Compatibility matrix for IBM Storage Ceph 9.9.1

Use this information for products supported by IBM Storage Ceph 9.9.1.

The following tables list supported compatibility with IBM Storage Ceph 9.9.1.
Table 1. Supported host operating system
Host operating system Version Notes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • 9.8
  • 10.2
  • Standard lifecycle RHEL is included in the product.
  • FIPS mode is supported. For more information and access to FIPS builds, contact your IBM representative.

Use Ceph client packages included with any currently supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution. IBM and Red Hat support RHEL clients as part of the product subscription. Third party drivers can be utilized with the IBM Storage Ceph cluster, with client support from their respective vendor. Ideally, the Ceph client packages should correspond with the Ceph release that is deployed in the Ceph cluster that the client needs to connect to.

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.
Table 2. Supported products
Product Version Notes
Ansible

Supported in a limited capacity.

 Supported for upgrade and conversion tocephadm and for other minimal playbooks.
IBM Storage Ceph Plugin for vSphere 1.4.0 For more information aboutIBM Storage Ceph Plugin for vSphere, seeIBM Storage Ceph Plugin for vSphere documentation.
IBM Storage Ceph CSI driver 9.9.1 For more information aboutIBM Storage Ceph CSI driver, seeIBM Storage Ceph CSI driver documentation.
IBM Storage Ceph Storage Replication Adapter 1.1.0 For more information aboutIBM Storage Ceph Storage Replication Adapter, seeIBM Storage Ceph Storage Replication Adapter documentation.
IBM Storage Ceph Multi-Cluster Manager 1.0.0 For more information aboutIBM Storage Ceph Multi-Cluster Manager, seeIBM Storage Ceph Storage Multi-Cluster Manager documentation.
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 consuming Storage from Ceph N/A

IBM Storage Ceph is certified to provide storage for VMware with the NVMe/TCP protocol.

Support is available for VMware ESXi version 7.0U3 and later.

Use IBM Storage Ceph Plugin for vSphere to manage Ceph NVMe/TCP block storage through vCenter. For more information, see IBM Storage Ceph Plugin for vSphere documentation.

For more information about hardware requirements, see Minimum hardware requirements.

For more information, see the VMware Compatibility Guide for Ceph NVMe-oF Gateway and vSphere Client Plug In.
Ceph deployed on VMware N/A

IBM Storage Ceph supports deployments on the VMware hypervisor.

Use the same CPU core and RAM requirements for VM sizing as for baremetal deployments.

For production deployments:

  • It is not recommended to deploy virtualized Ceph on SDS-based storage, such as vSAN.
  • Direct storage access (RDM) must be provided to the VMs that are running the Ceph components.
  • Core Ceph redundant services (MONs, MGRs, and OSDs) must be deployed on physically different hypervisor hosts to avoid a single-point of failure (SPOF).

    For example, do not run all three Ceph MONs on the same hypervisor host.
Table 3. Analytics and AI
Client connector Version Notes
Apache Ranger RAZ (Ranger Authorized Proxy) CDP Private Cloud Base 7.3.1

S3-compatible datasource via Hadoop S3A.

Kerberos/SPNEGO authentication with Ranger policy enforcement.

Static S3 credentials are supported. STS AssumeRole is not supported.

Virtual-hosted-style S3 access is required.
Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud Base – Ranger RAZ 7.3.1

S3-compatible datasource via Ranger RAZ (Ranger Authorized Proxy).

Validated with static S3 credentials.

Virtual-hosted-style S3 access is required.
Dremio 25.2 or later S3-compatible datasource
Hadoop S3A 2.8.x, 3.2.x, and trunk None
IBM watsonx.data 1.0.3 or later None
Polaris Catalog 0.9.0 or later S3_COMPATIBLE allows Credential Vending (IAM/STS)
Snowflake N/A SaaS Cloud service
Splunk SmartStore 9.2.1 or later None
Starburst Enterprise N/A SaaS Cloud service
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
Cohesity DataProtect 7.1.2_u1 or later S3 Cloud Archive, Object Lock, Versioning
CommVault Platform v11.20 or later S3 target
FalconStor StorSafe Server 11.11 or later S3 target and Dedupe Data Repository
IBM Fusion Backup & Restore 2.6 and 2.7 S3 target
IBM Storage Defender Data Protect 7.1.2_u1 or later S3 Cloud Archive, Object Lock, Versioning
IBM Storage Protect 8.1.18 S3 target (Object Lock)
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)
  • Repository Primary Target Veeam v12
  • Repository Capacity Target with Immutability Veeam v12
 Supported onIBM Storage Ceph object storage with the S3 protocol
Veritas NetBackup Cloud Storage 10.x or later S3 target
Table 5. Independent software vendors
Independent software vendors Version Notes
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.
FalconStor StorGuard 9 None
IBM FileNet Content Manager 5.5.9 or later None
IBM Fusion Data Catalog 2.0.3 None
IBM Security Verify N/A SaaS Cloud service
IBM Storage Scale AFM to Cloud Object Storage 5.1.9.0 For more information, seeConfiguring > Configuring AFM to cloud object storage within theIBM Storage Scale documentation.
IBM TS7700C (Cloud) 8.60.0.115
  • S3 target
  • Cloud-Attach configuration only (feature code 5278)
  • Requires EXEC 402 1.02 or later
Komprise Intelligent Data Management 6.3.0 or later None
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) 5.1 SSE-KMS
Thales CipherTrust 2.8 SSE-KMS
Table 7. Supported identity providers (SSO)
Supported identity providers Version Notes
IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) N/A SaaS cloud service, Object STS/OIDC auth
IBM Security Verify N/A SaaS Cloud service
Keycloak 22.0 or later Dashboard SSO, Object STS/OIDC auth
Red Hat Build of Keycloak (RHBK) 26.2 or later Dashboard SSO, Object STS/OIDC auth
Red Hat Single Sign On 7.6.0 or later Dashboard SSO, Object STS/OIDC auth
Table 8. Supported S3 endpoints for Object Storage policy based archive and retrieval
S3 endpoint Version Notes
AWS S3 Glacier Storage Classes N/A S3 Glacier API
AWS S3 Standard Storage Classes N/A S3 API
IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) Standard Storage Class N/A S3 API
IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) Accelerated Archive Storage Class N/A S3 Glacier API
IBM Storage Deep Archive 1.1.0 or later S3 Glacier API (validated with 3 million objects per storage class)
IBM Storage Ceph 7.1 or later S3 API
PoINT Archival Gateway (Tape) 4.1 or later S3 API

For more information, see Policy based data archival and retrieval to S3 compatible platforms.