IBM Storage Fusion Delivers Application Resilience on Red Hat OpenShift

IBM Storage Fusion delivers application resilience on Red Hat OpenShift

IBM Spectrum Fusion is rebranded to IBM Storage Fusion
The company reveals the strength of the storage portfolio through its storage brand name. Spectrum Fusion is being rebranded to Storage Fusion to reinforce the most recent go to market strategy for the storage portfolio. Product PIDs, parts, licenses, code, and documentation will be renamed in future releases to complete this transition.

Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation moves to IBM
At the beginning of 2023, the Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation team moved to IBM. Its capabilities are delivered as an integrated component of Storage Fusion.

Storage Fusion includes advanced capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation
The integration of OpenShift Data Foundation components into Storage Fusion delivers advanced capabilities, such as DR, formerly only available in Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Advanced Edition.

Storage Fusion
In the modern business world, rapid decision making and speed of execution are key. Organizations that can tap into data to make higher quality decisions more quickly will gain a competitive advantage. Successful organizations are also realizing that cloud-native architectures based upon containers and microservices are a fundamental component of their ability to achieve speed and agility.

Storage Fusion is a cloud-native data services platform which delivers the simplicity and consistency modern businesses need to thrive. It is an integrated enterprise data services offering which can help accelerate your business’s ability to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage in a rapidly changing world.

Storage Fusion data services deliver capabilities including:

• Data persistence
• Data resilience
• Data security
• Data mobility
• Data discovery

Storage Fusion Data Foundation, an integrated Storage Fusion service, provides the primary data persistence capabilities in Storage Fusion. Platform engineers use Storage Fusion Data Foundation to remove friction by providing application developers self-service access to storage classes implemented consistently and securely across Red Hat OpenShift environments.

Improving velocity and rate of innovation with Storage Fusion will not sacrifice enterprise-grade requirements for application resilience. Backup and restore, HA, and DR are core competencies of Storage Fusion designed to meet BC requirements. This combined solution delivers a consistent application platform and experience across public clouds, including IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure, in addition to on-premises environments such as bare metal servers, VMware, IBM zSystems, LinuxONE, and IBM z/OS Container Extensions (IBM zCX).

Storage Fusion data services combined with Red Hat OpenShift is the platform for your application modernization strategy, whether building custom applications, running databases, or utilizing IBM Cloud Paks. Collaboration between Storage Fusion and Cloud Pak for Data have resulted in exclusive capabilities such as nondisruptive backups to help eliminate costly downtime. Storage Fusion is certified and continuously tested with all Cloud Pak offerings.

Key requirements

• Public clouds: Storage Fusion is generally supported on AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud
• On-premises:
  • vSphere 7 or 6.7
  • Bare metal infrastructures supported by Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
  • Linux on IBM zSystems, LinuxONE, and zCX
• Cloud Paks:
  • Storage Fusion is continuously tested and certified with all Cloud Paks
  • Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.3, or later, is required for nondisruptive backup with IBM Storage Fusion
• Red Hat OpenShift:
  • Storage Fusion requires Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10, or later
  • Storage Fusion does not include Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (sold separately)
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management:
  • DR with Storage Fusion Data Foundation requires Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management
  • Storage Fusion does not include Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (sold separately)
• For more specific requirement details, see the Storage Fusion documentation in IBM Docs.

Planned availability date: March 30, 2023