, especially with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, there can be many PVCs that refer to external NFS ...
4 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Prometheus metrics for Fusion Backup and Restore Service operations

Fusion currently exposes a limited set of Prometheus metrics for backup and restore operations. While sufficient for basic monitoring, these metrics do not provide enough detail for production-grade observability. Problem Statement: The current Pr...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Support OpenShift EUS (Extended Update Support) for IBM Fusion HCI

OpenShift EUS provides a stable, long-term support update channel with key advantages: Reduced update frequency (e.g., every 6 months instead of 3) Only one restart of non-control-plane nodes per update Shorter update duration Currently, IBM does ...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

More focus on stretched Scale for HA with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: A stretched OpenShift cluster (2AZ+Arbiter) over two sites (Fusion HCI/site) where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using fa...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Daily local file export of Fusion backup-related configuration data in readable yaml form

For IBM Storage Fusion, there is already a daily service protection backup of the Fusion Hub configuration. While this is important in disaster recovery (DR) scenarios, it's of little use in day-to-day operations, as the configurations backed up i...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion Under review

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