Global Data Platform
From the Services page, enable the IBM Storage Fusion Global data platform service.
About this task
Important:
- This service enablement applies Machine Config Operator changes in Red Hat® OpenShift®, and as a result, all compute nodes get restarted.
- For more information about deployments and their supported IBM Storage Fusion services in IBM Storage Fusion, see IBM Storage Fusion Services support matrix.
- To enable GDP on the infra node, manually create the ScaleCluster CR and set the infraNode:true. For more information, see Configuring Global Data Platform service on infrastructure nodes.
Procedure
What to do next
Important: Apply the mandatory IBM Storage Fusion 2.8.0 hotfix on top of 2.8.0 version. For more information about how to download the hotfix and
the scope of issues covered in the hotfix, see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7157065
IBM
Storage Fusion 2.8.0 hotfix.
- to Remote file systems page of the user interface and connect to remote file systems. For the procedure to connect to remote file systems, see Connecting to remote IBM Storage Scale file systems.
- To consume the remote file system by using Global Data Platform, see Static provisioning of Persistent Volume in filesystem and Dynamic provisioning of Persistent Volume in filesystem.
- You can now install other available IBM Storage Fusion services.