Cloud Storage And Filestore

Question 1

Cloud Storage Example Uses

Answer 1

Archiving, disaster recovery, website content, distribute large objects to user via direct download

Question 2

Cloud Storage Classes

Answer 2

-Standard: Hot data, brief periods. No min storage duration, no retrieval cost
-Nearline: Infrequently accessed like backups. 30 day min. Some retrieval cost
-Coldline: Infrequently accessed. 90 day min. Some retrieval cost
-Archive: 365 day min. No SLA

Question 3

Cloud Storage Import Options

Answer 3

-Transfer appliance: HW solution - rack, capture, and ship to Google
-Storage Transfer: Import online data (another bucket, an S3 bucket, or a web source)
-Offline Media Import: Third party provider uploads the data from physical media

Question 4

Cloud Storage Object Lifecycle Management

Answer 4

-Ex: downgrade storage class on objects older than a year
-Ex: Delete objects created before date X
-Ex: Keep only 3 most recent versions of an object
-Can take 24 hours to apply

Question 5

Cloud Storage Versioning

Answer 5

Objects are immutable. Version for deleting or overriding

Question 6

Cloud Storage Misc Features

Answer 6

Buckets: globally unique name. Cannot be nested
Customer supplied encryption key (CSEK)
Object change notification
Provides strong global consistency - shouldn’t get stale resource errors
Directory sync - VM directory to bucket

Question 7

Filestore Example Uses

Answer 7

-Application migration: support shared file system
-Media rendering
-Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
-Data analytics
-Genomics processing
-Web content management

Question 8

Filestore Misc Features

Answer 8

Managed file storage service
Managed network attached storage for Compute Engine and GKE instances
Full NFSv3 support