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 Instance and configure the instance as follows.

   • Set Name to nfs-client.
   • Set Zone to us-central1-c.
   • Keep the default boot disk.
   • In the Firewall section, select the Allow HTTP traffic checkbox.
   • Keep the network as default.

3. Click Create to create the instance.

Create a Filestore instance

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

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

   Go to the Filestore Instances page

2. Click Create Instance and configure the instance as follows:

   • Set Instance ID to nfs-server.
   • Set Instance type to Regional.
   • In Capacity, enter 1 TiB.

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

   • Set Region to us-central1.

   • Set VPC network to default.

   • Set File share name to vol1.

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

   • Set Access controls to 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 SSH button for nfs-client to 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-client instance, 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.