Overview¶

Verda storage services help you keep data close to your workloads, share files across systems, and manage container images for deployment. Verda has two persistent storage types: block volumes for a single instance's disk, and shared filesystems for sharing files across multiple instances or cluster nodes — plus Container Registry when you need a private place to store and deploy container images.

Block volume — attach one to an instance (during deployment or after), then on the instance:

mkdir /mnt/<DIR_NAME>
mount /dev/<TARGET> /mnt/<DIR_NAME>

New, empty volume? Format it first with mkfs.ext4 /dev/<TARGET>. See Attach a block volume for the full steps, including adding it to /etc/fstab so it survives a reboot.

Shared filesystem — create one from the Shared filesystems screen (or while deploying an instance), choose which instances can access it, then mount it on each:

mkdir -p /mnt/[SFS_NAME]
mount -t nfs -o nconnect=16 nfs.[DC].datacrunch.io:[PSEUDO] /mnt/[SFS_NAME]

See Create a shared filesystem and Mount a shared filesystem for details — including mounting across every node in a cluster at once. Attaching storage to an Instant Cluster instead of individual instances? See Use SFS with a cluster, since clusters use a separate virtiofs-based filesystem attached only at creation time.