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## 1.9.1 Volume and claim lifecycle 

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The Reclaim policy informs the cluster what to do with the volume after it has been released from its claim 

Retain allows for the manual reclamation of the storage asset. The PVC is deleted but the PV remains. 

Delete reclaim policy removes both the objects from within the cluster, as well as the associated storage asset from the external infrastructure. 

Recycle has been deprecated and should no longer be used. 

Access Modes define how volumes can be mounted in the manner supported by the storage provider 

GLYPH<SM590000> ReadWriteOnce (RWO) can be mounted as read-write by a single node and pod 

GLYPH<SM590000> ReadOnlyMany (ROX) can be mounted read-only by many nodes and pods 

GLYPH<SM590000> ReadWriteMany (RWX) can be mounted as read-write by many nodes and pods 

Note:  Reclaim policy and Access Modes may be defined differently by each storage provider implementation. 

