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GSP1310

Overview

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is a fully managed data storage service that lets you move file-based applications to Google Cloud. It has support for Network File System (NFSv3 and NFSv4.1) and Server Message Block (SMB) protocols built-in, so you don't need to re-architect your applications and can continue to get persistent storage for your applications.

In this lab you will learn how to resize the Google Cloud NetApp Volumes capacity.

Objectives

In this lab you will learn how to:

• Grow the Google Cloud NetApp Volumes volume capacity.
• Shrink the Google Cloud NetApp Volumes volume capacity.
• Understand the performance impact of the volume resize.

Prerequisites

• A basic understanding of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.

Setup and requirements

Before you click the Start Lab button

Read these instructions. Labs are timed and you cannot pause them. The timer, which starts when you click Start Lab, shows how long Google Cloud resources will be made available to you.

This Qwiklabs hands-on lab lets you do the lab activities yourself in a real cloud environment, not in a simulation or demo environment. It does so by giving you new, temporary credentials that you use to sign in and access Google Cloud for the duration of the lab.

What you need

To complete this lab, you need:

• Access to a standard internet browser (Chrome browser recommended).
• Time to complete the lab.

Note: If you already have your own personal Google Cloud account or project, do not use it for this lab.

Note: If you are using a Pixelbook, open an Incognito window to run this lab.

How to start your lab and sign in to the Google Cloud Console

1. Click the Start Lab button. If you need to pay for the lab, a pop-up opens for you to select your payment method. On the left is a panel populated with the temporary credentials that you must use for this lab.

   

2. Copy the username, and then click Open Google Console. The lab spins up resources, and then opens another tab that shows the Sign in page.

   

   Tip: Open the tabs in separate windows, side-by-side.

3. In the Sign in page, paste the username that you copied from the Connection Details panel. Then copy and paste the password.

   Important: You must use the credentials from the Connection Details panel. Do not use your Qwiklabs credentials. If you have your own Google Cloud account, do not use it for this lab (avoids incurring charges).

4. Click through the subsequent pages:

   • Accept the terms and conditions.
   • Do not add recovery options or two-factor authentication (because this is a temporary account).
   • Do not sign up for free trials.

After a few moments, the Cloud Console opens in this tab.

Activate Cloud Shell

Cloud Shell is a virtual machine that is loaded with development tools. It offers a persistent 5GB home directory and runs on the Google Cloud. Cloud Shell provides command-line access to your Google Cloud resources.

In the Cloud Console, in the top right toolbar, click the Activate Cloud Shell button.

Click Continue.

It takes a few moments to provision and connect to the environment. When you are connected, you are already authenticated, and the project is set to your PROJECT_ID. For example:

gcloud is the command-line tool for Google Cloud. It comes pre-installed on Cloud Shell and supports tab-completion.

You can list the active account name with this command:

gcloud auth list

(Output)

Credentialed accounts: - <myaccount>@<mydomain>.com (active)

(Example output)

Credentialed accounts: - google1623327_student@qwiklabs.net

You can list the project ID with this command:

gcloud config list project

(Output)

[core] project = <project_ID>

(Example output)

[core] project = qwiklabs-gcp-44776a13dea667a6

Task 1. Mount the volume

1. In the Google Cloud console search bar (), type NetApp Volumes and select the result to open the service.

2. In the navigation pane, click Volumes. A volume (volume1) has already been created for this lab.

3. Open Compute Engine → VM Instances in a new browser tab and click the SSH button for vm1.

4. Return to the NetApp Volumes page. In the row for the volume (volume1), click the overflow menu (), then select Mount Instructions.

5. Run the following commands from the Mount instructions into the SSH window in the following order:

• Install the nfs utilities on the Linux VM:

sudo apt-get install nfs-common -y

• Create a directory in the VM:

sudo mkdir /share1

• Mount the volume by copying the sudo mount command from the Mount instructions and running it in the SSH terminal. The command includes the unique IP address of the volume. It will look like the command below:

sudo mount -t nfs -o rw,hard,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,vers=3,tcp <IP_ADDRESS>:/share1 /share1 Note: Please run the mount command exactly as it appears in your specific Mount instructions panel, as the IP address in this command is unique to your volume.

