# Docker and netapp storage

**URL:** <https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-and-netapp-storage/6153>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 9, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-and-netapp-storage/6153 "2016-02-09T15:11:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![wheestermans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@wheestermans](https://forums.docker.com/u/wheestermans)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-and-netapp-storage/6153/1 "2016-02-09T15:11:29Z")

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I’m new in Docker and looking how we best introduce it inside our company. We have a lot of data on netapp storage.

I’m aware of -v option to create volumes inside a container. Works nicely…

What is need to have a netapp storage available as volume in ontainer? Do I always need to first mount it on the host, and then added with -v or is there some other way without the mount on the host?

Regards

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**Author:** ![ncux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/ncux/32/4541_2.png) [@ncux](https://forums.docker.com/u/ncux)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-and-netapp-storage/6153/2 "2016-02-15T18:40:15Z")

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check this out: [https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/plugins/](https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/plugins/)

you can use something like netshare plugin to mount volumes from nfs

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**Author:** ![wheestermans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@wheestermans](https://forums.docker.com/u/wheestermans)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-and-netapp-storage/6153/3 "2016-02-16T11:47:42Z")

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Yes,

we are now checking the plugin

sudo /opt/docker-volume-netshare\_0.10\_linux\_386/docker-volume-netshare nfs –v 3 --verbose

Regards  
Walter

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**Author:** ![innergy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/innergy/32/6630_2.png) [@innergy](https://forums.docker.com/u/innergy)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 5:12am UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-and-netapp-storage/6153/4 "2016-06-14T05:12:17Z")

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And in case you’re still investigating this or other people stumble across this post later, here’s the actual NetApp plugin:  
[https://github.com/NetApp/netappdvp](https://github.com/NetApp/netappdvp)

Love to hear any feedback you might have.