September 19, 2024
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, a fully managed, secure, and performant file storage service that supports SAP, Microsoft, and Linux-based applications, added support for large capacity volumes that provides up to 1 PiB in storage capacity and up to 12.5 GiB/s of throughput in a single volume. With large volumes, you can quickly and easily deploy a variety of workloads that need to store and process petabyte scale datasets including HPC, EDA, AI/ML training, and content repositories with high throughput (single digit GiB/sec) and concurrent access.
Large volumes enable customers to provision a single volume starting at 15 TiB that can be scaled up to 1 PiB dynamically in increments of 1 GiB. The performance of the volume scales linearly with provisioned capacity and the service level selected up to a maximum of 12.5 GiB/s. Additionally, large capacity volumes running on the Extreme service level can use multiple endpoints (IP addresses) to load-balance traffic and achieve higher performance, ideal for workloads requiring highly concurrent access to a large data set. Large volumes allow customers to bring petabyte-scale datasets used in EDA workloads, AI applications, and content data repositories to benefit from data management features like snapshots, clones, and cross-region replication now available on a single volume. Before today, customers had to select performance or capacity-optimized options for workloads with petabyte-scale datasets or run their workloads by partitioning their data across multiple volumes.
Additional details on large volumes can be found in the product documentation.