Manage FlashArray PVCs
On-premises users who want to use FlashArray with Portworx on Kubernetes can attach FlashArray as a Direct Access volume. Used in this way, Portworx directly provisions FlashArray volumes, maps them to a user PVC, and mounts them to pods. Once mounted, the application writes data directly onto FlashArray. As a result, this mounting method doesn’t use storage pools. FlashArray Direct Access volumes enable seamless storage integration for your applications.
FlashArray Direct Access volumes support the following CSI operations:
- Basic filesystem operations: create, mount, expand, clone, unmount, delete
- Mount options: Configure file system mount options
- Snapshots: Create and manage snapshots of storage.
- Quality of service (QoS) settings: Requires at least one FlashArray running Purity version 5.3.0 or newer with REST API version 1.17 or newer.
Refer to the sections below for detailed instructions on performing various Day 2 operations such as provisioning persistent volumes directly from FlashArray and making them available to application pods in a Kubernetes cluster:
Create and use PVCs
Create StorageClass, PVCs and verify the set up for FA
Expand or delete PVCs
Learn how to expand or delete PVCs of FlashArray direct access volume.
Manage snapshots
Learn how to set up snapshot for FlashArray direct access volume.