IBM Storage Fusion (Advanced edition only)
IBM Storage Fusion software is available in IBM Cloud Pak for Applications Advanced. IBM Storage Fusion is a container-native, hybrid cloud storage platform that offers simplified deployment and data storage management for Kubernetes applications on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform.
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications Advanced includes limits on IBM Storage Fusion software:
- Workload storage support up to 12TB per cluster
- No usage time limit
- Fully supported by IBM
If additional capabilities are needed, IBM Storage Fusion software can be upgraded with additional purchase to IBM Storage Fusion Advanced:
- Advanced encryption with external key management
- Backup (online backup to alternate cluster)
- Data catalog
- Disaster recovery
- External mode deployment
- Global Data Platform (storage scale)
All editions of IBM Cloud Pak for Applications 5.3 support x86, Linux on Power, and Linux on IBM Z. Not all included software programs or tool components run on Linux on Power or Linux on IBM Z.
To learn more about IBM Storage Fusion software, see the IBM Storage Fusion software documentation.