Summary

With IBM Fusion and IBM Fusion Data Foundation, organizations can add persistence storage to their Kubernetes based container infrastructure and build stateful applications.

This document helps ensure that your solution meets best-practices and recommendations when deployed on IBM Z and IBM® LinuxONE or within z/OS Container Extensions (zCX). The Quality Engineering teams (QE) at Red Hat and IBM have tested and validated the considerations that are described in this document. This helps ensure organizations who are seeking to operationalize this reference architecture quickly can be assured that all options represented are both fully tested as well as fully supported.

Planning and Architecture provides a solid understanding of the overarching concepts and architectural principles of IBM Fusion Data Foundation. In addition, it provides details of how IBM Fusion Data Foundation is positioned within IBM’s strategic storage offering IBM Fusion. This is the essential context technical leadership needs to have to guide real-life implementation projects toward a successful solution.

Design considerations discusses the key design considerations in detail. Thus, enabling the technical teams to make the correct decisions on networking, storage, installation, and sizing options based on a solid understanding of the concepts of IBM Fusion Data Foundation. This also helps to avoid mistakes, which need cumbersome mitigation in later stages of a project.

Operational considerations focuses on aspects of "Day 2" operations like security, backup, and performance tuning. This enables you to become productive quickly and helps to make your solution reliable and secure right from the beginning.

As IBM Fusion Data Foundation evolves in the future and provides new capabilities, this document is updated regularly to include the latest best practices and considerations.

The information that is provided in this document is intended to encourage you to proceed with your IBM Fusion Data Foundation based projects and deliver successful solutions to your customers.