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99.99% regional availability SLA
Benefits
Filestore enables application migration to cloud without requiring you to rewrite or rearchitect, accelerating and simplifying your migration.
Deploy Filestore instances easily, from the console, gCloud CLI, or using APIs. Spend less time configuring and monitoring your file storage, and more time focused on driving value for your business.
Pay for what you use, not what you don't. Automatically scale capacity up and down based on the demand of your applications.
Key features
Filestore offers low latency storage operations for applications. For workloads that are latency sensitive, like high performance computing, data analytics, or other metadata intensive applications, Filestore supports capacity up to 100 TB and throughput of 25 GB/s and 920K IOPS.
Filestore Enterprise is built for critical applications (e.g., SAP) requiring regional availability to ensure the applications are unphased in a zonal outage. Avoid the need to rewrite your applications, and jump start your migration to the cloud.
Filestore offers instantaneous backups and snapshots to help you protect your data easily. Back up data and metadata of the file share, set up a regular backup schedule, or take snapshots of your instances anytime you need. When it comes to recovering your data, recover some or all of your data from a prior snapshot recovery point in 10 minutes or less.
For apps running in GKE that require file storage, the fully managed NFS solution supports stateful and stateless applications. With an integrated and managed GKE Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, multiple pods can have shared file system access to the same data.
Filestore High Scale and Filestore Enterprise are VMware-certified as an NFS datastores with Google Cloud VMware Engine. Right-size vCPUs and storage capacity independently to meet compute and storage requirements for your storage intensive VMs. Leverage vSAN for low latency VM requirements and scale Filestore from TBs to PBs for the capacity-hungry VMs.
Our team is looking forward to working with our customers to leverage Filestore Enterprise for their GKE workloads. The 99.99% regional availability is extremely valuable to our customers looking to run mission critical applications in Google Cloud.
Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
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Documentation
Use gsutil to copy data between a Filestore instance and a Cloud Storage bucket. If migrating file systems, leverage our file transfer service.
Use cases
Many on-premises applications require a file system interface. We've made it easy to migrate your enterprise applications to the cloud with our fully managed storage service. Filestore Enterprise is built for critical applications requiring regional availability and having unstructured NFS data requirements.
Quantitative researchers and modelers require ready access to powerful compute and storage resources to deliver useful, time-to-value trading insights. Filestore High Scale is built for high performance computing (HPC) applications to access, sort, process, model, and deliver the right information to the right decision-maker at the right time.
Utilize Filestore as NFS datastores shares with GCVE to scale NFS storage alongside vSAN storage with your VMware clusters.
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.
Best for:
File sharing, GKE, software development, and web hosting
Critical applications (e.g., SAP), Compute Engine, and GKE workloads
High performance computing including genome sequencing, financial services trading analysis, and other high performance workloads.
Capacity
1-63.9 TiB (HDD)
2.5-63.9 TiB (SSD)
1-10 TiB
10-100 TiB
Max sequential read throughput (MB/s)
180 (HDD)
1,200 (SSD)
1,200
26,000
Max random read IOPS
1,000 (HDD)
60,000 (SSD)
57,000
960,000
Best for:
File sharing, GKE, software development, and web hosting
Capacity
1-63.9 TiB (HDD)
2.5-63.9 TiB (SSD)
Max sequential read throughput (MB/s)
180 (HDD)
1,200 (SSD)
Max random read IOPS
1,000 (HDD)
60,000 (SSD)
Best for:
Critical applications (e.g., SAP), Compute Engine, and GKE workloads
Capacity
1-10 TiB
Max sequential read throughput (MB/s)
1,200
Max random read IOPS
57,000
Best for:
High performance computing including genome sequencing, financial services trading analysis, and other high performance workloads.
Capacity
10-100 TiB
Max sequential read throughput (MB/s)
26,000
Max random read IOPS
960,000
Pricing
Filestore pricing is based on the following elements:
Service tier: Whether the service tier of your instance is Basic HDD (Standard), Basic SSD (Premium), Enterprise, or High Scale SSD.
Instance capacity: You are charged for the allocated storage capacity, even if it is unused.
Region: The location where your instance is provisioned.
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