Overview

Managed storage infrastructure for Red Hat OpenShift

IBM Spectrum® Fusion is the foundation for container-native applications running on Red Hat OpenShift, which provides enterprise grade data-storage and protection services.

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Benefits

Organize and optimize resources

Get file, volume and object access across disparate data sources — including traditional storage, IBM storage, as well as cloud and edge.

Enterprise storage and data services

Publish storage profiles and protection policies as automated deployment models designed for seamless use.

Access data without data movement

Provide data accessibility both universally across platforms and locally across the information estate.

Automate data protection

Provision data using policies and protection methods stretching from local disc to remote to cloud — even to tape.

Adjust resources nondisruptively

Shift data from one repository type to another without the need to refactor the data.

Adopt new services nondisruptively

Roll any Spectrum Fusion updates into the data services automatically and without intervention.

Use cases

Red Hat OpenShift backup and recovery

Integrate workflows: Container Granular, application consistent, NameSpace aware backup and recovery.

CI/CD pipelines acceleration

Quickly and reliably recreate your production environment and accelerate application testing with fewer configuration errors.

Product overview

IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI

Purpose-built, hyper-converged architecture designed to deploy bare metal Red Hat OpenShift container management and deployment software alongside IBM Spectrum Fusion software. For consistent and rapid deployment and management.

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Deployment options

Software-defined storage

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IBM Spectrum Fusion (software)

Get software-defined storage management software with protection, replication, backup and caching elements. Can run on existing hardware resources.

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Hyper-converged infrastructure

Server for Spectrum Fusion

IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI

Get the most efficient start with Red Hat OpenShift. Free up existing on-prem resources and benefit from IBM Spectrum Fusion.

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