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Exploring the VAST CSI Operator in Red Hat OpenShift. Learn how to deploy block & file storage on Red Hat OpenShift using the certified VAST CSI operator — and the configuration details that keep it running when your cluster updates itself. Hear about the latest features and enhancements in this hands-on demo-centric session.

Description: In April we showed you how to get VAST file storage working on Kubernetes with Helm. This time we introduce two more variables: NVMe over TCP block, and OpenShift with the certified operator instead of Kubernetes with Helm.

If you run OpenShift and have wondered how to give your teams self-service block or file volumes on VAST — securely and efficiently — this session is for you.

Join us for another "less-slides, more-action" webinar. Yemalin plays the OpenShift admin standing up VAST block storage for the first time; Rob guides him through it live. We'll set up the tenant and VIP pool on VAST, install the operator, create the secret and storage class, provision block PVCs over NVMe/TCP, and show what's changed in VIP pool discovery so your volumes land on addresses your nodes can actually reach.

Key Takeaways:

• Operator vs. Helm: What's the same, what's different, and why OpenShift admins should care about update approval.

• Block on VAST, step by step: Tenant, VIP pool, view policy, secret, StorageClass, PVC, pod — provisioned live on OpenShift.

• VIP Pool Discovery, explained: A recent enhancement changed which IPs the driver returns. Learn what it means for your block configuration.

• NQNs you don't manage: Why the driver masquerades NVMe initiators and what that buys you for multi-tenancy and cleanup.

Lessons from the field: Get it right the first time! Common customer design and deployment shortcomings  — and how to improve and avoid them.