Wolkvolumes

Wolkvolumes are logical storage volumes used in some cloud storage architectures referred to as the Wolk storage platform. They function as containers for blocks of data and provide independent provisioning, lifecycle management, and access control separate from the host file system. The exact features and terminology of wolkvolumes vary by vendor, and the concept is not a universal standard.

A wolkvolume has a defined capacity and can be provisioned either thinly or thickly. It typically supports features such as snapshots, clones, encryption at rest, data integrity checks, and replication for durability. Backing storage may span multiple disks or nodes, and volumes can be configured with storage classes or quality-of-service settings.

Management is performed via an API or user interface provided by the Wolk platform. Volumes can be attached to compute instances as block devices and may be exposed through iSCSI, NVMe over Fabrics, or cloud-native interfaces. In container orchestration environments, wolkvolumes may be provisioned through a storage class and mounted as PersistentVolumes.

Origins and standardization: The term appears in vendor documentation and community resources from the early 2020s, but there is no formal international standard defining wolkvolumes. Definitions are typically platform-specific, and interoperability across different Wolk implementations may be limited.

See also: Logical volume, Software-defined storage, Block storage, Cloud storage, PersistentVolume (Kubernetes).