Prerequisites

Prerequisite that you need for a successful setup and installation of IBM Storage Fusion.

1. Go through the system requirements and confirm whether you meet all the requirements. For detailed information about system requirements, see System requirements.
2. For the prerequisites of individual IBM Storage Fusion services, go through their respective Before you begin section.
   For information about the services, see Managing services.
3. Ensure that you have the infrastructure and Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform 4.12 or 4.10. The IBM Storage Fusion 2.6.1 supports OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.
   Note: In IBM Storage Fusion, Data Foundation service and discovery is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.13, 4.12, or 4.10.

   For the supported version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6829067.
4. Obtain IBM Entitlement Registry Key.
   For the steps to obtain the key, see Obtaining entitlement key.
5. Create a pull secret.
   For the actual steps to generate, see Creating image pull secret.
   For actual steps to create a pull secret for installing IBM Storage Fusion on IBM cloud, see Creating image pull secret for IBM Cloud based installation.
6. If you plan to deploy IBM Storage Fusion on a OpenShift Container Platform cluster with a cluster wide proxy configured, then ensure you add these hosts to your allowlist:
   • registry.redhat.io
   • quay.io
   • cp.icr.io
   • icr.io
   • redhat.com
   • registry.connect.redhat.com
   • catalog.redhat.com
   • access.redhat.com
   • cloud.redhat.com
   • cdn02.quay.io
   • registry.access.redhat.com

   Note: This step is applicable only for on-premise deployments.