Issue on creating a PVC after Openshift update to 4.16

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

 After the upgrade there is a problem when creating a pvc on deployed VMware cluster.

csi-driver {"level":"error","time":"20xx-xx-xxT11:04:33.963027436Z","caller":"vanilla/controller.go:1433","msg":"failed to create volume. Errors encountered: [No compatible datastores found for accessibility requirements [map[topology.csi.vmware.com/k8s-region:k8s-CM1 topology.csi.vmware.com/k8s-zone:AZ1]] pertaining to vCenter \"xxxxxx001.xxx.xxxxxxxxx.com\"]","TraceId":"xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx","stacktrace":"sigs.k8s.io/vsphere-csi-driver/v3/pkg/csi/service/vanilla.(*controller).createBlockVolumeWithPlacementEngineForMultiVC\n\t/go/src/github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver/pkg/csi/service/vanilla/controller.go:1433\nsigs.k8s.io/vsphere-csi-driver/v3/pkg/csi/service/vanilla.(*controller).CreateVolume.func1\n\t/go/src/github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver/pkg/csi/service/vanilla/controller.go:1842\nsigs.k8s.io/vsphere-csi-driver/v3/pkg/csi/service/vanilla.(*controller).CreateVolume\n\t/go/src/github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver/pkg/csi/service/vanilla/controller.go:1847\ngithub.com/container-storage-interface/spec/lib/go/csi._Controller_CreateVolume_Handler\n\t/go/src/github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver/vendor/github.com/container-storage-interface/spec/lib/go/csi/csi.pb.go:5671\ngoogle.golang.org/grpc.(*Server).processUnaryRPC\n\t/go/src/github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver/vendor/google.golang.org/grpc/server.go:1343\ngoogle.golang.org/grpc.(*Server).handleStream\n\t/go/src/github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver/vendor/google.golang.org/grpc/server.go:1737\ngoogle.golang.org/grpc.(*Server).serveStreams.func1.1\n\t/go/src/github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver/vendor/google.golang.org/grpc/server.go:986"}

Cause

Zones not set up correctly

Resolution

Configure zones correctly

More information:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/container-storage-plugin/3-0/getting-started-with-vmware-vsphere-container-storage-plug-in-3-0/vsphere-container-storage-plug-in-deployment/deploying-vsphere-container-storage-plug-in-with-topology.html#GUID-73D106A3-1D8A-4CDC-9762-6CB35A65B0B4-en

 

Refer to Open shift documentation

      https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.16/html/storage/using-container-storage-interface-csi#vsphere-csi-topology-requirements