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VSAN policy support for storage volume provisioning inside kubernetes
The vsphere users will have the ability to specify custom Virtual SAN Storage Capabilities during dynamic volume provisioning. You can now define storage requirements, such as performance and availability, in the form of storage capabilities during dynamic volume provisioning. The storage capability requirements are converted into a Virtual SAN policy which are then pushed down to the Virtual SAN layer when a storage volume (virtual disk) is being created. The virtual disk is distributed across the Virtual SAN datastore to meet the requirements.
For example, User creates a storage class with VSAN storage capabilities:
> kind: StorageClass
> apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
> metadata:
> name: slow
> provisioner: kubernetes.io/vsphere-volume
> parameters:
> hostFailuresToTolerate: "2"
> diskStripes: "1"
> cacheReservation: "20"
> datastore: VSANDatastore
The vSphere Cloud provider provisions a virtual disk (VMDK) on VSAN with the policy configured to the disk.
When you know storage requirements of your application that is being deployed on a container, you can specify these storage capabilities when you create a storage class inside Kubernetes.
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