Provision storage volume resources

After ordering storage resources for your Bare Metal Solution environment, you can provision the resources once they are available. You can provision the following self-service options:

  • Create a new Fibre Channel storage volume
  • Create LUNs on a volume
  • Attach a storage volume to a server

Create a new storage volume

This feature lets you provision storage that you have previously ordered. To order storage volumes, contact Google Cloud Sales.

To create a new storage volume, follow these steps:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Compute Engine > Bare Metal Solution > Volumes menu.

  2. Click Create.

  3. Enter the following information:

    Field Description Example
    Region Google Cloud region located closest to your Bare Metal Solution environment. us-central1
    Name Create a name for your storage volume. volume-1
    Type Select the type of storage:
    • SSD – Solid state drive
    • HDD – Hard drive
    		 SSD
    Performance tier If you selected the SSD storage type, select the performance tier of the SSD drive:
    • Standard – Select to create a standard SSD drive.
    • Performance – Select to create a performance SSD drive.
    		Performance
    Size Select the size of the drive in GiB, where 1024 GiB = 1 TiB. The size ranges from a minimum of 100 GiB to a maximum of 16 TiB. If you need more than 16 TiB, create additional volumes as needed.

    For Performance SSD drive, the maximum size is 8 TiB per volume.     		16384
    Snapshot enabled Saves a backup copy of your storage volume once per day. Required for custom snapshots, but disabled by default. Checkbox selected to enable snapshots
    Configuration Select the type of LUN configuration you need:
    • Default configuration – Create LUNs of equal size (recommended).
    • Custom configuration – Create LUNs with different sizes.
    		 Default configuration
    Target server Select a server and attach the storage volume. server-1

  4. Click Create.

  5. The console checks if there is enough space available for the requested storage volume. The console implements the change if there is available space, or alerts you if the operation cannot be performed. If your storage volume request succeeds, billing for the additional storage begins automatically.

  6. After you have provisioned the storage volume, you can share it with additional servers.

Create LUNs on a storage volume

To create LUNs for a storage volume, follow these steps:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Compute Engine > Bare Metal Solution > Volumes menu.

  2. Click the name of the storage volume on which you want to create a LUN.

  3. Next to the LUNs section, click Create.

  4. Enter the following information:

    Field Description Example
    Number of LUNs Total number of LUNs you want to create with a particular size. 4
    Size Select the size of the LUN in GiB, where 1024 GiB = 1 TiB. 1024

  5. Click Add item if you need to create more than one set of LUNs.

  6. Click Create to deploy the new LUNs.

Attach a storage volume to a server

You can attach multiple storage volumes to a server at once.

To attach a storage volume to a server, follow these steps:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Compute Engine > Bare Metal Solution > Servers page.

  2. Click the name of the server to which you want to attach a storage volume.

  3. In the LUNs section, click Attach Volumes.

  4. From the Target volumes list, select the storage volume you want to attach. You can also select multiple storage volumes.

  5. Click Attach volumes.

You can also attach the same storage volume to other servers in parallel. Go to the Servers page and repeat this procedure for all the other servers.