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title: "Provisioning Static Volumes"
slug: "provisioning-static-volumes-2-5"
updated: 2026-11-03T22:08:05Z
published: 2026-11-03T22:08:05Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/provisioning-static-volumes-2-5"
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# Provisioning Static Volumes

In addition to [dynamically creating](/develop/docs/en/automatic-creation-of-a-view-per-volume-2-5) VAST views for each PVC, VAST CSI Driver can expose existing data as statically provisioned persistent volumes.

You can control whether VAST CSI Driver automatically creates a view and/or a quota for static volumes by leveraging the following options:

- `static_pv_create_views`, when set to `yes`, instructs VAST CSI Driver to create a view for the static volume in case no such view exists. If this option is omitted or set to `no`, VAST CSI Driver assumes that there is a predefined view on the VAST cluster that can be used for this volume.
- `static_pv_create_quotas`, when set to `yes`, instructs VAST CSI Driver to create a quota for the static volume if no quota exists. If this option is omitted or set to `no`, no quota is created.

These options are specified under `volumeAttributes` in the `csi` part of the PV definition YAML. You can enter `true` or `1` instead of `yes` as the option value.

Note that VAST CSI Driver does not automatically delete views or quotas it has created, even upon deletion of their respective PVs.

Below is an example of a YAML definition for a statically provisioned persistent volume:

```plaintext
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: csi-pv-static
spec:
  storageClassName: vastdata-filesystem
  capacity:
    storage: 1Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  mountOptions:
    - nfsvers=3
  csi:
    driver: csi.vastdata.com
    volumeAttributes:
      vip_pool_name: vippool-1  
      view_policy: default  
      size: 1G
      static_pv_create_views: "yes"
      static_pv_create_quotas: "yes"
    controllerPublishSecretRef:
      name: vast-mgmt
      namespace: default
    volumeHandle: /full/path/to/view
```

The PVC for a static volume is similar to the following:

```plaintext
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: csi-pvc-static
spec:
  storageClassName: vastdata-filesystem
  volumeName: csi-pv-static
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 1Gi
```