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# Package: Storage Type

The storage types available on the Service Portal AI are designed to accommodate different data performance and capacity needs, ranging from general-purpose workloads to high-speed I/O operations. Each storage type offers a specific combination of speed, durability, and cost. Here’s an overview of the available options:

| **Storage type** | **Description**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | **Storage class name**                                                                                                                                       | **Access Mode**                                                                    |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Storage tier 1   | <p>High-performance NVMe storage integrated with Lustre, offering throughput up to 1 TBps and IOPS up to 20 million. Suitable for workloads requiring parallel file systems.<br><br>Note: This storage class cannot be used as root OS for VM workloads.</p>       | storage-nvme-lustre                                                                                                                                          | ReadWriteOnce (RWO) ReadOnlyMany (ROX) ReadWriteMany (RWX) ReadWriteOncePod (RWOP) |
| Storage tier 2   | NVMe storage using NFS protocol, providing a balance of performance for general purposes. This storage also supports NFS over RDMA for efficient direct memory transfers to achieve low latency communication. Throughput up to 155 GBps and IOPS up to 6 million. | <p>storage-nvme-c1 </p><p>NFS over TCP </p><p>storage-nvme-rdma-c1 </p><p>NFS over RDMA</p><p>storage-nvme-c1-encrypt </p><p>NFS with AES-256 encryption</p> | ReadWriteOnce (RWO) ReadOnlyMany (ROX) ReadWriteMany (RWX) ReadWriteOncePod (RWOP) |
| Storage backup   | Cost-efficient NL-SAS storage with high capacity achieving up to 2.6 GBps and IOPS up to 84k. This storage class is used for backup only, not available for Kubernetes and VM.                                                                                     | storage-nlsas                                                                                                                                                | ReadWriteOnce (RWO) ReadOnlyMany (ROX) ReadWriteMany (RWX) ReadWriteOncePod (RWOP) |