Why we don't use your grandfather's storage for K8's?

Andrew Parsons
6 min readOct 21, 2021

I decided to write this blog because I get asked this question a lot. Why should I use Portworx, when I can use CSI from my existing storage array which is free?

This is a very common question from storage teams and infrastructure teams. Why do you need to pay for storage when I already have it? The answer is a bit complex with multiple rabbit holes. But let's look at this from the VMware, Storage, Core infrastructure teams' perspective.

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Andrew Parsons

Focused on storage in k8s and automation using ansible.