Compatibility with Huawei Distributed Storage

Huawei CSI plug-in is compatible with Huawei OceanStor series distributed storage systems. The following table lists the supported storage versions.

Table 1 Supported Huawei distributed storage

Storage Product

Version

FusionStorage Block

8.0.1

OceanStor Pacific series

8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.5, 8.2.0

Huawei CSI plug-in supports the following features for Huawei distributed storage.

Table 2 Features supported by Huawei distributed storage and constraints

Feature

FusionStorage Block

OceanStor Pacific Series

Static Provisioning

SAN: iSCSI/SCSI

SAN: iSCSI/SCSI

NAS: DPC2/NFS 3/4.13

Dynamic Provisioning

Manage Provisioning1

Expand Persistent Volume4

Volumes created in Dynamic Provisioning or Manage Provisioning mode are supported.

Create VolumeSnapshot

SAN volumes created in Dynamic Provisioning or Manage Provisioning mode are supported.

Delete VolumeSnapshot

Supported

Only SAN volume snapshots are supported.

Restore VolumeSnapshot

Supported

Only SAN volume snapshots are supported.

Clone Persistent Volume

SAN volumes created in Dynamic Provisioning or Manage Provisioning mode are supported.

Raw Block Volume

Only SAN volumes are supported.

Only SAN volumes are supported.

Topology

Supported

Supported

Generic Ephemeral Inline Volumes

Supported

Supported

Access Mode

RWO/ROX/RWOP: supported by all types of volumes. RWOP is supported only by Kubernetes 1.22 and later versions.

RWX: supported only by Raw Block volumes and NFS volumes.

QoS

Supported

Supported

Soft and hard quotas

Not supported

Only NAS volumes are supported.

Storage multi-tenant

Not supported

Only NAS volumes are supported.

  • Note 1: Manage Provisioning is a volume management feature customized by Huawei CSI. This feature allows existing storage resources to be managed by Kubernetes. You are not allowed to manage a storage resource for multiple times and concurrently delete or create a storage resource.
  • Note 2: Only OceanStor Pacific series 8.1.2 and later versions support DPC. For details about whether the OSs supported by Huawei CSI support DPC, see the compatibility document of the corresponding product version.
  • Note 3: Only OceanStor Pacific series 8.1.2 and later versions support NFS 4.1.
  • Note 4: The provisioned PVC whose volumeType is lun and accessModes is ReadOnlyMany does not support capacity expansion.