Create a Filestore instance by using the Google Cloud console

Create a Compute Engine VM instance to be the client

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the VM Instances page.

   Go to the Compute Engine instances page

2. Click Create Instanceand configure the instance as follows.

   • Set Nameto nfs-client .
   • Set Zoneto us-central1-c.
   • Keep the default boot disk.
   • In the Firewallsection, select the Allow HTTP trafficcheckbox.
   • Keep the network as default.

3. Click Createto create the instance.

Create a Filestore instance

This quickstart shows how to create an instance in the Regionaltier with custom performance enabled. For details on creating instances, see create an instance .

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Filestore Instancespage.

   Go to the Filestore Instances page

2. Click Create Instanceand configure the instance as follows:

   • Set Instance IDto nfs-server .
   • Set Instance typeto Regional.
   • In Capacity, enter 1 TiB .

   • In Performance, click the Custom performancetoggle to enable custom performance. By default, you get 12,000 IOPS in the Performancefield. The Scale performance with capacitycheckbox is checked, so if you change the value in the Capacityfield, performance scales accordingly. For details on configuration options, see configure performance .

   • Set Regionto us-central1.

   • Set VPC networkto default.

   • Set File share nameto vol1 .

   • Set Allocated IP rangeto Use an automatically allocated IP range.

   • Set Access controlsto Grant access to all clients.

3. Click Create.

Mount the Filestore file share on the client

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the VM Instances page.

   Go to the VM instances page

2. In the list of VM instances, click the SSHbutton for nfs-clientto open a terminal window connected to that instance.

3. Install NFS by running the following commands:

    sudo apt-get -y update &&
   sudo apt-get -y install nfs-common 
   

4. Make a mount directory for the Filestore file share by running the following command:

    sudo mkdir -p /mnt/test 
   

5. Mount the file share by running the mount command and specifying the Filestore instance IP address and file share name:

    sudo mount 10.0.0.2:/vol1 /mnt/test 
   

6. Make the file share accessible by changing the permissions:

     sudo 
     
    chmod 
     
    go 
    + 
    rw 
     
    / 
    mnt 
    / 
    test 
    
   

Create a file on the file share

1. In the terminal window that is connected to the nfs-clientinstance, create a file named testfile by running the following command:

    echo 'This is a test' > /mnt/test/testfile 
   

2. Confirm that the file was created by running the following command:

    ls /mnt/test 
   

   and verifying that testfile is listed.