Fusion Essentials

Fusion Essentials refers to the restricted use of IBM Fusion that is defined in the license terms of a growing list of IBM Software products.

The restricted use terms entitles the user to deploy the Fusion Data Foundation service of IBM Fusion within the same cluster as the licensed IBM Software product.

Fusion Essentials allows up to 12 TB of capacity for use by the licensed IBM Software product. It is fully supported by IBM with support requests initiated through the licensed IBM Software product.

IBM Fusion, included with IBM Software, allows application owners to get deployed immediately while having confidence to add additional capacity and/or capabilities required as needs grow to large-scale mission-critical deployments.

Included with Fusion Essentials:
  • Fusion Data Foundation internal mode deployment
  • Up to 12 TB of usable capacity
  • Compression
  • Cluster-wide encryption
  • Cross-availability zone HA
  • Fully supported by IBM

For additional functionality, users can purchase a full IBM Fusion Advanced license.

Require Fusion Advanced license:
  • Capacity requirements of more than 12 TB per cluster
  • External mode deployment
  • Backup
  • Disaster recovery
  • Global Data Platform (IBM Storage Scale)
  • Data catalog
  • Advanced encryption with external key management
  • Usage with applications beyond the licensed IBM software
Get started with Fusion Essentials:
  1. Deploy IBM Fusion Operator in your cluster. For more information about the installation, see Deploying IBM Fusion.
  2. Deploy and configure the Fusion Data Foundation service in your cluster. For more information about the Fusion Data Foundation installation, see Data Foundation.