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Version: 3.1

Enable IPv6 with Portworx

Supported configurations

IPv6 is supported by Portworx in the following configurations:

Operating systemKubernetes versionPortworx configuration
CentOS 7.9 Kernel: 3.10.0-1160.53.11.23.0
  • Portworx Operator based installation
  • Dual network - Management and Data traffic on a separate network
  • Air-gapped with all required images pushed to an internal registry
CentOS 7.6 Kernel: 5.7.12-11.20.0
  • Portworx Operator based installation
  • Single network - Management and Data traffic on a same network
  • Air-gapped with all required images pushed to an internal registry
Ubuntu 18.04.4 Kernel: v5.31.23.0
  • Portworx Operator based installation
  • Single network - Management and Data traffic on a same network
  • Air-gapped with all required images pushed to an internal registry

Supported features

Portworx supports the following features with IPv6:

  • All basic features of Portworx
  • Prometheus monitoring
  • Autopilot

Unsupported features

Portworx does not support the following features with IPv6:

  • Portworx installation with mixed mode (IPv4 & IPv6)
  • Portworx installation with Cloud Drives
  • Portworx installation with proxy
  • PX-Central License Server
  • PX-Backup
  • Asynchronous and Synchronous disaster recovery (DR)
  • Telemetry

Enable IPv6 support

To enable IPv6 support, perform the following steps:

  1. Specify your internal registry's Portworx operator image path in your Portworx operator spec. Replace the line image: portworx/px-operator:<version_number> in the generated Portworx operator spec with the path to your internal registry operator image. For example:

    image: <image_registry_hostname>/<repo_name>/<image_name>:<tag>
  2. If your internal registry is password protected, create a secret to store the credentials, then specify the internal registry access info in the Portworx Storage Cluster spec. For example:

    imagePullSecret: <secret_name>
    customImageRegistry: <image_registry_hostname>/<repo_name>
  3. Specify the oci-monitor path in the internal registry. For example:

    spec:
    image: <image_registry_hostname>/<repo_name>/<image_name>:<tag>
  4. For dual network deployments, specify network configuration. For example:

      network:
    dataInterface: <interface_name_for_data_traffic>
    mgmtInterface: <interface_name_for_mgmt_traffic>
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