About Cisco HyperFlex Kubernetes CSI
Cisco HyperFlex Container Storage Interface (CSI) is an out-of-tree container-based Kubernetes storage integration which is deployed and consumed through standard Kubernetes primitives such as Persistent Volume Claims and Storage Classes. Cisco HyperFlex CSI supports the following features:
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Dynamic creation and deletion of volumes
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Dynamic volume attach and detach
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Block access support
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Clone volume (when source volume is from the same Datastore)
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PV support with different filesystems (Ext4, Ext3, XFS)
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Volume space statistics reporting per CSI specs
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Multi-writer support (ReadWriteMany) for Block Mode only.
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Kubernetes 1.18, 1.19 support
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Kubernetes Cluster multitenancy target masking using dedicated initiator group
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Support for CSI 1.2 Spec APIs
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Volume resize support for block mode volumes and ext3, ext4, and xfs filesystem volumes. (expansion)
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CSI Plug-in installation and upgrade through Helm chart