Compatibility matrix

Use this information for products supported by IBM Storage Ceph 8.0.

The following tables list supported compatibility with IBM Storage Ceph 8.0.
Table 1. Supported host operating system
Host operating system Version Notes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
  • Standard lifecycle RHEL 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.
Note:
  • For Client RPM packages, IBM Storage Ceph 8.0 only supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
  • The cluster bootstrap node must be Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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.

 None
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 N/A
  • 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.
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 Plugin for vSphere 1.1.0 or later For more information about IBM Storage Ceph Plugin 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 None
IBM watsonx.data 1.0.3 and later None
Snowflake N/A SaaS Cloud service
Starburst Enterprise N/A SaaS Cloud service
Splunk SmartStore 9.2.1 or later None
Weka Data Platform 3.12.2 None
Table 4. Supported products for IBM Storage Ceph as a backup target
IBM Storage Ceph as a backup target Version Notes
CommVault Platform v11.20 or later S3 target
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.5 None
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 None
Rubrik Cloud Data Management (CDM) 3.2 or later None
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 Cloud Storage 10.x or later S3 target
FalconStor StorSafe Server 11.11 or later S3 target and Dedupe Data Repository
IBM Storage Defender Data Protect 7.1.2_u1 or later S3 Cloud Archive, Object Lock, Versioning
Cohesity DataProtect 7.1.2_u1 or later S3 Cloud Archive, Object Lock, Versioning
Table 5. Independent software vendors
Independent software vendors Version Notes
IBM Spectrum Discover 2.0.3 None
IBM Security Verify N/A SaaS Cloud service
IBM FileNet Content Manager 5.5.9 or later None
FalconStor StorGuard 9 None
IBM TS7700C (Cloud) 8.60.0.115
  • S3 target
  • Cloud-Attach configuration only (feature code 5278)
  • Requires EXEC 402 1.02 or later
CTERA 8.x
  • CTERA Direct IO.

    Verified compatibility with IBM Storage Ceph for direct replication of objects from CTERA Edge Filers using S3 Pre-Signed URLs.

  • CTERA Vault.

    Support for write-once, read-many (WORM) volumes with IBM Storage Ceph using S3 Object Lock. Objects are retained according to the defined retention policies configured in CTERA Vault.
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
Keycloak 22.0 or later Dashboard SSO, Object STS/OIDC auth