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Storage Fusion

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Fusion B&R RBAC and self service backup and recoveries

Customer is keen to use the self-service backup/restore to allow the app admins (admin users of particular namespaces) define and run their backup/restore jobs themselves. Currently the self-service backup/restore job definitions and job runs are ...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Fusion Backup&Recovery multi-hub architecture

Currently the backup jobs in Fusion B&R require the hub to be operational in order to run backups, with multi-hub approach (possilby in active/standby fashion) the backups would have higher reliability if there is a problem with hub.
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

GPU operator automation - enhancement

There are currently plans to automate the implementation of the GPU operator installation on detection of a specified GPU node. the operator automation process needs to completely deploy all the configuration of the Nvidia Operator including being...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Fusion HCI with SAN HBAs for Fusion Access

Fusion Access enables customers to use their existing SAN Block-Storage on OpenShift with our gpfs filesystem, which has significant advantages over block based CSI drivers!Unfortunately, this is only supported on Fusion SDS, as Fusion HCI does no...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Ship Fusion HCI with OCP and Fusion container images

When installing into an air-gap environment it is expected to mirror a specific OpenShift release and the Fusion images, then import them into the client network and push into the client provided private registry. This process is not tested proper...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Allow separation of Fusion Data Foundation service upgrades from general Fusion upgrade

Allow used to disconnect / separate Fusion Data Foundation upgrades from the general Fusion operator upgrades. Data Foundation must be max N-1 rev from OpenShift, this limitation either prevents and sometimes causes OpenShift upgrades to fail in t...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Resource Quota for Fusion Backup service

Currently, it is hard to estimate the amount of resources that Fusion backup service will consume. This makes it hard to size and license for the OCP infrastructure required. Will be good if we can allow user to set a resource quota for Fusion bac...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Add ability for Fusion Backup and Restore to lock backups using the S3 Object Lock API on supported object storage targets

We have a client who is currently working to harden and integrate more immutability and airgapped data. Fusion users need protected, tamper-proof backups for compliance or ransomware defense , giving admins managing backup retention across object ...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Add dual stack networking to IBM Fusion HCI automated installation

Currently the IBM Fusion HCI automated installation only allows for single stack IPv4 networking, and nothing else. Other choices that are supported by OpenShift are IPv6 single stack network, or dual stack networking with IPv4 <AND> IPv6. T...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Implementation of allowedTopologies

If you have a Openshift pod which wants to mount a GPFS filesystem, you need to manually, on each namespace specify a specific node selector policy to run your pod on a worker node with a deamon which has remote mount or it is a part of a internal...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration