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Cisco announces the end-of-life and end of support dates for Cisco HyperFlex Container Storage Interface (HXCSI).
Software maintenance for all releases of HXCSI will end on June 5, 2023. No bug fixes, patches or maintenance releases will be provided for any HXCSI release after that date. The last date of support for HXCSI will also occur on June 5, 2023.
Customers currently running HXCSI can continue to use HyperFlex Data Platform as a storage provider for block-based persistent volumes using the VMware vSphere Container Storage Plugin as the alternative CSI. vSphere Container Storage Plugin 3.0 offers a near overlap of the essential features provided by HXCSI 1.2(3a), which is the latest version. See below for a feature comparison of HXCSI 1.2(3a) and vSphere Container Storage Plugin 3.0.
| Features |
HXCSI 1.2(3a) |
vSphere Container Storage Plugin 3.0 |
| Block persistent volumes (PV) |
Yes, PVs provisioned as iSCSI LUNs in the HX iSCSi target |
Yes, PVs provisioned as First Class Disks in NFS datastores from HX |
| Volume access mode |
ReadWriteOnce, ReadWriteMany |
ReadWriteOnce |
| Dynamic persistent volume provisioning |
Yes |
Yes |
| Filesystem support for block PVs |
Ext3, Ext4, XFS |
XFS |
| Online volume expansion |
Yes |
Yes |
| Volume snapshots |
Yes |
Yes |
| Volume clones |
Yes |
Yes, by provisioning a new PV from volume snapshot |
| HX software encryption support |
Yes |
Yes, by provisioning PV in HX datastore with encryption enabled |
Refer to VMware documentation for more information on vSphere Container Storage Plugin. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere-Container-Storage-Plug-in/3.0/vmware-vsphere-csp-getting-started/GUID-C44D8071-85E7-4933-83EA-6797518C1837.html
If existing persistent volumes provisioned by HXCSI contain data which needs to be preserved, that data will need to be migrated to new persistent volumes provisioned by vSphere CSI using an out-of-band mechanism, such as through the application or through restoring from backups.
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