title: How to reuse an existing persistent volume claims
body: <p>I have deleted my elasticsearch cluster, but now after I've deployed a new cluster I need to access the old data that was stored on 3 Persistent Volumes PV described bellow: </p>
  
  <pre><code>NAME                       STATUS    VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS   AGE
  storage-es-data-0          Bound     pvc-19429b0b-ba42-11e7-979d-42010a840ff7   12Gi       RWO            standard       10d
  storage-es-data-1          Bound     pvc-36505962-ba42-11e7-979d-42010a840ff7   12Gi       RWO            standard       10d
  storage-es-data-2          Bound     pvc-422da328-ba42-11e7-979d-42010a840ff7   12Gi       RWO            standard       10d
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is the description of the old PV claims:</p>
  
  <pre><code>NAME                                       CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   RECLAIM POLICY   STATUS    CLAIM                              STORAGECLASS   REASON    AGE
  pvc-19429b0b-ba42-11e7-979d-42010a840ff7   12Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound     default/storage-es-data-0          standard                 10d
  pvc-36505962-ba42-11e7-979d-42010a840ff7   12Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound     default/storage-es-data-1          standard                 10d
  pvc-422da328-ba42-11e7-979d-42010a840ff7   12Gi       RWO            Delete           Bound     default/storage-es-data-2          standard                 10d
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My new deployment is described as follow:</p>
  
  <pre><code>apiVersion: apps/v1beta1
  kind: Deployment
  metadata:
    name: es-data
    labels:
      component: elasticsearch
      role: data
  spec:
    replicas: 1
    template:
      metadata:
        labels:
          component: elasticsearch
          role: data
      spec:
        initContainers:
        - name: init-sysctl
          image: busybox
          imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
          command: ["sysctl", "-w", "vm.max_map_count=262144"]
          securityContext:
            privileged: true
        containers:
        - name: es-data
          image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:5.6.3
          imagePullPolicy: Always
          ports:
          - containerPort: 9300
            name: transport
            protocol: TCP
          volumeMounts:
          - name: storage
            mountPath: /data
        volumes:
        - name: storage
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName: storage-es-data-0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After connecting my pod with a Loadblance service, I didn't find any documents. Am I missing something? And how can I use the three PV in the same POD. </p>