Creating a persistent volume (PV)

A persistent volume (PV) is the storage that is statically provisioned by an administrator or dynamically provisioned by using the storage classes.

To create a PV, do the following steps:

Download the sample file by issuing the following command and update with necessary parameters:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IBM/ibm-spectrum-scale-csi/v2.4.0/driver/examples/static/static_pv.yaml

Configure persistent volume (PV) manifest file with a volumeHandle as described in this example.


# cat pv.yaml 
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: static-scale-static-pv
spec:
  capacity:
    storage: 1Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  csi:
    driver: spectrumscale.csi.ibm.com
    volumeHandle: 7118073361626808055;09762E69:5D36FE8D;fileset=2;path=/ibm/gpfs0/staticdir

Field Name	Description
volumeHandle	This must be in the [clusterID];[Filesystem UID];path=[Path to the directory] format. To create a snapshot volume from an independent fileset, the format to be used is [clusterID];[Filesystem UID];fileset=[Fileset ID];path=[Fileset linkpath].
clusterID	ID of the primary cluster Note: mmlscluster command displays the current configuration including the cluster ID.
Filesystem UID	This is the UID of the filesystem that consists of directory to be provisioned. Note: mmlsfs <filesystem name> --uid command displays the file system UID.
path	Complete path of the directory to be provisioned.
Fileset ID	The Fileset ID field must be used if you want to create a snapshot volume from an independent fileset.

Note: This manifest file can be auto-generated by using the generate_static_provisioning_yamls.sh tool.

For more information, see Start of change

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IBM/ibm-spectrum-scale-csi/v2.4.0/tools/generate_static_provisioning_yamls.sh End of change

Issue this command to create a PV:
```
kubectl apply -f pv.yaml
```