Chapter 2. New features

OpenShift Data Foundation supports deployment on VMware vSphere version 8.

Storage class with 2-way replication (replica-2) enables reduction in overhead with CephFS when data resiliency is not a primary concern. The 2-way replication reduces the amount of storage space used and decreases the level of fault tolerance.

For more information, see Using 2-way replication with CephFS.

Enabling key rotation when using the key management system (KMS) helps to achieve the security common practices that require periodic encryption key rotation.

For more information, see Enabling key rotation when using KMS.

OpenShift Data Foundation on Microsoft Azure platform supports Azure Key Vault for cluster-wide PV encryption. This Key Vault helps to use a local native solution for Azure instead of a third party tool.

For more information, see Creating an OpenShift Data Foundation cluster.

Multicloud Object Gateway credentials can be set manually using the NooBaa CLI commands.

For more information, see Setting Multicloud Object Gateway account credentials using CLI command.

With the OpenShift Data Foundation command line interface (CLI) tool, a Data Foundation environment can be effectively managed and troubleshot from a terminal. A compatible version of the CLI tool can be downloaded from the customer portal.