Filestore
High-performance, fully managed file storage.
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Fully managed network attached storage (NAS) for Compute Engine and GKE instances
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Predictable price for performance
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Scales to 100s of TBs for high-performance workloads
Benefits
Predictable performance
Filestore provides a consistent view of your filesystem data and steady performance over time. With speeds up to 480K IOPS and 16 GB/s, trust your infrastructure to handle your highest performance workloads.
Elasticity to meet big compute needs
With High Scale, meet the needs of your high- performance business. If requirements change, easily grow or shrink your instances via the Google Cloud Console GUI, gcloud command line, or via API-based controls.
Simple to provision, easy to mount
Filestore is a fully managed, NoOps service. Easily mount file shares on Compute Engine VMs. Filestore is also tightly integrated with Google Kubernetes Engine so containers can reference the same shared data.
Key features
Key features
Support your highest performance workloads
Filestore offers low latency for file operations. For workloads that are latency sensitive, like electronic design automation (EDA), media rendering, data analytics, or other metadata intensive applications, Filestore supports capacity up to 320 TB and throughput of 16 GB/s and 480K IOPS, with minimal variability in performance.
Expedite migration of enterprise applications
Many enterprise applications are reliant on file semantics and capabilities. Filestore enables migration to cloud without requiring you to rewrite your most business-critical applications, which accelerates and simplifies your migration.
Full NFSv3 support
Filestore offers native compatibility with existing enterprise applications and supports any NFSv3-compatible client. Applications gain the benefit of features such as scaleout performance, 100s of TBs of capacity, and file locking, without the need to install or maintain any specialized plugins or client side software.
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Documentation
Documentation
Using the Google Cloud Console
Learn how to create, mount, and delete a Filestore instance using the Google Cloud Console.
Using the gcloud command-line tool
Learn how to create, mount, and delete a Filestore instance using the gcloud command-line tool.
Copying data
Use gsutil to copy data between a Filestore instance and a Cloud Storage bucket, or use gcloud to copy data from your environment to a Filestore instance.
Instance tiers
Filestore offers multiple instance tiers to meet different storage and performance needs.
Use cases
Use cases
Many on-premises applications require a filesystem interface to data. As these applications continue to migrate to the cloud, Filestore can support a broad range of enterprise applications that need a shared filesystem.
You can easily mount Filestore file shares on Compute Engine instances, enabling visual effects artists to collaborate on the same file share. As rendering workflows typically run across fleets (“render farms”) of compute machines, all of which mount a shared filesystem, Filestore and Compute Engine can scale to meet your job’s rendering needs.
EDA is all about data management. It requires the ability to batch workloads across thousands of cores and has large memory needs. Filestore offers the necessary capacity and scale to meet the needs of manufacturing customers doing intensive EDA and also makes sure files are universally accessible.
Compute complex financial models or analyze environmental data with Filestore. As capacity or performance needs change, easily grow or shrink your instances as needed. As a persistent and shareable storage layer, Filestore enables immediate access to data for high-performance, smart analytics without the need to lose valuable time on loading and off-loading data to clients’ drives.
Genome sequencing requires an incredible amount of raw data, on the order of billions of data points per person. This type of analysis requires speed, scalability, and security. Filestore meets the needs of companies and research institutions performing scientific research, while also offering predictable prices for the performance.
Web developers and large hosting providers rely on Filestore to manage and serve web content, including needs such as WordPress hosting.
Pricing
Pricing
Filestore offers three performance tiers:
| Compare | Basic (HDD) | Basic (SSD) | High Scale (SSD) |
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| Best for | General purpose, test/dev | High performance, limited capacity | Highest performance, large capacities |
| Capacity | 1–63.9 TB | 2.5–63.9 TB | 60–320 TB |
| Max throughput | 180 MB/s (10+ TB) | 1.2 GB/s | 16 GB/s |
| Max IOPS | 5,000 | 60,000 | 480,000 |
| Pricing | See Filestore pricing for more information | See Filestore pricing for more information | See Filestore pricing for more information |
Partners
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