Installing IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud (ROKS)

If you are installing on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud (ROKS), you can follow any of the main online installation options for installing IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps. For installing on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, you need to replace any storage class configuration with your configured storage class for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.

Storage

IBM Cloud VPC Infrastructure Storage and IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure Storage are storage options provided by IBM Cloud which IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps can use for storage. For performance reasons, IBM Cloud VPC Infrastructure Storage is preferred as the storage solution for IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps.

IBM Cloud VPC Infrastructure Storage

When you are configuring storage as part of your IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps installation, use one of the following sets of storage classes, depending on whether you need to use OADP backup and restore:

OADP backup and restore not required:

  • storageClass: ibmc-vpc-block-10iops-tier
  • storageClassLargeBlock: ibmc-vpc-block-10iops-tier

OADP backup and restore required:

  • storageClass: ibmc-vpc-file-1000-iops
  • storageClassLargeBlock: ibmc-vpc-block-10iops-tier

To make these storage classes available on your cluster, you must enable the IBM Cloud file storage for VPC add-on. For more information, see Enabling the IBM Cloud File Storage for VPC cluster add-on in the IBM Cloud documentation.

For more information about storage for VPCs, see Setting up Block Storage for VPC and Storage Class Reference in the IBM Cloud documentation.

IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure Storage

When you are configuring storage as part of your IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps installation, use one of the following sets of storage classes, depending on whether you need to use OADP backup and restore:

OADP backup and restore not required:

  • storageClass: ibmc-block-gold
  • storageClassLargeBlock: ibmc-block-gold

OADP backup and restore required:

  • storageClass: ibmc-file-gold-gid
  • storageClassLargeBlock: ibmc-block-gold

For more information, see Setting up Block Storage for Classic and Setting up File Storage for Classic in the IBM Cloud documentation.

Note: ibmc-file-gold-gid does not have volume expansion enabled by default, which is required by IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps. For more information, see Storage class requirements.