• Verify that the volume has been mounted to your VM successfully:

df -h | grep share1

Click Check my progress to verify that you've performed the above task. Mount the volume

Task 2. Test the performance

The NetApp Volumes Premium and Extreme service levels provide performance based on the provisioned volume capacity. The volume capacity defines the throughput limit, independent of the storage pool capacity.

Adding or removing volume capacity to or from an existing volume increases or decreases the maximum throughput limit of the volume.

1. To test the maximum performance of the existing 1 TiB Premium volume, run the following command in the SSH terminal:

sudo fio --directory=/share1 --ioengine=libaio --rw=write --bs=64k --iodepth=24 --size=50g --fallocate=none --direct=1 --runtime=9000 --time_based --ramp_time=5 --numjobs=8 --name=netappvolumes

The last line of the output shows that the maximum performance the volume can achieve is around 64 MiBps ([w=64.0MiB/s]). This is because the Premium service level provides up to 64 KiBps per GiB of provisioned volume capacity and the volume capacity is 1024 GiB.

The performance is calculated as follows:

• Performance = Volume capacity x Service Level performance
• Performance = 1024 GiB x 64 KiBps/GiB = 64 MiBps

2. To stop the performance test, press CTRL+C.

Task 3. Grow the Google Cloud NetApp Volumes capacity

1. Go to the NetApp Volumes page in the Google Cloud console.
2. In the navigation pane, click Volumes.
3. Click volume1, then click Edit.
4. Under Volume details, set the volume capacity to 2048, then click Save.
5. To verify that the virtual machine sees the new 2 TiB capacity without any modification or downtime, run the following command in the SSH terminal:

df -h | grep share1

6. To test the maximum performance of the current 2 TiB Premium volume, run the following command:

sudo fio --directory=/share1 --ioengine=libaio --rw=write --bs=64k --iodepth=24 --size=50g --fallocate=none --direct=1 --runtime=9000 --time_based --ramp_time=5 --numjobs=8 --name=netappvolumes

The last line of the output shows that the maximum performance the volume can achieve is around 128 MiBps ([w=128.0MiB/s]). This is because the Premium service level provides up to 64 KiBps per GiB of provisioned volume capacity and the volume capacity is 2048 GiB.

The performance is calculated as follows:

• Performance = Volume capacity x Service Level performance
• Performance = 2048 GiB x 64 KiBps/GiB = 128 MiBps

7. To stop the performance test, press CTRL+C.

Click Check my progress to verify that you've performed the above task. Grow the volume capacity

Task 4. Shrink the Google Cloud NetApp Volumes capacity

1. Go to the NetApp Volumes page in the Google Cloud console.
2. In the navigation pane, click Volumes.
3. Click volume1, then click Edit.
4. Under Volume details, set the volume capacity to 512, then click Save.
5. To verify that the virtual machine sees the new 512 GiB capacity without any modification or downtime, run the following command in the SSH terminal:

df -h | grep share1

6. To test the maximum performance of the current 512 GiB Premium volume, run the following command:

sudo fio --directory=/share1 --ioengine=libaio --rw=write --bs=64k --iodepth=24 --size=50g --fallocate=none --direct=1 --runtime=9000 --time_based --ramp_time=5 --numjobs=8 --name=netappvolumes

The last line of the output shows that the maximum performance the volume can achieve is around 32 MiBps ([w=32.0MiB/s]). This is because the Premium service level provides up to 64 KiBps per GiB of provisioned volume capacity and the volume capacity is 512 GiB.

The performance is calculated as follows:

• Performance = Volume capacity x Service Level performance
• Performance = 512 GiB x 64 KiBps/GiB = 32 MiBps

7. To stop the performance test, press CTRL+C.

Click Check my progress to verify that you've performed the above task. Shrink the volume capacity

Congratulations!

You have learned how to grow and shrink a volume without any modification or downtime, and the performance implication based in the volume capacity.

Next steps / Learn more

Be sure to check out the official NetApp Volumes documentation:

• NetApp Volumes documentation

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Manual last updated January 6, 2026

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