Hardware and software requirements

Hardware and software requirements for IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface driver.

The following hardware and software requirements must be met for using IBM Spectrum® Scale Container Storage Interface driver at your site:
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® CoreOS (RHCOS) support (x86_64 ppc64le, s390x architecture) when installed in combination with IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native storage access. For information on the instruction sets, see IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access.
  • Red Hat OpenShift® 4.6 and 4.7 (x86_64 architecture) through RHEL worker nodes
  • Vanilla Kubernetes version 1.19, 1.20, and 1.21 (x86_64 and ppc64le architecture)
  • IBM Spectrum Scale version 5.1.0.1 or later.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 7.7, 7.8, and 7.9 (x86_64 and ppc64le architecture with Vanila Kubernetes)
  • Ubuntu 20.04 (x86_64 architecture) with Vanilla Kubernetes
  • The volume snapshot functionality must have the following minimum requirements:
    • kubernetes version 1.20 or Red Hat OpenShift 4.7
    • IBM Spectrum Scale version 5.1.1.0