Filer for Google Cloud Computing

Question

I am looking for a filer for my GCE project. It should serve as a shared storage provider for some of my VMs.

Of course it should be fail-safe, H/A, high-performance, … ;-)

I was reading through https://cloud.google.com/solutions/filers-on-compute-engine , but this document is very vague. I was hoping to find some kind of best practices or recommendation on the web - but found nothing.

Answer 1

A file server, or storage filer in the linked document, is a program you can install and run on Google Compute Engine as they provide you with a full linux experience.

To leverage a cloud storage solution you don't need to go to this far as you can use cloud storage which should suit your need for long term storage of data.

If the data needs to be mounted (read only preferred) as a disk on every vm you can use persistend disk .

In the docs there is a flowchart to pick the best option for your use case, you can find it on the storage options page.