Create a storage pool

Console

1. Go to the NetApp Volumes page in the Google Cloud console.

   Go to NetApp Volumes

2. Click Storage pools.

3. Click Create.

4. Under Storage pool details, complete the following actions:

   1. Enter a name for the pool in the Name field. The name must be unique for each project.

   2. Optional: Enter a description for the pool in the Description field.

5. Select a location for the pool.

6. Select a service level:

   • Standard

   • Premium

   • Extreme

7. Enter the pool capacity.

8. Under Set up connections, select the VPC you want to use. If you haven't peered your VPC, click Set up connection and complete the following steps:

   1. Enable the Service networking API.

   2. Click Use an automatically allocated IP range or to choose a CIDR manually, click Select one or more existing IP ranges or create a new one.

   3. Review your selections.

   4. Click Create connection.

      After peering is complete, a notification appears that indicates VPC peering is successful.

9. Under Active Directory policy, complete the following steps:

   1. Select the Assign an Active Directory policy to the storage pool checkbox to provision a storage pool for volumes that use LDAP, Kerberos, or any SMB protocol variations.

   2. Select a policy from the Active Directory policy list.

10. If you plan to use NFS protocol combinations, select the Enable LDAP checkbox. When you select this option, you can only create LDAP-enabled NFS volumes in the pool. You need to configure Active Directory LDAP to provide UNIX user information. If you want to create NFSv3 or NFSv4 volumes that use regular AUTH_SYS authentication, don't select the Enable LDAP checkbox.

11. Under Encryption, complete the following steps:

    1. Select Google-managed encryption key or Customer-managed encryption key (CMEK).

    2. If you select Customer-managed encryption key (CMEK), select a CMEK policy.

12. Optional: under the Labels section, click Add label to enter relevant labels for reporting and querying purposes.

13. Click Create.

gcloud

Create a storage pool:

    gcloud netapp storage-pools create POOL_NAME \
       --project=PROJECT_ID \
       --location=LOCATION \
       --capacity=CAPACITY \
       --service-level=SERVICE_LEVEL \
       --network=name=NETWORK_NAME,psa-range=PSA_RANGE

Replace the following information:

• POOL_NAME: the name of the pool you want to create. Your pool name must be unique per location.

• PROJECT_ID: the name of the project you want to create the storage pool in.

• LOCATION: the location of the pool you want to create.

• CAPACITY: the initial size of the pool in GiB. The minimum size is 2048 GiB. For the Standard service level, the minimum size is 1 TiB depending on the region or location you choose.

• SERVICE_LEVEL: the service level for your storage pool: Standard, Premium, or Extreme.

• NETWORK: the VPC for your pool.

• NAME: the name of the VPC.

• PSA_RANGE: the name of the allocated range of the Private Services Access connection.

  For more information on additional optional flags, see Google Cloud SDK documentation on volume creation.