IBM Storage Fusion Product Guide

IBM Storage Fusion Product Guide

by Jon Herd, Daniel Danner, Axel Koester
Released June 2023
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738460994

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Book description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication offers a short overview of IBM's integrated environment for container workloads, IBM Storage Fusion. The product comes in two variants, IBM Storage Fusion HCI System including all required hardware, and IBM Storage Fusion SDS (software-only) for deployment in public or private Clouds.

This paper has been updated with the 2.5.1 release only for IBM Storage Fusion and the 2.5.2 release of IBM Storage Fusion HCI System.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. Preface
    1. Authors
    2. Now you can become a published author, too!
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  4. Summary of changes
    1. June 2023, First Edition (minor update)
  5. Chapter 1. Why containers
    1. 1.1 Why move to containers when VMs seem just fine
    2. 1.2 Faster time to market in IT
    3. 1.3 Infrastructure as Code and Disaster Resiliency
    4. 1.4 Cyber Security and Cyber Resiliency
    5. 1.5 Zero-trust
    6. 1.6 Workload Scalability
    7. 1.7 Deconstruction silos with Data Bridging
  6. Chapter 2. Why IBM Storage Fusion
    1. 2.1 Why IBM Storage Fusion
    2. 2.2 Why Red Hat OpenShift on Bare Metal
    3. 2.3 Mission Critical Workloads in Containers
    4. 2.4 Getting Workloads into Production faster
    5. 2.5 Storage for Containers
    6. 2.6 Container Platform Resiliency and High availability
    7. 2.7 Data Protection for Containers
    8. 2.8 Red Hat OpenShift made easy: Day2 Operations with IBM Storage Fusion
  7. Chapter 3. Flavors of IBM Storage Fusion
    1. 3.1 Integration with legacy VM infrastructures
    2. 3.2 Three Tier Architecture System
    3. 3.3 Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
    4. 3.4 IBM Storage Fusion Options
      1. 3.4.1 IBM Storage Fusion Software Overview
      2. 3.4.2 IBM Storage Fusion HCI System Appliance Overview 
      3. 3.4.3 IBM Storage Fusion HCI System Software Overview
      4. 3.4.4 IBM Storage Fusion HCI System Hardware Overview
      5. 3.4.5 Scalability in HCI
      6. 3.4.6 Configuring the IBM Storage Fusion HCI System with IBM Storage Modeller
      7. 3.4.7 VMware versus bare metal 
      8. 3.4.8 Use cases for IBM Storage Fusion software
  8. Chapter 4. IBM Storage Fusion Terminology
    1. 4.1 Operators
    2. 4.2 Upgrading
    3. 4.3 Management UI
    4. 4.4 IBM Storage Scale Erasure Code Edition (ECE)
    5. 4.5 Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
    6. 4.6 IBM Storage Fusion Data Cataloging service
    7. 4.7 IBM Cloud Satellite
    8. 4.8 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM)
    9. 4.9 IBM Storage Protect Plus
    10. 4.10 Call Home for all IBM Storage Fusion HCI System
    11. 4.11 Active File Management (AFM)
    12. 4.12 AI Support (AI GPU)
    13. 4.13 Synchronous Storage Replication with Metro-DR
    14. 4.14 IBM Storage Fusion Reference Information and Links
      1. 4.14.1 New features and changes in 2.5.2
      2. 4.14.2 New features and changes in 2.5.1
      3. 4.14.3 New features and changes in 2.4
      4. 4.14.4 New features and changes in 2.3
      5. 4.14.5 New features and changes in 2.2.1
      6. 4.14.6 New features and changes in 2.2
      7. 4.14.7 New features and changes in 2.1.2
      8. 4.14.8 IBM Storage Fusion Useful Links  
  9. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Online resources
    3. Help from IBM
  10. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: IBM Storage Fusion Product Guide
  • Author(s): Jon Herd, Daniel Danner, Axel Koester
  • Release date: June 2023
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738460994