Chapter 4. External storage services

Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation can use IBM FlashSystems or make services from an external Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster available for consumption through OpenShift Container Platform clusters running on the following platforms:

The OpenShift Data Foundation operators create and manage services to satisfy Persistent Volume (PV) and Object Bucket Claims (OBCs) against the external services. External cluster can serve block, file and object storage classes for applications that run on OpenShift Container Platform. The operators do not deploy or manage the external clusters.