Features
Description of CSI Driver features
The CSI Drivers by Dell implement an interface between CSI (CSI spec v1.6) enabled Container Orchestrator (CO) and Dell Storage Arrays. It is a plug-in that is installed into Kubernetes to provide persistent storage using the Dell storage system.
Features | PowerMax | PowerFlex | Unity XT | PowerScale | PowerStore |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CSI Driver version | 2.10.1 | 2.10.1 | 2.10.1 | 2.10.1 | 2.10.1 |
Static Provisioning | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Dynamic Provisioning | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Expand Persistent Volume | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Create VolumeSnapshot | yes for LUN no for NFS |
yes | yes | yes | yes |
Create Volume from Snapshot | yes for LUN no for NFS |
yes | yes | yes | yes |
Delete Snapshot | yes for LUN no for NFS |
yes | yes | yes | yes |
Access Mode for volumeMode: Filesystem | RWO, RWOP ROX, RWX with NFS ONLY |
RWO, ROX, RWOP RWX with NFS ONLY |
RWO, ROX, RWOP RWX with NFS ONLY |
RWO, RWX, ROX, RWOP | RWO, RWOP ROX, RWX with NFS ONLY |
Access Mode for volumeMode: Block |
RWO, RWX, ROX, RWOP | RWO, RWX, ROX, RWOP | RWO, RWX | Not Supported | RWO, RWX, ROX, RWOP |
CSI Volume Cloning | yes for LUN no for NFS |
yes | yes | yes | yes |
CSI Raw Block Volume | yes | yes | yes | no | yes |
CSI Ephemeral Volume | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Topology | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Multi-array | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Volume Health Monitoring | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Storage Capacity Tracking | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Volume Limit | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Features | PowerMax | PowerFlex | Unity XT | PowerScale | PowerStore |
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Fibre Channel | yes | N/A | yes | N/A | yes |
iSCSI | yes | N/A | yes | N/A | yes |
NVMeTCP | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | yes |
NVMeFC | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | yes |
NFS | yes - SDNAS only (not eNAS) | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Other | N/A | ScaleIO protocol | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Supported FS | ext4 / xfs / NFS | ext4 / xfs / NFS | ext4 / xfs / NFS | NFS | ext3 / ext4 / xfs / NFS |
Thin / Thick provisioning | Thin | Thin | Thin/Thick | N/A | Thin |
Platform-specific configurable settings | Service Level selection iSCSI CHAP |
- | Host IO Limit Tiering Policy NFS Host IO size Snapshot Retention duration |
Access Zone NFS version (3 or 4);Configurable Export IPs |
iSCSI CHAP |
Auto RDM(vSphere) | Yes(over FC) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Description of CSI Driver features
Troubleshooting for CSI Drivers
Release Notes for all the CSI Drivers and deployment
Tests to validate CSI Driver Installation