Storage best practices

This page presents information about storage best practices for Google Cloud VMware Engine.

VMware Engine supports three storage backends: vSAN, Filestore, and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Each of these have their own sets of best practices and fine-tuning recommendations.

• For vSAN storage best practices, see Storage Design Considerations in the vSAN Design Guide.

• For best practices pertaining to Filestore, a Google-native file-sharing product, see Optimize and test instance performance.

• For best practices pertaining to Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, a first-party Google offering for NetApp storage in the cloud, see Performance considerations.

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