Installing persistent storage

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Before you can install Concert, Concert Workflows, and Concert Data Apps, you must install persistent storage that is accessible from your Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster.

Installation phase

Preparing your cluster

Obtaining your IBM entitlement API key

Installing the Open Shift CLI

Preparing to run installs from a private container registry

Creating an image pull secret

Installing IBM® Concert

Who needs to complete this task?

Cluster administrator A cluster administrator must complete this task.

When to complete this task

One-time setup If you don't have a supported persistent storage solution for your cluster, you must complete this task before you can install Concert, Concert Workflows, and Concert Data Apps.

If you have a supported persistent storage solution, you can skip this task.

Before you begin

Before you set up persistent storage, ensure that you review the available planning information:

Section	What you need to know
Storage considerations	Review this information to identify: The types of storage that are supported by the platform The features and requirements for each type of storage The deployment environments that are supported for each type of storage
Storage requirements	Review this information to identify which type of storage each service supports. Depending on the services that you plan to install, you might need to install multiple types of persistent storage on your cluster.
Hardware requirements	Review this information to identify the minimum amount of storage that each service requires.

Procedure

To install persistent storage, follow the appropriate documentation to install persistent storage for your cluster:

Storage	Documentation links
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation	See the Product Documentation for Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation: Version 4.14 Version 4.15
IBM® Storage Fusion Data Foundation	To deploy IBM Storage Fusion, see Deploying IBM Storage Fusion in the IBM Storage Fusion documentation: Version 2.6 Version 2.7 To install the Data Foundation service, see IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation in the IBM Storage Fusion documentation: Version 2.6 Version 2.7
IBM Storage Fusion Global Data Platform	IBM Storage Fusion To deploy IBM Storage Fusion, see Deploying IBM Storage Fusion in the IBM Storage Fusion documentation: Version 2.6 Version 2.7 To install the Global Data Platform service, see IBM Storage Fusion Global Data Platform in the IBM Storage Fusion documentation: Version 2.6 Version 2.7 IBM Storage Fusion HCI System IBM Storage Fusion Global Data Platform is already installed.
IBM Storage Scale Container Native (with IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface)	See Installing the IBM Storage Scale container native operator and cluster in the IBM Storage Scale Container Native documentation: Version 5.1.7
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)	Managed OpenShift EBS is provisioned by default when you install Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA). Self-managed OpenShift EBS is provisioned by default when you install Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on AWS infrastructure.
IBM Cloud Block Storage	Managed OpenShift See Setting up Block Storage for VPC in the Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud® documentation. Self-managed OpenShift See Creating Block Storage for VPC volumes in the Virtual Private Cloud documentation.