vSphere CSI Driver - Supported Features Matrix
The latest vSphere CSI Driver release is recommended for better stability and performance. Please refer to Compatibility Matrix for more detail.
| Feature | Supported vSphere CSI Driver Releases | vSphere 7.0u2 | vSphere 7.0u1 | vSphere 7.0 | vSphere 6.7U3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhanced Object Health in UI for vSAN Datastores | v1.0.3 to v2.2.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Dynamic Block PV support (Read-Write-Once Access Mode) |
v1.0.3 to v2.2.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Dynamic Virtual Volume (vVOL) PV support | v1.0.3 to v2.2.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Topology/Availability Zone support (beta) (Block Volume only) | v1.0.3 to v2.2.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Static PV Provisioning | v1.0.3 to v2.2.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| K8s Multi-node Control Plane support | v1.0.3 to v2.2.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| WaitForFirstConsumer (beta) | v1.0.3 to v2.2.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Offline Volume Expansion support (beta) (Block Volume only) | v2.0.0 to v2.2.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Encryption support via VMcrypt (Block Volume only) | v2.0.0 to v2.2.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Dynamic File PV support through vSAN 7.0 File Services on vSAN Datastores | v2.0.0 to v2.2.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| In-tree vSphere volume migration to CSI (beta) | v2.1.0 to v2.2.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Online Volume Expansion support (beta) (Block Volume only) | v2.2.0 | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Notes:
- We do not recommend
betafeatures for production use. Subsequent releases may introduce incompatible changes. - vSphere CSI driver does not support Windows based vCenter.
- vSphere CSI driver currently does not support vSAN stretch cluster.
- vSphere CSI driver and Cloud Native Storage does not currently support Storage DRS feature in vSphere.
- Offline/Online volume expansion requires a minimum Kubernetes version of 1.16+.
- Online volume expansion requires vCenter and all ESXi hosts to be on vSphere 7.0u2 build.
- Multi-node Control Planes only supports having a single CSI Pod being active at any time (replica = 1 in controller manifest).