Service tiers

This page describes the service tiers that Filestore offers and provides guidance on selecting the tier that best suits your needs.

Overview

Filestore offers the following service tiers:

  • Basic HDD
  • Basic SSD
  • Zonal with a lower capacity band
  • Zonal with a higher capacity band (previously high scale SSD)
  • Enterprise

Each tier offers different capacity options and performance levels to fit different use cases. The following table shows a comparison of the tiers:

Service Tier Provisionable capacity Scalability Performance Availability Data protection Monthly pricing*
Basic HDD 1–63.9 TiB Up only in 1 GiB units Standard fixed Zonal Backups $163.84

($0.16/GiB)
Basic SSD 2.5–63.9 TiB Up only in 1 GiB units Premium fixed Zonal Backups $768.00

($0.30/GiB)
Zonal, lower capacity band 1–9.75 TiB Up or down in 256 GiB units Scales with capacity Zonal Backups (Preview),

Snapshots

 $256.00

($0.25/GiB)
Zonal, higher capacity band 10–100 TiB Up or down in 2.5 TiB units Scales with capacity Zonal Backups (Preview),

Snapshots

 $2560.00

($0.25/GiB)
Enterprise 1–10 TiB Up or down in 256 GiB units Scales with capacity Regional Backups,

Snapshots

 $460.80

($0.45/GiB)

* Reflects the estimated pricing for a Filestore instance with minimum capacity and located in region us-central1. For more information about pricing, see the Pricing page.

Basic HDD and basic SSD tiers

Basic-tier Filestore instances are suitable for file sharing, software development, and use with GKE workloads. You can choose either HDD or SSD for storing data, with SSD offering greater performance at a higher cost.

Basic HDD instances have a performance increase when the provisioned capacity exceeds 10 TiB. The performance of basic SSD instances is fixed regardless of the provisioned capacity.

Specifications

Specification Basic HDD Basic SSD
Client connections Recommended limit of 500 Recommended limit of 500
File size Up to 16 TiB Up to 16 TiB
Number of files 67,108,864 files per 1 TiB of capacity 67,108,864 files per 1 TiB of capacity
File locks 128 per Filestore instance 128 per Filestore instance
Minimum capacity 1 TiB 2.5 TiB
Maximum capacity 63.9 TiB 63.9 TiB
Scaling direction Up only Up only
Minimum scaling units 1 GiB 1 GiB
Read throughput
  • 1–10 TiB capacity: 100 MiB/s
  • 10–63.9 TiB capacity: 180 MiB/s
 1,200 MiB/s
Write throughput
  • 1–10 TiB capacity: 100 MiB/s
  • 10–63.9 TiB capacity: 120 MiB/s
 350 MiB/s
Read IOPS
  • 1–10 TiB capacity: 600
  • 10–63.9 TiB capacity: 1,000
 60,000
Write IOPS
  • 1–10 TiB capacity: 1,000
  • 10–63.9 TiB capacity: 5,000
 25,000
Availability Zonal Zonal
Data protection Backups Backups
Customer-managed encryption keys Not supported Not supported
Non-disruptive maintenance Not supported Not supported
Google Cloud VMware Engine Not supported Not supported

Zonal with capacity bands

Filestore now offers a zonal service tier with options for a higher or lower capacity band (GA). The entire service tier ranges from 1 TiB to 100 TiB in size.

Zonal with a higher capacity band

The zonal service tier with a higher capacity band replaces the previously available high scale SSD service tier. Instance capacity continues to range from 10 TiB to 100 TiB in size, and scale in increments of 2.5 TiB.

This offering is suitable for high performance computing application requirements such as genome sequencing, and financial-services trading analysis. It offers fast performance that scales with capacity and allows you to grow and shrink capacity.

This service tier and capacity band offer the same quota as the legacy high scale SSD service tier.

Zonal with a lower capacity band

The zonal service tier with a lower capacity band provides similar performance but allows you to take advantage of the following benefits:

  • Optional smaller capacity, with instances ranging from 1 TiB to 9.75 TiB in size

  • Support for scalability in increments of 256 GiB

  • Support for non-disruptive upgrades (NDUs)

When compared with basic SSD-tier instances, the lower capacity band zonal tier may provide a better option for users that require higher availability and lower capacity.

When compared with enterprise-tier instances, it may provide a more cost-effective option.

If not specified, the lower capacity band is the default setting at instance creation.

This service tier and capacity band offers a quota that matches enterprise-tier instances.

Limitations

The following feature limits apply:

  • When pricing is implemented, applicable fees apply.

  • Capacity band selection is permanent. Once the outer limits of the instance capacity are met, the service tier does not scale up or down to a new capacity band. If greater or lower capacity is needed, you must create a new instance with the desired service tier and capacity band.

Specifications

Specification Zonal with a higher capacity band Zonal with a lower capacity band
Client connections 1,000 per 10-TiB instance size 1,000 per 10-TiB instance size
File size Up to the size of the instance capacity Up to the size of the instance capacity
Number of files No practical limit No practical limit
File locks 250 per file 250 per file
Minimum capacity 10 TiB 1 TiB
Maximum capacity 100 TiB 9.75 TiB
Scaling direction Up or down Up or down
Minimum scaling units 2.5 TiB 256 GiB
Read throughput 650 MiB/s per 2.5 TiBs of provisioned capacity 650 MiB/s per 2.5 TiBs of provisioned capacity
Write throughput 220 MiB/s per 2.5 TiBs of provisioned capacity 220 MiB/s per 2.5 TiBs of provisioned capacity
Read IOPS 23,000 per 2.5 TiBs of provisioned capacity 23,000 per 2.5 TiBs of provisioned capacity
Write IOPS 6,500 per 2.5 TiBs of provisioned capacity 6,500 per 2.5 TiBs of provisioned capacity
Availability Zonal Zonal
Data protection Backups (Preview), Snapshots Backups (Preview), Snapshots
Customer-managed encryption keys Supported Supported
Non-disruptive maintenance Supported (zonal-tier instances remain available during maintenance events.) Supported (zonal-tier instances remain available during maintenance events.)
Google Cloud VMware Engine Supported Supported

Enterprise tier

Enterprise instances are designed for enterprise-grade network file system (NFS) workloads, critical applications such as SAP, and GKE workloads. It supports regional high availability and data replication over multiple zones for resilience within a region.

Specifications

Specification Details
Client connections 1,000 per 10-TiB instance size
File size Up to the size of the instance capacity
Number of files No practical limit
File locks 250 per file
Minimum capacity 1 TiB
Maximum capacity 10 TiB
Scaling direction Up or down
Minimum scaling units 256 GiB
Read throughput 120 MiB/s per 1 TiB of provisioned capacity
Write throughput 100 MiB/s per 1 TiB of provisioned capacity
Read IOPS 12,000 per 1 TiB of provisioned capacity
Write IOPS 4,000 per 1 TiB of provisioned capacity
Availability Regional
Data protection Backups, Snapshots
Customer-managed encryption keys Supported
Non-disruptive maintenance Supported (Enterprise instances remain available during maintenance events.)
Google Cloud VMware Engine Supported

Enterprise tier with Filestore multishares for GKE

A Filestore enterprise tier instance combined with the Filestore multishares for GKE feature supports up to 80 shares in the instance.

For more information, see Filestore multishares for GKE.

Quota

Quota for Filestore instances varies by region and tier. Each service tier has its own quota.

To see your available quota, go to the Quotas page in the Google Cloud console.

Go to Quotas

If you need to request additional quota, see Requesting Quota Increases.

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