vSphere CSI Driver - Supported Features Matrix
| Native K8s on vSphere 6.7U3 with CSI v1.0.2, v1.0.3, v2.0.0, v2.0.1, v2.1.0, v2.1.1 | Native K8s on vSphere 7.0 with CSI v2.0.0, v2.0.1, v2.1.0, v2.1.1 | Native K8s on vSphere 7.0u1 with CSI v2.1.0, v2.1.1 | vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere 7.0 – Supervisor Cluster | vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere 7.0u1 – Supervisor Cluster | vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere 7.0 – TKG Service ‘Guest’ Cluster | vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere 7.0u1 – TKG Service ‘Guest’ Cluster | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CNS UI Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Enhanced Object Health in UI | Yes (vSAN only) | Yes (vSAN only) | Yes (vSAN only) | Yes (vSAN only) | Yes (vSAN only) | Yes (vSAN only) | Yes (vSAN only) |
Dynamic Block PV support (Read-Write-Once Access Mode) |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Dynamic File PV support (Read-Write-Many Access Mode) |
No | Yes (vSAN only) | Yes (vSAN only) | No | No | No | No |
| Encryption support via VMcrypt | No | Yes (Block Volume) | Yes (Block Volume) | No | No | No | No |
| Dynamic Virtual Volume (vVOL) PV support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Offline Volume Expansion support (beta) | No | Yes (Block Volume) | Yes (Block Volume) | No | No | No | Yes (Block Volume) |
| Topology/Availability Zone support (beta) | Yes (Block Volume) | Yes (Block Volume) | Yes (Block Volume) | No | No | No | No |
| Static PV Provisioning | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| K8s Multi-node Control Plane support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
WaitForFirstConsumer (beta) |
Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Volume Health | No | No | No | No | Yes (Block Volume) | No | Yes (Block Volume) |
| In-tree vSphere volume migration to CSI (beta) | No | No | Yes | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable |
Notes:
- We do not recommend
betafeatures for production use. Subsequent releases may introduce incompatible changes. - vSphere CSI driver is not supported on Windows based vCenter.
- vSphere CSI driver is not supported on vSAN stretch cluster.
- vSphere CSI driver and Cloud Native Storage in vSphere does not currently support Storage DRS feature in vSphere.
- The dynamic creation of read-write-many (
RWX) and read-only-many (ROX) file based Persistent Volumes is only available in vSphere 7.0 through vSAN 7.0 File Services. - PV Encryption, offline volume expansion and Topology/AZ support are only available on block based Persistent Volumes. These features are not available with PVs backed by file shares.
- Offline volume expansion requires a minimum Kubernetes version of 1.16+.
- Multi-node Control Planes only supports having a single CSI Pod being active at any time (replica = 1 in controller manifest).
WaitForFirstConsumeris a K8s feature that delays volume binding until the Pod has been scheduled, and is used for Pod and PV placement.