Deploying the
vSphere Container Storage Plug-in
on a Native Kubernetes Cluster

You can follow procedures in this section to install the
vSphere Container Storage Plug-in
on a Kubernetes cluster. The installation procedures apply only to generic, also called vanilla, Kubernetes clusters. Supervisor clusters and Tanzu Kubernetes clusters in vSphere with Tanzu use the pre-installed
vSphere Container Storage Plug-in
.
Before installing the
vSphere Container Storage Plug-in
, ensure that your environment meets all required prerequisites. For more information, see Preparing for Installation of vSphere Container Storage Plug-in.
Perform all installation procedures on the same Kubernetes node where you deploy the
vSphere Container Storage Plug-in
. VMware recommends that you install the
vSphere Container Storage Plug-in
on the Kubernetes control plane node.