IBM Storage for Red Hat

IBM Storage for Red Hat delivers enhanced interoperability for IBM Storage Suite for Cloud Paks with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

IBM Storage provides cloud-native agility with the reliability, availability, and security to manage enterprise containers in production. As clients scale containerized applications beyond experimental or departmental use, the storage solutions from IBM enable mission-critical infrastructures that deliver shared-storage operational efficiency, price-performance leadership, and container data protection. Through integration with the automation capabilities of Kubernetes and IBM Cloud Paks, te company enables IT infrastructure and operations to improve developer speed and productivity, while delivering data reduction, DR, and data availability with enterprise storage.

IBM Storage Suite for Cloud Paks 1.1.0
Storage Suite for Cloud Paks delivers a faster, more reliable way to modernize and move to the cloud. It brings enterprise data services and persistent storage to your container environment with a comprehensive set of SDS offerings to satisfy any workload requirement.

Storage Suite for Cloud Paks is a single-priced product identifier (5737-M11) that contains the following IBM Storage and Red Hat Storage offerings from IBM:

• Spectrum Scale Data Management Edition
• Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud
• Cloud Object Storage System
• Spectrum Discover
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage
• Red Hat Ceph Storage

Storage Suite for Cloud Paks is a single software license that entitles you to use a combination of these product capabilities with flat cost per virtual processor core (VPC) licensing.

Based on the storage requirements in your environment, it has two options for capacity; Standard Edition and Capacity Edition. Standard Edition delivers up to 2TB of storage capacity per VPC licensed. Capacity Edition delivers up to 20TB of storage capacity per VPC licensed.

Key requirements
Storage Suite for Cloud Paks (5737-M11) requires one of the following IBM Cloud Pak offerings:

• Cloud Pak for Applications
• Cloud Pak for Integration
• Cloud Pak for Automation
• Cloud Pak for Security
  Cloud Pak for Data
• Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2, or later
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

In order to use IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud through Storage Suite for Cloud Paks, there is a co-requirement to enable Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud capacity in Storage Suite by ordering the following one-time part number available in Passport Advantage: D27KFLL- Enable SV for Cloud Per Storage Device LIC + SW S&S 12 MO.

Planned availability date: October 23, 2020