IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks

Secure persistent storage resources

IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks provides the combined power of open source with Red Hat data services and award-winning IBM software-defined storage offerings designed to simplify the deployment of IBM Cloud Pak solutions while enabling a reliable and efficient storage foundation across your hybrid cloud.

Benefits

IBM certified

Storage is fully tested with Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Pak® solutions to provide enterprise data services to business-critical environments.

Simplified approach

Deliver a standardized and trusted approach for the deployment, use, monitoring and management of persistent storage for your OpenShift environment.

Scalability

Simply deploy data resources, scaling up or down without impact to your business. Grow, shrink and redeploy depending on application or workload needs.

Agility

Enable data mobility when and where you need it. Use a single Container Storage Interface (CSI) that works with all container orchestration systems.

Flexibility

Maximize data resources with IBM Cloud® Object Storage, products from IBM Spectrum Storage™ Suite plus Red Hat Ceph Storage and OpenShift Data Foundation.

Consistency

Create a consistent Red Hat OpenShift experience for building and managing containerized applications with persistent storage and data services.

Features

Enable software-defined storage for Red Hat OpenShift

Build any Red Hat OpenShift container environment with a complete software-defined storage infrastructure foundation and the data resources you choose.

Choose your data resources

Choose file, block or object storage for your container data services and deploy new data resources where and when they’re needed.

Optimize cloud deployments

Each IBM Cloud Pak includes containerized IBM middleware on top of a common integration layer, helping to reduce development time and operational expenses.

Gain support for unstructured data

The CSI open initiative provides an easy-to-deploy, self-service way to provision data and provides an optimized parallel data path to high performance storage.

Quickly deploy persistent data resources

Abstract storage configuration complexities from applications and provision persistent storage based on classes of storage, predefined to comply with business SLAs.

Speed up container storage provisioning

IBM supports the CSI open initiative for its block and file offerings: IBM Storage Suite for Cloud Paks, Spectrum Scale, IBM FlashSystem and DS8900F.

Simplify setup with a default storage layer for persistent data and get an open, faster and more secure way to move core business applications to the cloud.

Deliver infrastructure services easily and efficiently

Combine with IBM Lab Services to get the infrastructure services you need to help build the foundation of a smart enterprise that empowers your business.

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Frequently asked questions

Storage Suite for Cloud Paks can be deployed with perpetual and committed term licenses priced by a virtual processor core (VPC) metric. The Suite is available in two options: Standard Edition and Capacity Edition. All part numbers have a VPC entitlement conversion to capacity.

Storage Suite for Cloud Paks delivers storage flexibility for IBM Cloud Paks and Red Hat OpenShift deployments. The Suite is simple to consume and offers multiple storage options to build out a secure, agile infrastructure for your hybrid multicloud environment.