Announcing the general availability of Portworx CSI 26.2.0 – a new version of the CSI driver that includes several new features and capabilities designed to enhance multi-tenancy, improve performance and resiliency, strengthen snapshot safety, and expand deployment flexibility for Portworx CSI (PX-CSI).
Key Highlights:
FlashBlade Realm & Multi Server Support - Enhanced security through secure multi-tenancy with Realms, multiple servers for data and network isolation, and stronger tenant isolation and scale on a shared FlashBlade array.
NVMe Native Multipath Support - Delivers lower latency, faster failover, higher throughput, and automatic support for both native NVMe multipath and existing DM-multipath behavior across NVMe-oF environments.
Increased Scale Limits to 1K Volumes per Node - Increases supported scale to 1024 volume attachments per node, improves workload density and consolidation, and helps support large-scale KubeVirt and VMware-to-OpenShift migration use cases.
NFS over TLS Support for FA and FB Files - Enables encrypted in-transit NFS access for file workloads with PX-CSI, improving security posture for both FlashArray and FlashBlade file services.
Wind River Platform Support - Extends PX-CSI platform support to Wind River environments, broadening deployment flexibility for telco and edge use cases.
Block PV Deletion When Snapshots Exist - Improves CSI spec compliance, prevents orphaned VolumeSnapshot resources, protects data integrity and restoreability, and returns a clear FAILED_PRECONDITION error when deletion must be blocked.
Single Node and Two-Node Arbiter Deployments - Removes the three-node dependency for supported OpenShift deployment models and aligns PX-CSI more closely with Red Hat-supported edge and compact-cluster scenarios.
Monitor Host Connection Health - Improves monitoring of iSCSI, NVMe, and FC connection health, including multipath status, and exposes Prometheus-visible signals to help identify degraded storage paths earlier.
Volume group snapshots - Enables coordinated point-in-time protection for multi-volume applications and provides a foundation for more app-consistent backup and recovery workflows.
Usage Instructions
- Generate a PX-CSI spec through PX Central, then use the installation guide or upgrade guide from the Portworx CSI documentation.
Additional Resources
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the PX-CSI, FA engineering, QA, program management, documentation, devOps, customer account, field teams for all your contributions towards this release. Special thanks as well to everyone who contributed to TOI preparation, customer coordination, and overall release readiness.