Mount an SMB fileshare

Last reviewed 2023-06-06 UTC

To use the Google Cloud console to mount an SMB fileshare, follow these instructions:

1. In the Google Cloud console navigation menu, click PowerScale and then click Clusters. The PowerScale Clusters page opens.

2. Click the name of the cluster you want to manage.

3. From the fileshares listing located in the PowerScale Cluster Details page, click More next to the fileshare you want to mount and then click Mount instructions.

4. Follow the instructions in the Mount Instructions for SMB window to complete the process.

Note: The value of the Capacity Used listed under Fileshares in the PowerScale Cluster Detail page reports a different capacity from the actual used capacity. The SMB Client reports a metadata overhead of 8 KB.

What's next

• Create a fileshare
• Mount an NFS fileshare
• Change a fileshare
• Delete a fileshare