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Because K8s provides auto restart and load balancing capabilities, it is unlikely that vSphere features such as vSphere HA and vSphere DRS would be configured. This would create a situation where there are two managers of the capabilities, which could result in potential conflicts. vMotion is still valuable in a K8s deployment on vSphere, allowing K8s nodes to be migrated to another host without disruption.
Kubernetes provides storage provisioning and orchestration through the Container Storage Interface (CSI). When running K8s on vSphere, the appropriate vSphere CSI driver is used, depending on the K8s distribution. VMware Tanzu installations may use a different CSI version than the general vSphere CSI driver used for most other K8s distributions.
Because vSphere CSI drivers support VMFS datastores, PowerStore Metro volume can be used to enable K8s in a stretched cluster configuration with VMFS datastores shared between cluster nodes and two PowerStore clusters. This is an important capability. Stretched Kubernetes clusters are not supported by most CSI drivers and storage platforms. The combination of Dell PowerStore Metro volume and vSphere provides stretched cluster capabilities to a wide number of K8s distributions that do not have bare metal support for K8s stretched clusters.