vSphere Container Storage Plug-in supports multiple vSphere features. However, certain limitations apply.
| Functionality | vSphere Container Storage Plug-in Support |
|---|---|
| vSAN HCI Mesh |
Yes vSphere Container Storage Plug-in supports block volumes when you use HCI Mesh on vSphere 7.0 Update 3 or later. vSphere Container Storage Plug-in supports file volumes when you use HCI Mesh deployments in vSphere 8.0 Update 3 or later. |
| vSAN Max | Yes vSphere Container Storage Plug-in supports block volumes on vSAN Max deployments in vSphere 8.0 Update 2 or later. vSphere Container Storage Plug-in supports file volumes on vSAN Max deployments in vSphere 8.0 Update 3 or later. |
| vSAN File Service on Stretched Cluster | Yes |
| vSphere Storage DRS | No |
| vCenter Server High Availability | Yes With vSphere 7.0 Update 3c and later |
| ESXi Cluster Migration Between Different vCenter Server Systems | No |
| vMotion | Yes |
| Storage vMotion | Yes Supported directly with vSphere Client and CNS manager from vSphere 7.0 Update 3 and vSphere 8.0 Update 2 onwards. For more information, see the CNS Manager page on GitHub. |
| Cross vCenter Server Migration Moving workloads across vCenter Server systems and ESXi hosts. |
No |
| vSAN, including vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA), Virtual Volumes, NFS 3, and VMFS Datastores | Yes |
| NFS 4 Datastore | Yes With vSphere 7.0 Update 2 and later |
| vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) | Yes With vSphere 7.0 Update 3c and later |
| VM Encryption | Yes |
| Thick Provisioning on Non vSAN Datastores | Yes On VMFS datastore with vSphere 8.0 Update 1. For Virtual Volumes, it depends on capabilities exposed by third party storage arrays. |
| Thick Provisioning on vSAN Datastores | Yes |
| Deployments with Multiple vCenter Server Instances (limited support) | Yes vSphere Container Storage Plug-in does not support datastores shared across vCenter Server instances. |
