HPE has re-released in June 2021 its CSI Driver 2.0 which now supports the following HPE storage:
- Alletra OS 6000
- Alletra OS 9000
- Nimble OS
- Primera
- 3PAR
The lineage of the HPE Alletra platforms stem from Nimble Storage for HPE Alletra 6000, and Primera for HPE Alletra 9000. This in turn warranted a name change of the respective CSPs, and the new CSPs are now backwards compatible with their respective legacy platform.
For now, the respective CSP is the same for each product family, but they may diverge in the future as new and exciting capabilities become available on HPE new and evolving platforms.
This release includes a CSP agnostic volume encryption feature that takes place on the Kubernetes compute node where the volume is attached. In turn, this yields the benefit of providing both in-flight and at-rest encryption of the data.
With the release of HPE Alletra 6000 a multitenancy feature exclusive to the HPE CSI Driver Kubernetes has been introduced. The feature is also back-ported to be included in the latest release of NimbleOS for HPE Nimble Storage. This new capability allows users who govern storage infrastructure to dispense a new type of user account on the array called a “tenant”, which is managed by the newly introduced CLI tenantadmin on the array.
