# Kubernetes shared storage options

**URL:** <https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kubernetes-shared-storage-options/31502>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [February 4, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kubernetes-shared-storage-options/31502 "2025-02-04T14:33:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kubernetes-shared-storage-options/31502/1 "2025-02-04T14:33:36Z")

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Hello,

i am new to kubernetes i want to know what are good solutions for shared storage i can look in to?

Now i have figured out NFS but what are the alternatives we are running in a vcenter envroment if there a way to talk directly to a datastore ?

[### Cluster information:

Kubernetes version: 1.30  
Cloud being used: (vcenter)  
Installation method: ansible ([GitHub - techno-tim/k3s-ansible: The easiest way to bootstrap a self-hosted High Availability Kubernetes cluster. A fully automated HA k3s etcd install with kube-vip, MetalLB, and more. Build. Destroy. Repeat.](https://github.com/techno-tim/k3s-ansible))  
Host OS: Ubuntu