Divyen Patel

/remove-lifecycle rotten

@MalHaak We have just removed dependency on vSphere CPI which is setting ProviderID on the Node, which driver was using it. We need to have some CPI or CCM installed...

@sathieu in your setup if you delete Node VM from vCenter server. How is the associated node object getting removed from the API server without CCM executing `InstanceExistsByProviderID`? Can you...

/remove-lifecycle rotten

/remove-lifecycle rotten

Refer to https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-storage/GUID-3F124146-E387-4613-8BCA-6F1375E2CA64.html You can configure Storage Policy to provision volume with Fully initialized Volume allocation.

Before the driver can create CR instances, it is necessary to register the CsiNodeTopology CRD. Once this CRD has been successfully registered, the CSI Node Daemonset's pod will be able...

syncer component in the driver registers the CRD. Refer to https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver/blob/f762a45e4db2b59e36e80ee943bc42a84f4980cc/pkg/syncer/cnsoperator/manager/init.go#L205-L212

> how to make sure CRD successfully registered before CSI node daemonset pod to create the instance? you can install the CSI controller Pod first, let all required CRDs to...

@gabrieletosca I see you have pending vsphere-csi-controller Pods? Can you make CSI controller pod up and running and later check CSI Node Daemonset Pod status?