Preparing to use the Cloud Pak for Data export and import utility

Important: IBM Cloud Pak® for Data Version 4.8 will reach end of support (EOS) on 31 July, 2025. For more information, see the Discontinuance of service announcement for IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.X.

Upgrade to IBM Software Hub Version 5.1 before IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8 reaches end of support. For more information, see Upgrading from IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8 to IBM Software Hub Version 5.1.

Before you use the Cloud Pak for Data export and import utility, you must create a persistent volume claim (PVC) for each Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform project (namespace) where you want to run the export and import utility.

Create a volume with ReadWriteMany (RWX) access. The following examples use the default or recommended storage classes. For details, see Storage requirements.

The recommended PVC name is export-import-pvc. This name is used in subsequent commands. If you use a different name, you must update the sample cpd-cli export-import commands to specify the appropriate PVC name for your environment.

OpenShift Data Foundation 
cat <<EOF |oc apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  namespace: ${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS} 
  name: export-import-pvc
spec:
  storageClassName: ocs-storagecluster-cephfs
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 200Gi
EOF
IBM Storage Fusion 
cat <<EOF |oc apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  namespace: ${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS}
  name: export-import-pvc
spec:
  storageClassName: ibm-spectrum-scale-sc
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 200Gi
EOF
IBM Storage Scale Container Native 
cat <<EOF |oc apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  namespace: ${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS}
  name: export-import-pvc
spec:
  storageClassName: ibm-spectrum-scale-sc
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 200Gi
EOF
Portworx 
cat <<EOF |oc apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  namespace: ${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS}
  name: export-import-pvc
spec:
  storageClassName: portworx-rwx-gp3-sc
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 200Gi
EOF
NFS 
cat <<EOF |oc apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  namespace: ${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS}
  name: export-import-pvc
spec:
  storageClassName: managed-nfs-storage  
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 200Gi
EOF
Amazon Elastic File System 
cat <<EOF |oc apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  namespace: ${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS}
  name: export-import-pvc
spec:
  storageClassName: efs-nfs-client
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 200Gi
EOF
IBM Cloud File Storage

The following example uses the ibmc-file-gold-gid storage class.

cat <<EOF |oc apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  namespace: ${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS}
  name: export-import-pvc
spec:
  storageClassName: ibmc-file-gold-gid
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 200Gi
EOF
NetApp Trident 
cat <<EOF |oc apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  namespace: ${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS}
  name: export-import-pvc
spec:
  storageClassName: ontap-nas
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 200Gi
EOF