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The CSI driver for PowerFlex is a plug-in that is installed in Kubernetes to provide persistent storage using the PowerFlex storage system. The CSI driver for PowerFlex supports dynamic and static provisioning of PV and snapshot capabilities. The Helm chart or an operator installs the CSI driver container image with its side car containers and automatically installs PowerFlex SDC on each worker node that is part of the Kubernetes cluster.
Note: For more information about operating systems that support automatic SDC install, see PowerFlex SDC install.
The controller section of the Helm chart installs the following components in a single deployment in the namespace vxflexos:
The node section of the Helm chart installs the following components in a daemon set in the namespace vxflexos: