VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere supports internal clusters and consuming external clusters.
Recommended versions:
- vSphere 6.7, Update 2 or later
- vSphere 7.0 or later.
For more details, see within the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform product documentation.
Note: If VMware ESXi does not recognize its devices as
flash, mark them as flash devices. Before IBM Storage Fusion
Data Foundation
deployment, refer to Mark Storage Devices as Flash.
Additionally, an internal cluster must meet both storage device requirements and have a storage
class providing either,
- vSAN or VMFS datastore via the vsphere-volume provisioner.
- VMDK, RDM, or DirectPath storage devices via the Local Storage Operator.