Manage and create PVCs

Portworx supports dynamic provisioning of PVCs in Kubernetes. The PVCs can either be ReadWriteOnce (used by a single pod) or ReadWriteMany (shared by multiple pods).

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📄️ Create your first PVC

Learn how to create and use PVCs

📄️ Pure FlashArray PVCs

Learn how to set up Pure FlashArray as a direct access volume.

📄️ Pure FlashBlade PVCs

Learn how to set up Pure FlashBlade as a direct access filesystem.

📄️ Create ReadOnlyMany access mode PVCs

Learn how to create PVCs using the ReadOnlyMany access mode

📄️ Create Proxy Volume PVCs

Proxy an external data source onto a Portworx volume.

📄️ Create PX-Fast PVCs

How to enable PX-Fast functionality on volumes

📄️ Create Sharedv4 PVCs

Learn how to use Portworx sharedv4 volumes (ReadWriteMany) in your Kubernetes

📄️ Create a PVC from a Snapshot

Learn to take a snapshot of a volume from a Kubernetes persistent volume claim (PVC) using annotations and use that snapshot as the volume for a new pod.

📄️ Manage Provisioning of PVCs

Learn different strategies for controlling volume provisioning

📄️ Dynamic Provisioning of PVCs

Learn how to use dynamically provisioned Portworx volumes with Kubernetes

📄️ Access a PVC as Non-Root User

Find out how to access a Portworx volume (PVC/PV) with a non-root user

📄️ Resize PVCs

Step-by-step tutorial on how to resize a Portworx volume with Kubernetes

🗃️ Volume Placement Strategies

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📄️ Using Pre-provisioned Volumes

Learn how to use a pre-provisioned Portworx volume in Kubernetes

📄️ Open NFS ports

Open the NFS ports required for sharedv4 volumes to work.