Create a storage pool quickstart

This page provides the quickstart instructions for how to create a storage pool.

Before you begin

Ensure that you've completed the following steps before you use NetApp Volumes:

1. Set up a project in Google Cloud console.

2. Configure networking.

3. Assign NetApp Volumes Identity and Access Management permissions.

If you plan to explore multiple tutorials and quickstarts, reusing projects can help you avoid exceeding project quota limits.

Considerations

This quickstart guide assumes you intend to use NFS volumes to create a storage pool. If you want to use SMB volumes, you need to select and define an Active Directory policy before you can proceed, see Create an Active Directory policy.

Create a storage pool

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 in the Name field for your storage pool. The name must be unique for each project.

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

5. Select a location for the pool.

6. Select a service level.

   • Flex

     For the Flex service level, you can choose between zonal or regional availability. For zonal availability, you need to specify the zone to use. For regional availability, you need to specify a primary zone and a replica zone.

   • Standard

   • Premium

   • Extreme

7. Optional: for Flex zonal pools, you can customize performance in some regions. Under Performance, complete the following steps:

   1. Enter the throughput for the storage pool in the Throughput field.

   2. Enter the IOPS for the storage pool in the IOPS field.

8. Enter the capacity for the storage pool in the Capacity field.

9. 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 click Select one or more existing IP ranges or create a new one to manually choose a CIDR.

   3. Review your selections.

   4. Click Create connection.

10. Disable the Assign an Active Directory policy to the storage pool checkbox.

11. Leave the defaulted encryption to Google-owned and Google-managed encryption key as is.

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

Clean up

Use the following instructions to delete a storage pool:

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

   Go to NetApp Volumes

2. Click Storage pools.

3. Select the storage pool you want to delete.

4. Click Delete.

5. To confirm deletion, enter the name of the storage pool.

6. Click Delete.

   The storage pool and its contents are deleted.

What's next

Read the quickstart guide for how to create a volume.