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.