Currently Heketi does not have any working directory. Its using current working directory. for example: heketi-cli setup-openshift-heketi-storage will store heketi-storage.json file in current working dir same for pv json file heketi-cli volume create \ --size=100 \ --persistent-volume-file=pv001.json Heketi should have its working dir.
setup-openshift-heketi-storage has a flag which can be used to specify file location.