vSphere installation requirements for user-provisioned infrastructure

Before you begin an installation on infrastructure that you provision, be sure that your vSphere environment meets the following installation requirements.

modules/installation-vsphere-infrastructure.adoc modules/vmware-csi-driver-reqs.adoc

Additional resources

To remove a third-party vSphere CSI driver, see Removing a third-party vSphere CSI Driver.
To update the hardware version for your vSphere nodes, see Updating hardware on nodes running in vSphere.
Minimum permissions for the storage components

Requirements for a cluster with user-provisioned infrastructure

For a cluster that contains user-provisioned infrastructure, you must deploy all of the required machines.

This section describes the requirements for deploying {product-title} on user-provisioned infrastructure.

modules/installation-vsphere-installer-infra-requirements.adoc

Additional resources

Creating a compute machine set on vSphere

modules/installation-machine-requirements.adoc modules/installation-minimum-resource-requirements.adoc

Additional resources

Optimizing storage

modules/installation-vsphere-encrypted-vms.adoc

Additional resources

Creating an encrypted storage class

modules/csr-management.adoc modules/installation-network-user-infra.adoc

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Configuring chrony time service

modules/installation-dns-user-infra.adoc modules/installation-load-balancing-user-infra.adoc