Get instance information

This page shows you how to get information about Filestore instances.

Before you begin

If you want to use the command-line examples in this page, enable the gcloud command-line tool by installing the gcloud CLI.

View all instances in a project

Google Cloud console

You can get information about your Filestore instances, and view all instances in a project, by going to the Filestore instances page:

Go to the Filestore instances page

gcloud

You can get information about your Filestore instances, and view all instances in a project, by running the instances list command:

  gcloud filestore instances list --project=project-id --zone=zone

where:

  • project-id is the project ID of the Google Cloud project that contains the Filestore instance. You can skip this flag if the Filestore instance is in the gcloud default project. You can set the default project by running:

      gcloud config set project project-id

  • zone is the zone for which you want to list Filestore instances. If you skip this flag, instances in all zones are returned. Run the gcloud filestore zones list command to get a list of supported zones.

The response to the instances list command is similar to the following:

INSTANCE_NAME  ZONE            TIER       CAPACITY_GB  FILE_SHARE_NAME  IP_ADDRESS  STATE   CREATE_TIME
nfs-loc        europe-west1-b  BASIC_HDD  1024         nfs1             10.0.5.2    READY   2017-10-09T22:11:28
nfs3           us-central1-c   BASIC_HDD  1024         acme             10.0.6.2    READY   2017-11-06T09:37:18

Example

The following command lists the Filestore instances in project myproject:

  gcloud filestore instances list --project=myproject

REST API

  1. Have gcloud CLI installed and initialized, which lets you generate an access token for the Authorization header.

  2. Use cURL to call the Filestore API:

    curl -s \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  GET "https://file.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT/locations/LOCATION/instances"

    Where:

    • PROJECT is the name of the project where your instance is located. For example, my-genomics-project.
    • LOCATION is the location you want to search. To search all instances in any location within a project, use -.

Get information about a specific instance

Use one of the following procedures to get information about a specific Filestore instance.

Google Cloud console

  1. Go to the Filestore instances page.

    Go to the Filestore instances page

  2. Click the instance ID to open the instance details page.

gcloud

Get information about a Filestore instance by running the instances describe command:

    gcloud filestore instances describe instance-id --project=project-id --location=location

The response to the instances describe command is similar to the following:

createTime: '2021-10-11T17:28:23.340943077Z'
fileShares:
- capacityGb: '1024'
 name: vol1
kmsKeyName: projects/example-project/locations/us-central1/keyRings/example-ring/cryptoKeys/example-key
labels:
 key:val
name: projects/yourproject/locations/us-central1-c/instances/nfs-server
networks:
- ipAddresses:
 - 10.0.0.2
 network: default
 reservedIpRange: 10.0.0.0/26
state: READY
tier: ENTERPRISE

These fields represent the following values:

  • createTime: The time the instance was created, in RFC 3339 format.
  • fileShares:
  • capacityGb: The size of the Filestore file share in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB = 10243 bytes.
  • name: The name of the Filestore file share. You use the file share name with the IP address identified by the ipAddresses value to mount the file share on a client.
  • name: The fully qualified name of the instance.
  • ipAddresses: The IP address for the instance. To mount the Filestore file share on a client, use this value along with the file share name.
  • network: The name of the VPC network that the instance uses.
  • reservedIpRange: The IP address block reserved for the use of the instance.
  • state: The state of the instance.
  • tier: The Filestore service tier of the instance.

Example

The following command provides information about the test-nfs instance in project myproject, in zone us-central1-c.

gcloud filestore instances describe test-nfs --project=myproject --zone=us-central1-c

REST API

  1. Have gcloud CLI installed and initialized, which lets you generate an access token for the Authorization header.

  2. Use cURL to call the Filestore API:

    curl -s \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  GET "https://file.googleapis.com/v1beta1/projects/PROJECT/locations/LOCATION/instances/INSTANCE_NAME"

    Where:

    • PROJECT is the name of the project where your instance is located. For example, my-genomics-project.
    • LOCATION is the location where your instance resides. For example, us-west1-a.
    • INSTANCE_NAME is the name of the instance you want to view. For example, my-genomics-instance.

Get information about Filestore instance mounts

The following sections show you how to get different kinds of instance mount information.

List the mount points for an instance

You can list all mount points where a Filestore instance is mounted by running:

    sudo showmount -a INSTANCE_IP

Example

The following command lists all mount points for a Filestore instance with the IP address 10.77.67.226:

    sudo showmount -a 10.77.67.226

The response looks similar to the following:

All mount points on 10.77.67.226:
10.128.0.1:/fileshare
10.128.0.2:/fileshare
10.128.0.3:/fileshare

Get the number of mount points for an instance

You can get the total number of mount points for a Filestore instance by running:

    sudo showmount -a INSTANCE_IP --no-headers | wc -l

Example

The following command displays the number of mount points for an instance with the IP address 10.77.67.226:

    sudo showmount -a 10.77.67.226 --no-headers | wc -l

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