Supported features

IBM Storage Scale container native with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform supports the following features:

• IBM Storage Scale node labels to establish node affinity.
• Automated client-only cluster creation
• Automated remote file system mount for IBM Storage Scale Storage cluster
• Automated local file system creation that uses shared disks or volumes which are attached to Red Hat OpenShift nodes (as technology preview)
• Integrated IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for application persistent storage
• Automated deployment of IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver
• IBM Storage Scale container native client cluster node expansion on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
• Cluster monitoring by using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform liveness and readiness probe
• Call home
• Performance data collection
• Storage cluster encryption
• Rolling or parallel upgrade
• Automated IBM Storage Scale performance monitoring bridge for Grafana
• File audit logging (FAL)
• Compression
• Quotas on the storage cluster
• ACLs on the storage cluster
• ILM support on the storage cluster
• File clones on the storage cluster
• Snapshots on the storage cluster
• TCP/IP network connectivity among cluster nodes
• Direct storage attachment on s390x, x86_64, and ppc64le (Power) servers
• Automatic quorum selection is Kubernetes topology aware.
• Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure nodes can be utilized to schedule GUI, pmcollector, grafanabridge, and IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface (CSI) sidecar pods (external-attacher, external-provisioner, external-snapshotter, and external-resizer).