IBM Fusion Access for SAN - TEST

Effortlessly migrate to OpenShift Virtualization while keeping your current storage. IBM Fusion Access for SAN ensures no compromises on performance or capacity – with smart failure recovery built in.

• Why choose Fusion Access for SAN?

  Access for SAN enables you to preserve existing Fibre Channel or iSCSI-based storage during migration from traditional hypervisors to OpenShift. Reduce disruption, extend ROI on storage, and modernize your stack confidently.

• How does it work?

  With native integration in IBM Fusion, virtual machines on OpenShift Virtualization access SAN-backed volumes with optimal performance. Intelligent path management and failover ensure resilient storage connectivity, even during host or path failures.

  
  

  All of this is based on IBM Scale storage technology, which has been in productive use for many years. Therefore, it's not only known to work, but also known to work within your environment
  - at scale and under pressure and even during failure.

• How to get it?

  IBM Fusion Access is a feature of IBM Fusion. You can get entitlements for IBM Fusion Access via any IBM Fusion purchase (which includes storage entitlements).

  
  

  By including IBM Fusion Access in the IBM Fusion ecosystem, we ensure our customers enjoy a complete experience, to get going right away without worrying how to piece it all together.
  This also ensures any questions regarding your persistant data can be answered quickly from a single source.

  VM - Core

  • Up to 128 cores
  • 8 TB per server storage
  • No backup storage

  If all you need is storage to run your VM workloads, this is the most cost-effective way to do so. It lacks advance capabilities like multi-cluster management, DR and Backup, but core storage operations are possible.

  Fusion Essentials for Virtualization

  VM - Complete

  • Up to 128 cores
  • 8 TB per server storage
  • 8 TB per server backup storage

  For VM-only workloads, this is the best solution. It offers a good price/value ratio while solving all storage-related problems, like Backup in an OpenShift-native way. Note: DR capabilities are currently a roadmap item.

  Fusion Advanced for Virtualization

  VM & Pod Mix

  • Up to 64 cores
  • 12 TB per cluster storage
  • 12 TB per cluster backup storage

  Welcome to the future! This choice allows you to run a mix of VMs and Containers and solve all data questions that might come up - this includes Backup and in the future DR.

  Fusion Advanced Managed Server​