Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere Bare Metal on Dell PowerFlex
Introduction
PowerFlex product overview
Solution architecture
Installing an Amazon EKS Anywhere Bare Metal cluster on Dell PowerFlex
Creating an Amazon EKS Anywhere Bare Metal cluster
Validating the cluster deployment
Installing the PowerFlex CSI driver
Deployment tests and validation
Amazon EKS Connector
Conclusion
Hardware qualification details
References
Use case 2: Extend PVC volumes with PowerFlex CSI
Use case 2: Extend PVC volumes with PowerFlex CSI
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This use case describes the extension of PVC volumes with PowerFlex CSI:
- A Pod with a PVC volume of 8 GB is created In the lab environment.
- PVC is extended with the kubectl patch pvc command.
- The activity is monitored from the Volumes section of the PowerFlex UI, as shown in the following figure:
Figure 7. PowerFlex PVC volume
- The kubectl get pvc command provides the status of the claim and the kubectl patch pvc command extends the claim, as shown in the following example:
$ kubectl get pvc
NAME STATUS VOLUME CAPACITY ACCESS MODES STORAGECLASS AGE
mysql-pv-claim Bound k8s-8asf515d17 8Gi RWO vxflexos 129m
mysql-pv-claim-snap1 Bound k8s-ae206454d3 8Gi RWO vxflexos 133m
$ kubectl patch pvc mysql-pv-claim -p '{"resources":{"requests":{"storage":"16Gi"}}}}`
persistentcolumeclaim/mysql-pv-claim patched
- Verify the PVC expansion on the PowerFlex Storage UI, as shown in the following figure:
Figure 8. Dell PowerFlex storage volume