How do Tanzu Kubemetes clusters communicate with Storage Policy Based Management to request PersistentVolumes?

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Directly with the vCenter ServerAnswer: DExplanation:The Cloud Native Storage for vSphere with Tanzu workflow is as follows:

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Through a proxy VM

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Directly with vCenter Server and the underlying ESXi hosts

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Through the Supervisor Cluster

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A developer deploys a pod using the kubectl CLI.

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The vSphere with Tanzu Cloud Native Storage-Container Storage Interface (CNS-CSI) reads this request from the control plane API server.

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CNS-CSI informs the vCenter Server CNS of the need for a disk with storage class Gold.

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CNS interfaces with SPBM for a suitable datastore that satisfies the Gold storage class (storage policy).

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SPBM decides on a suitable datastore and interfaces with DRS for a suitable ESXi host.

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Hostd on the ESXi host creates a First Class Disk (VMDK) on the datastore.

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Spherelet on the ESXi host takes the created VMDK.

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Spherelet mounts the VMDK to the vSphere Pod.

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