Compatibility matrix

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Use this information for products supported by IBM Storage Ceph 7.1.

The following tables list supported compatibility with IBM Storage Ceph 7.1.
Table 1. Supported host operating system
Host operating system Version Notes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.6, 9.5, 9.4, 8.10 Standard lifecycle 9.4 is included in the product.
Important:
  • All nodes in the cluster and their clients must use the supported OS version(s) to make sure 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.
Note: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 deployments require a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 with bootstrap node.
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

Register only with the Content Delivery Network (CDN) is supported. Registering with Red Hat Network (RHN) is deprecated and not supported.
VMware N/A
  • VMware is supported where each daemon is provided with dedicated RAM and the CPU resources match the bare-metal requirements.
  • With VMware, directly attached storage is required.
    Note: If using, IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation with disaster recovery SAN hardware could be used.
Note: Make sure that any virtualized cluster deployment can economically scale out.
The following are VMware certified.
  • Ceph NVMe-oF gateway.
  • IBM Storage Ceph Plugin for vSphere
For more information, see the VMware Compatibility Guide for Ceph NVMe-oF Gateway and IBM Storage Ceph Plugin for vSphere.
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.
IBM Storage Ceph Plug-in for vSphere 1.0.0

For more information about IBM Storage Ceph Plug-in for vSphere, see IBM Storage Ceph Plugin for vSphere documentation.
Table 3. Analytics and AI
Client connector Version Notes
Hadoop S3A 2.8.x, 3.2.x, and trunk
IBM watsonx.data 1.0.3 and later
Snowflake N/A SaaS Cloud service
Starburst Enterprise N/A SaaS Cloud service
Splunk SmartStore 9.2.1 or later
Weka Data Platform 3.12.2
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 8.1.18 S3 target (Object Lock)
IBM Fusion Backup & Restore 2.6 and 2.7 S3 target
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
FalconStor StorSafe Server 11.11
IBM Storage Defender Data Protect 7.1.2_u1 or later S3 Cloud Archive
Cohesity DataProtect 7.1.2_u1 or later S3 Cloud Archive
Table 5. Independent software vendors
Independent software vendors Version Notes
IBM Spectrum Discover 2.0.3
IBM Security Verify N/A SaaS Cloud service
IBM FileNet Content Manager 5.5.9 or later
FalconStor StorGuard 9
Table 6. External key managers
External key manager Version Notes
Hashicorp Vault 1.12 or later SSE-KMS, SSE-S3
IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM/SKLM) 4.1 SSE-KMS
Thales CipherTrust 2.8 SSE-KMS
Table 7. Supported identity providers (SSO)
Supported identity providers Version Notes
Red Hat Single Sign On 7.6.0 or later Dashboard SSO, Object STS/OIDC auth
IBM Security Verify N/A SaaS Cloud service
Keycloack 22.0 or later Dashboard SSO, Object STS/OIDC auth