# Persistent Volumes — Types of Persistent Volumes

> PersistentVolume types are implemented as plugins. Kubernetes currently supports the following plugins csi - Container Storage Interface (CSI) fc - Fibre Channel (FC) storage hostPath - HostPath volume (for single node testing only; WILL NOT WORK in a multi-node cluster; consider using local volume

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PersistentVolume types are implemented as plugins. Kubernetes currently supports the following plugins

csi - Container Storage Interface (CSI) fc - Fibre Channel (FC) storage hostPath - HostPath volume (for single node testing only; WILL NOT WORK in a multi-node cluster; consider using local volume instead) iscsi - iSCSI (SCSI over IP) storage local - local storage devices mounted on nodes. nfs - Network File System (NFS) storage

The following types of PersistentVolume are deprecated but still available. If you are using these volume types except for flexVolume, cephfs and rbd, please install corresponding CSI drivers.

awsElasticBlockStore - AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) (migration on by default starting v1.23) azureDisk - Azure Disk (migration on by default starting v1.23) azureFile - Azure File (migration on by default starting v1.24) cinder - Cinder (OpenStack block storage) (migration on by default starting v1.21) flexVolume - FlexVolume (deprecated starting v1.23, no migration plan and no plan to remove support) gcePersistentDisk - GCE Persistent Disk (migration on by default starting v1.23) portworxVolume - Portworx volume (migration on by default starting v1.31) vsphereVolume - vSphere VMDK volume (migration on by default starting v1.25)

Older versions of Kubernetes also supported the following in-tree PersistentVolume types

cephfs (not available starting v1.31) flocker - Flocker storage. (not available starting v1.25) glusterfs - GlusterFS storage. (not available starting v1.26) photonPersistentDisk - Photon controller persistent disk. (not available starting v1.15) quobyte - Quobyte volume. (not available starting v1.25) rbd - Rados Block Device (RBD) volume (not available starting v1.31) scaleIO - ScaleIO volume. (not available starting v1.21) storageos - StorageOS volume. (not available starting v1.25)

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