HPE Ezmeral

[MrIndiaPST]

Is it possible that, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric can be used as persistent storage for containers.

[Dave Olker]

Yes, we offer a CSI driver that allows Ezmeral Data Fabric to be used as persistent container storage.  For more information about the CSI driver and how to use it, refer to the documentation:

https://docs.ezmeral.hpe.com/datafabric-customer-managed/75/CSIdriver/csi_plan_and_install.html

https://docs.ezmeral.hpe.com/datafabric-customer-managed/75/CSIdriver/csi_overview.html

or the GitHub repository:

https://github.com/mapr/mapr-csi

[MrIndiaPST]

What exactly i would like to know is that whether kubernetes can use CSI to provision volumes in Nimble storage in Ezmeral runtime enviorment

[Dave Olker]

I have not personally tested the non-Ezmeral CSI driver, but it is located here:
https://github.com/hpe-storage/csi-driver

Additional documentation for this CSI driver can be found here:
https://scod.hpedev.io/csi_driver/index.html

One of the examples is specific to HPE Nimble storage in K8s:
https://github.com/hpe-storage/csi-driver/tree/master/examples/kubernetes/hpe-nimble-storage

Additionally there is a reference architecture using K8s and Nimble storage here:
https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50002388enw

Dave