Network storage, NFS or other, is never optimal for DB storage. It can and is used, but it’s never going to be as good as local storage.

I had forgotten about local storage; it’s not something we can use in our environment.

It’s a moot point, in either case. Vitess doesn’t rely on persistent storage, it relies on replicas and backups.

I sincerely beg your forgiveness for forgetting about a feature that’s only about a year old, and a feature we can’t take advantage of in our own kubernetes environment, or with the Vitess cluster.

Forest, trees.

Theoretically, sure. But Vitess is - as Kubernetes is - provider agnostic.

But if you’re talking about the DB, sure to that too. But, not my decision.