# Install vSphere Docker Volume Service driver on all ESXi hosts

vSphere Docker Volume Service technology enables stateful containers to access the storage volumes. Setting this up is a one-off manual step. In order to be able to use Docker volumes using the vSphere driver, you must first install the latest release of the vSphere Docker Volume Service (vDVS) driver, which is available as a vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB). To perform this operation, log in to each of the ESXi hosts and then download and install the latest release of vDVS driver.

# esxcli software vib install -v /tmp/vmware-esx-vmdkops-<version>.vib --no-sig-check

More information on how to download and install the driver can be found at http://vmware.github.io/vsphere-storage-for-docker/documentation/install.html. The version of the driver tested in this configuration is 0.21.2.

Note:

You cannot mount the same persistent volume created through vSphere Docker Volume Service (vDVS) on containers running on two different hosts at the same time.