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Storage Fusion

    support separate storage network for FDF

    support separate storage network for FDF
    2 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Support and Validate kubevirt-CSI on IBM Fusion HCI with HyperShift Hosted Control Plane Clusters

    Please certify the "kubevirt-csi" driver as a supported storage configuration for virtual HyperShift Hosted Control Plane (HCP) clusters running on IBM Fusion HCI. The validation scope should include: Compatibility with IBM Data Foundation (ODF/C...
    20 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Secure Data Overwrite

    I would like to request a secure data over write (Disk Sanitization) process for Fusion as we have for our other products (DS8k , Tape). The current developer for the tape SDO is Heiko Schloesser / hhschloe@us.ibm.com. I would like to formally req...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    Health Check script which validates total cluster health

    The idea is to provide customers with a simple health-check script they can run before an upgrade, planned shutdown, data-center power maintenance, or whenever they want to verify that their system is healthy. As of today, this process is mostly m...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Request for Modification of Reserved VLAN 4091 provisioning, in Fusion HCI

    Currently VLAN 4091 is reserved and used by default by the product for internal communications, for provisioning and that’s ok. The problem starts when you have more than one Fusion HCI rack in the same cluster, so you have to extend 4091 to all i...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    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?
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

    When a restore fails in Fusion today, it cannot be resumed from the UI - TS023127830

    When a restore fails in Fusion today, it cannot be resumed from the UI. The workaround script has a gap. Resuming from the Volumes stage creates new volumes instead of reusing the ones from the failed run, and the deployments don't reference them....
    7 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 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...
    11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Fusion Topology/Zone-Aware Zero-touch Backup and Restore for Multi Zone Environments

    Requirement In a multi-zone deployment of IBM Concert Operate and IBM Fusion, backup and restore operations should function end-to-end without requiring manual intervention.Currently, successful backup and restore workflows require manual actions:...
    14 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    More focus on stretched Scale for DR with Fusion HCI

    I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: Two separate OpenShift clusters (DR), one/site where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using failure groups.
    11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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