IBM Storage Fusion HCI

IBM Storage Fusion HCI simplifies deployment and operation of Red Hat OpenShift in the data center

IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI is rebranded to IBM Storage Fusion HCI.

IBM reveals the strength of the storage portfolio through the IBM Storage brand name. Spectrum Fusion HCI is being rebranded to Storage Fusion HCI 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.

Storage Fusion HCI
It’s is a container-native hybrid cloud data solution for Kubernetes applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. It features an appliance form-factor, HCI along with integrated SDS to meet the storage requirements of modern, stateful Kubernetes applications. It is designed to make it easy to deploy and manage container-native applications and their data on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

IBM Storage Fusion HCI features include:

• Bare-metal deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to eliminate cost overhead of hypervisors
• Integrated software-defined, cloud-native storage
• Integrated backup and restore of application-persistent volumes and metadata to both on-rack and off-rack backup targets
• High-performance, low latency NVMe local storage
• Production ready from power-up in 5 hours
• Simple to scale compute and storage in the field
• Single point of contact for support of the complete solution

Key requirements:
Storage Fusion HCI requires Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform which must be purchased separately by the client from Red Hat or an authorized Red Hat partner. The IBM Storage Modeller tool provides guidance for the number of Red Hat OpenShift entitlements that are required for an Storage Fusion HCI configuration

Planned availability date: May 5, 2023