Storage provisioning using Container Storage Interface driver

This section discusses the automatic storage provisioning in IBM Storage Fusion. Also, it provides references to storage class options for IBM Storage Fusion by using Container Storage Interface driver.

Note: IBM Storage Fusion 2.7.1 or higher supports IBM Storage Scale 5.1.9. IBM Storage Fusion 2.7 supports IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.7.

For IBM Storage Fusion, storage provisioning is automated through the Container Storage Interface driver. IBM Storage Fusion provides two choices for storage provisioning:

IBM Fusion Data Foundation: IBM Storage Fusion provides entitlement for IBM Fusion Data Foundation.

Remote IBM Storage Scale file system mount: Connect to an external IBM Storage Scale cluster to access an existing file system. Container workloads that run on OpenShift® can access existing data sets stored in the IBM Storage Scale file system and provision new persistent volumes backed by the storage from the remote IBM Storage Scale files system.

For more information on how to create Storage Classes in IBM Spectrum® Storage Scale Erasure Code Edition (ECE) by using Container Network Interface (CNI), see Storage class in IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface Driver documentation.

For more information about IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native, see Introduction to IBM Storage Scale Container Native. For more information about how you can provision Kubernetes persistent volumes from IBM Storage Scale ECE by using Container Network Interface (CNI), see IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface Driver documentation.