External References

Product Documentation

Resource URL

IBM Storage Fusion 2.12 Documentation

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion/2.12

IBM Storage Fusion Knowledge Center

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion

OpenShift Data Foundation 4.18 Documentation

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_openshift_data_foundation/4.18

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 Documentation

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.18

Storage & Data Services

Resource URL

Ceph Storage Architecture

https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/architecture/

Ceph RBD (RADOS Block Device) Documentation

https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rbd/

Ceph RBD Differential Backups (rbd diff)

https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rbd/rbd-snapshot/#differential-backups

Multicloud Object Gateway (NooBaa)

https://www.noobaa.io/

ODF Storage Classes Reference

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_openshift_data_foundation/4.18/html/managing_and_allocating_storage_resources/managing-storage-classes

Virtualization

Resource URL

OpenShift Virtualization 4.18 Documentation

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.18/html/virtualization

Live Migration with Shared Storage

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.18/html/virtualization/live-migration

KubeVirt Project (upstream)

https://kubevirt.io/

Data Protection

Resource URL

IBM Fusion Data Protection Overview

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion/2.12?topic=overview-data-protection

Change Block Tracking (CBT) in Fusion

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion/2.12?topic=backup-change-block-tracking

Data Cataloging & AI

Resource URL

IBM Fusion Data Cataloging Service

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-software/2.12.0?topic=services-data-cataloging

DCS MCP Server Documentation

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-software/2.12.0?topic=autotagging-data-cataloging-mcp-server

Model Context Protocol Specification

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/

Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_openshift_lightspeed/

Exploring your Catalog with Natural Language through MCP (IBM Community)

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/paul-llamas-virgen/2026/03/06/exploring-your-fusion-data-catalog-with-nlp

OpenShift 4.21 & The Horizon (Module 5)

Autonomic Virtualization

Resource URL

Dynamic VM CPU Workload Rebalancing with Load Aware Descheduler

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2025/06/03/dynamic-vm-cpu-workload-rebalancing-load-aware-descheduler

Load Aware Rebalancing with OpenShift Virtualization

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2024/12/19/load-aware-rebalancing-openshift-virtualization

Enabling Descheduler Evictions on Virtual Machines (OKD 4.21)

https://docs.okd.io/4.21/virt/managing_vms/advanced_vm_management/virt-enabling-descheduler-evictions.html

Descheduler PSI Evaluation Repository

https://github.com/openshift-virtualization/descheduler-psi-evaluation

PSI - Pressure Stall Information (Linux Kernel)

https://docs.kernel.org/accounting/psi.html

Enabling Cross-Cluster Live Migration for VMs (OKD 4.21)

https://docs.okd.io/4.21/virt/live_migration/virt-enabling-cclm-for-vms.html

What’s New in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.21

https://redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-red-hat-openshift-virtualization-421

AI Inference: Gateway API Inference Extension & llm-d

Resource URL

Gateway API Inference Extension — Official Documentation

https://gateway-api-inference-extension.sigs.k8s.io/

Gateway API Inference Extension — GitHub

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api-inference-extension

Introducing Gateway API Inference Extension (Kubernetes Blog)

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/06/05/introducing-gateway-api-inference-extension

Deep Dive into the Gateway API Inference Extension (CNCF)

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04/21/deep-dive-into-the-gateway-api-inference-extension/

Red Hat OpenShift 4.20: Accelerating Virtualization and AI Innovation

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openshift-42-what-you-need-to-know

Run Model-as-a-Service for Multiple LLMs on OpenShift

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/03/24/run-model-service-multiple-llms-openshift

llm-d — Official Site

https://llm-d.ai/

llm-d — GitHub

https://github.com/llm-d/llm-d

Welcome llm-d to the CNCF (CNCF Blog)

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/03/24/welcome-llm-d-to-the-cncf-evolving-kubernetes-into-sota-ai-infrastructure/

IBM Content-Aware Storage

Resource URL

Content-Aware Storage for the Generative AI Era (IBM Research)

https://www.research.ibm.com/blog/content-aware-storage-generative-ai

IBM Fusion Content-Aware Storage: Making Data Better, Faster and Stronger

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/shu-mookerjee/2025/04/09/ibm-fusion-content-aware-storage

IBM Content-Aware Storage for RAG AI Workflows (NAND Research)

https://nand-research.com/research-note-ibm-content-aware-storage-for-rag-ai-workflows/

IBM Fusion CAS Outshines State-of-the-Art RAG Benchmark Suite

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/venkata-vamsikrishna-meduri/2026/02/08/evaluating-qa-accuracy-of-ibm-fusion-cas

Unlocking Dark Data at the Speed of Inference: IBM Fusion for Red Hat AI

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/matthew-kelm/2026/02/23/unlocking-data-inference-speed-ibmfusionredhatai

Building Enterprise LLMOps on IBM Fusion HCI with OpenShift AI

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/purnanand-kumar/2026/02/06/building-enterprise-llmops-on-ibm-fusion-hci

GPU Scheduling & AI Training

Resource URL

Dynamic Resource Allocation Goes GA in OpenShift 4.21

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/03/25/dynamic-resource-allocation-goes-ga-red-hat-openshift-421-smarter-gpu

AI Workloads — OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 Documentation

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.21/html-single/ai_workloads/index

Improve GPU Utilization with Kueue in OpenShift AI

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/05/22/improve-gpu-utilization-kueue-openshift-ai

Platform Release Notes

Resource URL

OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 Release Notes

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.21/html/release_notes/ocp-4-21-release-notes

Red Hat OpenShift 4.21: Smarter Scaling, Faster Migration, and AI-Powered Efficiency

https://redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openshift-421-smarter-scaling-faster-migration-and-ai-powered-efficiency

OpenShift Virtualization 4.21 Release Notes

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.21/html/virtualization/release-notes

Operator Lifecycle & Deployment

Resource URL

Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM)

https://olm.operatorframework.io/

Red Hat Marketplace

https://marketplace.redhat.com/

ArgoCD / OpenShift GitOps

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_openshift_gitops/

Workshop Infrastructure

Resource URL

Showroom Deployer (Helm chart)

https://github.com/rhpds/showroom-deployer

Showroom Content Template

https://github.com/rhpds/showroom_template_default

Field-Sourced Content Template

https://github.com/rhpds/field-sourced-content-template

Red Hat Demo Platform (RHDP)

https://demo.redhat.com/

Antora Documentation Framework

https://docs.antora.org/