Quotas and limits

This document lists the quotas and limits that apply to Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.

A quota limit restricts how much of a shared Google Cloud resource your Google Cloud project can use, including hardware, software, and network components. Therefore, quota limits are a part of a system that does the following:

  • Monitors your use or consumption of Google Cloud products and services.
  • Restricts your consumption of those resources for reasons, which include ensuring fairness and reducing spikes in usage.
  • Maintains configurations that automatically enforce prescribed restrictions.
  • Provides a means to request or make changes to the quota.

In most cases, when a quota limit is exceeded, the system immediately blocks access to the relevant Google resource, and the task that you're trying to perform fails. In most cases, quota limits apply to each Google Cloud project and are shared across all applications and IP addresses that use that Google Cloud project.

To increase or decrease most quota limits, use the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Request a higher quota limit.

There are also limits on NetApp Volumes resources. These limits are unrelated to the quota system. Limits cannot be changed unless otherwise stated.

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes use is subject to limits and default quotas. Limits can't be changed, however, you can request a quota increase. To learn more, see Request a quota increase.

Considerations

NetApp Volumes feature limits vary by location and region.

Backup limits

Resource Limit
Number of backups per volume 1,000
Total number of scheduled backups (daily, weekly, and monthly) 1,000
Number of volumes with backups configured per region 10

Storage pool limits

Resource Limit
Minimum pool capacity
  • Standard service level: 1 TiB to 2 TiB depending on the region you select. For more information, see NetApp Volumes key features table.
  • Premium and Extreme service levels: 2 TiB
Maximum pool capacity 500 TiB

Networking limits

Resource Limit
Number of VPC networks per project 5

Volume limits

Resource Default quota
Volumes per region 100
Resource Limit
Minimum capacity of a single volume
  • Standard service level: 1 GiB or 100 GiB depending on the region you select. For more information, see NetApp Volumes key features table.
  • Premium and Extreme service levels: 100 GiB
Maximum capacity of a single volume 100 TiB
Number of snapshots per volume 255
Number of backups per volume 1,000
Maximum capacity of a single file 16 TiB
Maximum size of a single directory 3.4 million files
Maximum number of files (maxfiles) per volume. For more information, see Maxfiles limit. 100 million
Maximum filename length 255 characters
Maximum number of NFS export rules per volume 5
Maximum length of an NFS export rule 4,096 characters

Network File System (NFS) limits

Resource Limit
Maximum number of UNIX groups supported for LDAP-enabled volumes 1,024

Volume replication limits

Resource Quota
Replicated volumes per region 5

Maxfiles limit

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes has a limit called maxfiles. The maxfiles limit is the number of files a volume can contain. The maxfiles limit for a volume is indexed based on volume capacity.

The maxfiles limit for a volume increases or decreases at the rate of 20 million files per TiB of volume capacity.

The service dynamically adjusts the maxfiles limit for a volume based on its provisioned capacity. For example, a volume initially configured with a capacity of 1 TiB would have a maxfiles limit of 20 million. Subsequent changes to the capacity of the volume result in an automatic readjustment of the maxfiles limit based on the following rules:

Volume capacity Automatic readjustment of the maxfiles limit
< 1 TiB 20 million
≥ 1 TiB but < 2 TiB 40 million
≥ 2 TiB but < 3 TiB 60 million
≥ 3 TiB but < 4 TiB 80 million
≥ 4 TiB 100 million

If you need to increase the maxfiles limit beyond 100 million, contact Cloud Customer Care. Every additional 100 million maxfiles require an additional 4 TiB of capacity. For example, a 300 million maxfiles limit requires at least 12 TiB of additional capacity.

Request a quota increase

To increase or decrease most quotas, use the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Request a higher quota limit.