Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

Managing persistent disks

There are several operations that can be taken on a persistent disk, including the following:

• Creating and deleting persistent disks
• Attaching and detaching disks to instances
• Creating and restoring snapshots of persistent disks
• Resizing persistent disks

All of these operations can be completed through the Cloud Console, the Compute Engine APIs, or using the gcloud command-line tool. As an exercise, let's create a new persistent disk for our hello-gce instance.

First, create a new persistent disk. We'll create a 10 GB standard persistent disk named example-spd. Note that, in practice, persistent disks smaller than 200 GB suffer serious performance decreases, but 10 GB will be fine for our purposes. To create the ...