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  • 1.  Storage requirement for CP4I 2021.1.1 installation in AWS

    Posted Wed May 19, 2021 02:54 PM
    Hi Team,

    Whats the storage requirement to install CP4I 2021.1.1 version in AWS using the operators? By default when the OCP cluster is installed in AWS , we get gp2 & ebs storage class but we are unable to provision platform navigator with that storage.  Appreciate any help.

    Thanks
    Mohan

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  • 2.  RE: Storage requirement for CP4I 2021.1.1 installation in AWS

    Posted Thu May 20, 2021 03:47 AM
    Hi @Mohan Kumar H,

    ​The Platform UI component that is now part of the Platform Navigator requires an RWX (File) volume type - typically that would be something like AWS EFS, but other options include software-defined storage providers such as OpenShift Container Storage or Portworx.

    Regards,

    Matt

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    Matt Roberts
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  • 3.  RE: Storage requirement for CP4I 2021.1.1 installation in AWS

    Posted Thu May 20, 2021 04:42 AM
    Thank you @Matt Roberts for your response. However by default we don't get AWS EFS storage classes in cluster.. So is there any documentation/article around adding the AWS EFS Storage or software-defined storage providers in to the OCP cluster?

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  • 4.  RE: Storage requirement for CP4I 2021.1.1 installation in AWS

    IBM TechXchange Speaker
    Posted Thu May 20, 2021 05:34 AM
    There is documentation on how to do it using the operator here:
    https://access.redhat.com/articles/5025181#install-the-aws-efs-operator

    It looks like the manual method has been removed from the OpenShift docs site for OCP 4.6, but the instructions for OCP 4.4 are still up in case you wanted to use the manual approach: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/storage/persistent_storage/persistent-storage-efs.html

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  • 5.  RE: Storage requirement for CP4I 2021.1.1 installation in AWS

    Posted Thu May 20, 2021 10:43 AM

    External provisioner for AWS EFS (Technology Preview) feature has been removed

    The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic File System (EFS) Technology Preview feature has been removed and is no longer supported.

    https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/release_notes/ocp-4-6-release-notes.html



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  • 6.  RE: Storage requirement for CP4I 2021.1.1 installation in AWS

    Posted Thu September 09, 2021 09:36 AM
    Hello All,

    We are even more restricted. We are using AWS ROSA (managed Openshift service), which restricts us from using OCS and RH have already revoked support to EFS. What are our ways forward with installing the Platform Navigator?

    Regards,
    Lokesh.

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    Lokesh Ramakrishna
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  • 7.  RE: Storage requirement for CP4I 2021.1.1 installation in AWS

    Posted Thu September 09, 2021 09:53 AM
    Hi All,

    On further reading, I understand that EFS (even though not supported by RedHat and customers are responsible for backups and recovery) is still available for ROSA customers.

    Ref: osd-persistent-storage-aws

    Any suggestions/recommendations welcome.
     
    Regards,
    Lokesh.

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