is there any way to configure the vsphere-csi driver to use local datastore's without having a shared datastore?

[schmitch]

hello, currently I have a single shared datastore (nfs) and each node has its own datastore. since the local datastore is backed by ssd's I'm looking into vsphere-csi to use the local datastore of each node (like k8s local storage, just with auto vmfs provisioning), however everything I did either leads to deployment on the shared datastore or I get no pod at all. is this "shared" datastore thing a hard requirmenet and its impossible to configure?

what's even more wierd is that I still have a single container volume on a local datastore, that I probably created with topology aware provisioning in <= 2.7, however with the most recent 3.1.x version I can't get it to work with topology awareness and local datastores.

Edit: somehow at the end it worked with topology-awareness and a storagePolicy, but I have no idea why it worked. what I did, was that the master nodes are actually also getting the vsphere-csi-node, I also have a foreign node (baremetal node without vcenter) which does not have the vsphere-csi-node, however it still worked.

[divyenpatel]

@schmitch Yes, you can use local host datastore for volume provisioning.

You can define zone at host level and keep node VM in each Host in the cluster.
Make sure to disable vSphere HA and DRS, so node VM does not get migrated to another host.

With this configuration you can use local host datastore for volume provisioning.

[rajasec]

@divyenpatel
Even we have the same issue for version csi 3.2.
we have two Host which is having respective local data stores, let us know what is the way to provision the volume for local data store.
We applied tags at Zone level and Host level, it is complaining saying "No compatible datastores found"
Let us know what is the way around for this issue.