You can enable a vSphere cluster to manage Kubernetes workload objects, only after you enable vSphere DRS in a fully automated mode and enable HA on the cluster.

Before you enable a

vSphere Supervisor

on a vSphere cluster, you must prepare your environment to meet the specific networking, storage, and infrastructure requirements. See the

Installing and Configuring vSphere IaaS Control Plane

documentation.

For more information about how to configure the storage settings to meet the requirements of

vSphere Supervisor

, see Creating Storage Policies for vSphere Supervisor.

For more information about how to configure the networking settings for

Supervisor

s that are configured with the VMware NSX-T™ Data Center as the networking stack, see Configuring NSX for vSphere Supervisor.

Starting with vSphere 7.0 Update 1, you can enable a

Supervisor

with vSphere networking or NSX-T Data Center, to provide connectivity between control planes, services, and workloads. A

Supervisor

that is configured with vSphere networking uses a vSphere Distributed Switch to provide connectivity to Kubernetes workloads and control planes. The cluster also requires a third-party load balancer that provides connectivity to DevOps users and external services. You can install in your vSphere environment the HAProxy load balancer implementation that VMware provides. See Configuring the vSphere Networking Stack for vSphere Supervisor and Installing and Configuring the HAProxy Load Balancer.

Staring with vSphere 7.0 Update 2, if you are using vSphere networking, you can use the VMware NSX®Advanced Load Balancer™ to support

TKG

clusters provisioned by the

TKG

. See Using the NSX Advanced Load Balancer with vSphere Networking.