Compatibility matrix

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Use this information for products supported with IBM Storage Ceph 7.

Table 1. Support host operating system
Host operating system Version Notes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2
  • Standard lifecycle 9.2 is included in the product.
  • FIPS mode is supported.
Important:
  • All nodes in the cluster and their clients must use the supported OS version(s) to ensure that the version of the ceph package is the same on all nodes. Using different versions of the ceph package is not supported.
  • Ubuntu is not supported as a deploying host operating system.
Table 2. Supported products
Product Version Notes

Ansible

Supported in a limited capacity.

Supported for upgrade and conversion to Cephadm and for other minimal playbooks.

Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation

See the Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Supportability and Interoperability Checker for detailed external mode version compatibility.

Red Hat Satellite

6.x

Only registering with the Content Delivery Network (CDN) is supported. Registering with Red Hat Network (RHN) is deprecated and not supported.
VMware
  • VMware is supported where each daemon is provided with dedicated RAM and CPU resources matching bare-metal requirements.
  • When using VMware, directly attached storage is required.
    Note: If using IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation with disaster recovery SAN hardware may be used.
Note: Ensure that any bare-metal deployment clusters can economically scale out.
For more information about hardware requirements, see Minimum hardware requirements.

For more information about IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation, see IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation within IBM Storage Fusion documentation.
Table 3. Supported client connector
Client connector Version

S3A

2.8.x, 3.2.x, and trunk
Table 4. Supported products for IBM Storage Ceph as a backup target
IBM Storage Ceph as a backup target Version Notes

CommVault

Cloud Data Management v11

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

10.1.5

IBM Spectrum Protect server

8.1.8

NetApp AltaVault

4.3.2 and 4.4

Rubrik Cloud Data Management (CDM)

3.2 onwards

Trilio, TrilioVault

3.0

S3 target

Veeam (object storage)

Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4

Supported on IBM Storage Ceph object storage with the S3 protocol

Veritas NetBackup for Symantec OpenStorage (OST) cloud backup

7.7 and 8.0
Note: IBM Storage Ceph 7 supports Red Hat Linux 8.7 and 8.8 with bootstrap node in supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x versions.
Table 5. Independent software vendors
Independent software vendors Version

IBM Spectrum Discover

2.0.3

WekaIO

3.12.2
IBM Security Verify -
Watson X.Data 1.0.3 and onwards