Filestore reliability guide

Last reviewed 2023-08-07 UTC

Filestore is a managed file storage service for Google Cloud applications, with a filesystem interface and a shared filesystem for data. Filestore offers petabyte-scale online network attached storage (NAS) for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine instances.

Best practices

Filestore performance - performance settings and Compute Engine machine type recommendations, NFS mount options for best performance on Linux client VM instances, and using the fio tool to test performance. Includes recommendations for improved performance across multiple Google Cloud resources.
Filestore backups - description of Filestore backups, common use cases, and best practices for creating and using backups.
Filestore snapshots - description of Filestore snapshots, common use cases, and best practices for creating and using snapshots.
Filestore networking - networking and IP resource requirements needed to use Filestore.

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Last updated 2023-08-07 UTC.