Chapter 11. Supported and Unsupported features for IBM Power and IBM Z
| Features | IBM Power | IBM Z |
|---|---|---|
| Compact deployment | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Dynamic storage devices | Unsupported | Supported |
| Stretched Cluster - Arbiter | Supported | Unsupported |
| Federal Information Processing Standard Publication (FIPS) | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Ability to view pool compression metrics | Supported | Unsupported |
| Automated scaling of Multicloud Object Gateway (MCG) endpoint pods | Supported | Unsupported |
| Alerts to control overprovision | Supported | Unsupported |
| Alerts when Ceph Monitor runs out of space | Supported | Unsupported |
| Extended OpenShift Data Foundation control plane which allows pluggable external storage such as IBM Flashsystem | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| IPV6 support | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Multus | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Multicloud Object Gateway (MCG) bucket replication | Supported | Unsupported |
| Quota support for object data | Supported | Unsupported |
| Minimum deployment | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Regional-Disaster Recovery (Regional-DR) with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM) | Supported | Unsupported |
| Metro-Disaster Recovery (Metro-DR) multiple clusters with RHACM | Supported | Supported |
| Single Node solution for Radio Access Network (RAN) | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Support for network file system (NFS) services | Supported | Unsupported |
| Ability to change Multicloud Object Gateway (MCG) account credentials | Supported | Unsupported |
| Multicluster monitoring in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management console | Supported | Unsupported |
| Deletion of expired objects in Multicloud Object Gateway lifecycle | Supported | Unsupported |
| Agnostic deployment of OpenShift Data Foundation on any Openshift supported platform | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Installer provisioned deployment of OpenShift Data Foundation using bare metal infrastructure | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Openshift dual stack with OpenShift Data Foundation using IPv4 | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Ability to disable Multicloud Object Gateway external service during deployment | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Ability to allow overriding of default NooBaa backing store | Supported | Unsupported |
| Allowing ocs-operator to deploy two MGR pods, one active and one standby | Unsupported | Unsupported |
