Question 7: Which feature in VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) provides vSphere storage policy integr… | Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 vSphere Kubernetes Service Practice Question

Which feature in VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) provides vSphere storage policy integration that supports provisioning persistent volumes and their backing virtual disks?

Answer

A. Cloud storage provider
B. vSphere Cloud Native Storage (CNS) Correct
C. Container Storage Interface (CSI)
D. Cloud storage implementation

Explanation

VCF 9.0 describes Cloud Native Storage (CNS) on vCenteras the component that implements “provisioning and lifecycle operations for persistent volumes.” When provisioning persistent volumes, CNS “interacts with the vSphere First Class Disk functionality to create virtual disks that back the volumes,” and it “communicates with Storage Policy Based Management to guarantee a required level of service to the disks.” This is exactly the storage-policy-to-backed-virtual-disk relationship the question is testing: storage policies (via policy-based management) define requirements, and CNS is the vCenter- side service that applies those requirements while creating and managing the backing storage objects. In contrast,CSI (including Supervisor CNS-CSI and VKS pvCSI) is the Kubernetes-facing interface/driver used to request and consume storage, but it does not “provide” the vSphere storage policy system; rather, it relies on CNS/CNS-CSI and vCenter services to fulfill provisioning requests. Therefore, vSphere Cloud Native Storage (CNS)is the correct choice.