# My On-Premise instance of RenkuLab does not support mounting cloud storage in sessions

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**Category:** Renku Admin\
**Created:** [15 November 2023 11:15 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/my-on-premise-instance-of-renkulab-does-not-support-mounting-cloud-storage-in-sessions/952 "2023-11-15T11:15:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![franckyfrancky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e19adc/32.png) [@franckyfrancky](https://renku.discourse.group/u/franckyfrancky)\
**Post date:** [15 November 2023 11:15 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/my-on-premise-instance-of-renkulab-does-not-support-mounting-cloud-storage-in-sessions/952/1 "2023-11-15T11:15:48Z")

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Hi, I’m on renku 0.42.1 (on premise deployment) and I’m trying to connect an S3 storage but it seems that my instance doesn’t support it as shown on the image.  
but despite this, I can still add cloud storage ([http://s3.amazonaws.com/giab](http://s3.amazonaws.com/giab) for example) but this is not reported on the session launch page and therefore does not work. but on the public instance everything works correctly.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/renku/original/1X/723a8af126f47b9030a9c87984b57b3c8e9de2d9.png)

the image below is a capture of the public instance (renkulab) and this area highlighted in yellow is not displayed in my On premise instance on the session launch page.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/renku/original/1X/d2ef53ba7da4f33da5100f69edd5126fffced7e9.png)

what could be the cause?

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**Author:** ![aledegano](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/renku.discourse.group/aledegano/32/290_2.png) [@aledegano](https://renku.discourse.group/u/aledegano)\
**Post date:** [15 November 2023 14:03 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/my-on-premise-instance-of-renkulab-does-not-support-mounting-cloud-storage-in-sessions/952/2 "2023-11-15T14:03:40Z")

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Hello,  
you will need to set:

```auto
    notebooks:
      cloudstorage:
        s3:
          enabled: true
          installDatashim: true

```

in your values file.

This is not yet documented so I will add it ASAP.

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**Author:** ![franckyfrancky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e19adc/32.png) [@franckyfrancky](https://renku.discourse.group/u/franckyfrancky)\
**Post date:** [15 November 2023 15:09 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/my-on-premise-instance-of-renkulab-does-not-support-mounting-cloud-storage-in-sessions/952/3 "2023-11-15T15:09:22Z")

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great! it works very well,  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![franckyfrancky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e19adc/32.png) [@franckyfrancky](https://renku.discourse.group/u/franckyfrancky)\
**Post date:** [15 November 2023 16:32 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/my-on-premise-instance-of-renkulab-does-not-support-mounting-cloud-storage-in-sessions/952/4 "2023-11-15T16:32:26Z")

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This time I get the configuration of the s3 config zone in the session start page, but when I start the session, it runs indefinitely. and i have with describe pod this below picture

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/renku/original/1X/c49048762138a9258ea001b88b5f815c183ede01.png)  
and csi-s3 pod always stay on ContainerCreating

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/renku/original/1X/953a60d870897ed9d8b4d24e7725a82d710ebaa0.png)