diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/CacheManager.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/CacheManager.scala
index 064819275e00..e906c74f8a5e 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/CacheManager.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/CacheManager.scala
@@ -113,7 +113,9 @@ class CacheManager extends Logging with AdaptiveSparkPlanHelper {
       planToCache: LogicalPlan,
       tableName: Option[String],
       storageLevel: StorageLevel): Unit = {
-    if (lookupCachedData(planToCache).nonEmpty) {
+    if (storageLevel == StorageLevel.NONE) {
+      // Do nothing for StorageLevel.NONE since it will not actually cache any data.
+    } else if (lookupCachedData(planToCache).nonEmpty) {
       logWarning("Asked to cache already cached data.")
     } else {
       val sessionWithConfigsOff = getOrCloneSessionWithConfigsOff(spark)
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DatasetSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DatasetSuite.scala
index 324695349787..0683fc4694e0 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DatasetSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DatasetSuite.scala
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
 import org.apache.spark.sql.internal.SQLConf
 import org.apache.spark.sql.test.SharedSparkSession
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
+import org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel
 
 case class TestDataPoint(x: Int, y: Double, s: String, t: TestDataPoint2)
 case class TestDataPoint2(x: Int, s: String)
@@ -2597,6 +2598,11 @@ class DatasetSuite extends QueryTest
         parameters = Map("cls" -> classOf[Array[Int]].getName))
     }
   }
+
+  test("SPARK-45386: persist with StorageLevel.NONE should give correct count") {
+    val ds = Seq(1, 2).toDS().persist(StorageLevel.NONE)
+    assert(ds.count() == 2)
+  }
 }
 
 class DatasetLargeResultCollectingSuite extends QueryTest