IBM Spectrum Fusion for HCI

IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI simplifies deployment and operation of Red Hat OpenShift in the data center

IBM Spectrum Fusion for HCI is a container-native hybrid cloud data solution for Kubernetes applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

It features an appliance form-factor, HCI along with integrated SDS to meet the storage requirements of stateful Kubernetes applications. It is designed to make it easy to deploy and manage container-native applications and their data on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

Spectrum Fusion HCI features:

• Bare-metal deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to eliminate cost overhead of hypervisors
• Integrated software-defined, cloud-native storage
• Integrated backup and restore of application-persistent volumes and metadata to both on-rack and off-rack backup targets
• High-performance, low latency NVMe local storage
• Production ready from power-up in as 5 hours
• Simple to scale compute and storage in the field
• Single point of contact for support of the complete solution

Spectrum Fusion HCI simplifies deployment and operation of Red Hat OpenShift in the data center

Spectrum Fusion for HCI is a container-native hybrid cloud data solution for Kubernetes applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

It features an appliance form-factor, HCI along with integrated SDS to meet the storage requirements of stateful Kubernetes applications. It is designed to make it easy to deploy and manage container-native applications and their data on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

Key requirements
It requires Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform which must be purchased separately by the client from Red Hat or an authorized Red Hat partner. The IBM Storage Modeller tool provides guidance for the number of Red Hat OpenShift entitlements that are required for a Spectrum Fusion HCI configuration.

Planned availability date: December 15, 2022