New features in 4.17

Each release offers new functions and improvements. Review this information for a high-level summary of the new features in the IBM Fusion Data Foundation 4.17 release.

New features in 4.17 are as follows:

Disaster recovery solution

Disabling DR for a given workload

Disaster recovery (DR) can be disabled for a given workload for managed applications and discovered applications through the OpenShift Web Console. For more information, see Disabling disaster recovery for a disaster recovery enabled application.

Disaster recovery protection for cloned and restored RBD volumes

Disaster recovery protection can be enabled for cloned and restored RADOS Block Device (RBD) volumes during DR policy creation for Regional-DR. For more information, see Disaster recovery protection for cloned and restored RBD volumes.

Setting up DR in clusters with overlapping pod and service CIDR

The ODF CLI tool can be used on existing OpenShift deployments with overlapping pod and service CIDR to verify the clusters meet the prerequisites for peering. The tool verifies the two clusters have non-overlapping service and pod Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR). For more information, see Requirements for enabling Regional-DR.

VM DR protection for cloned volume

DR protection is simplified and automatically decouples parent and child so that each one can independently be DR protected. This eliminates the dependency on the parent volume and VM and its DR status.

VMware vSphere8 support

Fusion Data Foundation supports deployment on VMware vSphere version 8. For more information, see VMware vSphere.

Storage class with 2-way replication for CephFS

The storage class with 2-way replication (replica-2) enables reduction in overhead with CephFS when data resiliency is not a primary concern. The 2-way replication reduces the amount of storage space that is used and decreases the level of fault tolerance. For more information, see 2-way replication with CephFS.

Key rotation for PV encryption

Enabling key rotation when using the key management system (KMS) helps to achieve the security common practices that require periodic encryption key rotation. For more information, see Enabling key rotation for Kubernetes authentication.

Azure Key Vault support on Fusion Data Foundation KMS

Fusion Data Foundation on the Microsoft Azure platform supports Azure Key Vault for cluster-wide PV encryption. This Key Vault helps to use a local native solution for Azure instead of a third-party tool. For more information, see Creating a storage class for persistent volume encryption.

Manual setting of Multicloud Object Gateway credentials to an account

Multicloud Object Gateway (MCG) credentials can be set manually by using the NooBaa CLI commands. For more information, see Setting Multicloud Object Gateway account credentials using CLI command.

Downloading the ODF CLI tool from the user interface

With the ODF CLI tool, a Data Foundation environment can be effectively managed and troubleshot from a terminal. A compatible version of the CLI tool can be downloaded from the customer portal.