CSI Driver for Dell EMC PowerMax v1.0

I am excited to announce, that CSI Driver for PowerMax was released on July 23rd.

Container Storage Interface (CSI) specification was designed to provide an interface that Container Orchestrators (like Kubernetes) can use to provision storage. Storage vendors implement CSI Drivers that conform to the specification which provide storage services via this vendor neutral Container Storage Interface.

The CSI driver for PowerMax comes with the following high-level features

• CSI 1.0 compliant. After the thorough analysis, we have concluded that supporting CSI specification v.1.0 will provide our customers with the expected level of confidence and comfort for production workloads on enterprise-class storage.
• Support for persistent volume provisioning & deletion. CSI was introduced as a standard interface to connect storage arrays to the container orchestrators for provisioning persistent volumes (PVs) for the stateful applications. Both, static and dynamic provisioning modes, are supported.
• Supported access modes: SINGLE-NODE-WRITER & SINGLE-NODE-READER-ONLY.
• HELM charts installer. HELM charts are trending to be the de facto standard for software packaging and deployment on Kubernetes.
• Volume prefix setting for easy LUN identification in PowerMax. The names of volumes provisioned by the CSI Driver for PowerMax will start with the prefix, so the storage admin can easily identify which Kubernetes storage class this volume is linked to.
• Supportability Details
  • Supports CSI 1.0
  • Supports Kubernetes version 1.13.1, 1.13.2, and 1.13.3
  • Supports PowerMax - 5978.221.221
  • Supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6

It is important to note that CSI Driver for PowerMax is officially supported by Dell EMC. 

The driver is available on DockerHub and GitHub.

For more information, visit Dell EMC Storage Automation and Developer Resources