Create a storage pool quickstart

This page provides the quickstart instructions for how to create a storage pool.

Before you begin

Ensure that you've completed the following steps before you use NetApp Volumes:

1. Set up a project in Google Cloud console.

2. Configure networking.

3. Assign NetApp Volumes Identity and Access Management permissions.

If you plan to explore multiple tutorials and quickstarts, reusing projects can help you avoid exceeding project quota limits.

Considerations

This quickstart guide assumes you intend to use NFS volumes to create a storage pool. If you want to use SMB volumes, you need to select and define an Active Directory policy before you can proceed, see Create an Active Directory policy.

Create a storage pool

1. Go to the NetApp Volumes page in the Google Cloud console.

   Go to NetApp Volumes

2. Click Storage pools.

3. Enter a name in the Name field for your storage pool.

4. Optional: Add a description in the Description field.

5. Select a location.

6. Select a service level.

   When you select the Flex service level, you must specify a zone for zonal pools, or an active and a replica zone for regional pools.

7. Enter the pool capacity.

8. Under Set up connections, select the VPC you want to use. If you haven't peered your VPC, click Set up connection and complete the following steps:

   1. Enable the Service networking API.

   2. Click Use an automatically allocated IP range or click Select one or more existing IP ranges or create a new one to manually choose a CIDR.

   3. Review your selections.

   4. Click Create connection.

9. Disable the Assign an Active Directory policy to the storage pool checkbox.

10. Leave the defaulted encryption to Google-managed encryption key as is.

11. Optional: Under the Labels section, click Add label to enter relevant labels for reporting and querying purposes.

Clean up

Use the following instructions to delete a storage pool:

1. Go to the NetApp Volumes page in the Google Cloud console.

   Go to NetApp Volumes

2. Click Storage pools.

3. Select the storage pool you want to delete.

4. Click Delete.

5. To confirm deletion, enter the name of the storage pool.

6. Click Delete.

   The storage pool and its contents are deleted.

What's next

Read the quickstart guide for how to create a volume.