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This feature is available as Early Access (EA) and should not be used in production.

Version: 3.6

Integrate PX-CSI with Portworx Enterprise

Portworx now provides a new implementation for consuming Flasharray and Flashblade Direct Access Volumes. The new implementation utilizes the existing PX-CSI product and integrates it into the Portworx Enterprise product. This integration provides a unified and streamlined approach to managing Everpure backend volumes through Kubernetes-native PVC, VolumeSnapshot, and Customer Resource.

If you do not integrate Portworx Enterprise with PX-CSI, you can continue to consume Flasharray and Flashblade Direct Access Volumes with the existing Portworx Enterprise features.

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PX-CSI 26.1.0 can be integrated with Portworx Enterprise 3.6.0. Currently, you cannot upgrade the PX-CSI version in Portworx Enterprise.

Enable PX-CSI within Portworx Enterprise​

To enable PX-CSI within Portworx Enterprise, add the following annotations to the StorageCluster spec during new Portworx installation or to an existing Portworx cluster:

metadata:
  annotations:
    portworx.io/pure-csi-integration: "true"

Additional Feature with PX-CSI​

The Portworx Volume names are usually integers but with the integration, the FADA and FBDA volume names can be a UUID or same as the PV name. Portworx Enterprise integration with PX-CSI provides the following additional features:

Enable Additional PX-CSI Features within Portworx Enterprise​

To enable support of these addtional features with Portworx Enterprise, add the following annotations to StorageClass when you Create a CSI storage class for encrypted PVCs and when you Setup StorageClass to authenticate requests

csi.storage.k8s.io/node-stage-secret-name: ${pvc.name}
csi.storage.k8s.io/node-stage-secret-namespace: ${pvc.namespace}

Limitation when PX-CSI is intergrated with Portworx Enterprise​

The following features that are available with Portworx Enterprise 3.6.0, will not be supported with the PX-CSI integration for FADA and FBDA volumes:

  • Custom disk tag support for FlashArray Direct Access: The support for FlashArray Direct Access Volume tagging feature is not available with the integration of PX-CSI. This feature enables custom metadata on FADA volumes that allows easier filtering and sorting of volumes, and adding more identifying information to them.
  • Storage of the FlashArray and FlashBlade secret in Vault: With PX-CSI integration, storing Everpure FlashArray and FlashBlade credentials in Vault is not supported. Credentials will have to be directly stored in the configuration files.
  • Support for the multiple secret providers: Configuring multiple secrets providers like using Kubernetes Secrets and Vault within a single deployment is not supported with PX-CSI integration.

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