available-persistent-storage-options.adoc

Available persistent storage options

Understand your persistent storage options so that you can optimize your {product-title} environment.

Table 1. Available storage options

Storage type	Description	Examples
Block	Presented to the operating system (OS) as a block device Suitable for applications that need full control of storage and operate at a low level on files bypassing the file system Also referred to as a Storage Area Network (SAN) Non-shareable, which means that only one client at a time can mount an endpoint of this type	AWS EBS and VMware vSphere support dynamic persistent volume (PV) provisioning natively in {product-title}.
File	Presented to the OS as a file system export to be mounted Also referred to as Network Attached Storage (NAS) Concurrency, latency, file locking mechanisms, and other capabilities vary widely between protocols, implementations, vendors, and scales.	RHEL NFS, NetApp NFS [1], and Vendor NFS
Object	Accessible through a REST API endpoint Configurable for use in the {product-title} Registry Applications must build their drivers into the application and/or container.	AWS S3

1. NetApp NFS supports dynamic PV provisioning when using the Trident plug-in.

Important

Currently, CNS is not supported in {product-title} {product-version}.