New features in 4.18

Each release offers new functionalities and improvements. Read this information for a high-level summary of the new features introduced in the Fusion Data Foundation 4.18 release.

More recipe capabilities for RBD-based applications

The capabilities of recipes are enhanced to support many more RBD-based applications.

For more information, see Enrolling a sample discovered application for disaster recovery protection.

Storage quota for provider mode clients

During the installation of the Fusion Data Foundation client in provider mode you can allocate the storage quota to control the storage quota usage for the Fusion Data Foundation client.

For more information, see Installing Fusion Data Foundation on a Hosted Control Plane cluster.

Versioning for Multicloud Object Gateway bucket replication

Versioning in Multicloud Object Gateway (MCG) enables object data collaboration between two different locations or replication of object data from NooBaa on-prem to NooBaa on AWS, NooBaa to NooBaa, on any platform. This allows opting in for synchronizing versioning.

For more information, see Synchronizing versions in Multicloud Object Gateway bucket replication.

Bucket notification in Multicloud Object Gateway

Bucket notifications allow for a performant data pipeline creation. With this, it becomes easy to create a data flow where newly ingested data can be immediately detected and further processed. This is specifically important in AI/ML use cases.

For more information, see Bucket notification in Multicloud Object Gateway.

Support for RADOS namespace for external mode

Fusion Data Foundation supports RADOS namespace for its external mode clusters. This helps to improve performance in multi-tenants scenarios. By creating RADOS namespaces with restricted access per tenant on cephBlockPools will provide an efficient way of serving RBD storage.

For more information, see Configuring with an external Ceph cluster.