Google Multi-Zone Storage for VMs with Regional Persistent Disk

Google Compute Engine solution that offers 0% RPO, is production-ready, and provides high availability for your mission-critical workloads? You only need to look at Google Regional Persistent Disk

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For many of the mission-critical high availability storage requirements of Google Cloud customers, Regional PD is a strong fit and meets all of these criteria

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Potential storage problems that could prevent the VM from booting and from data loss from VMs that rely on the boot disc for data, such as Windows VMs

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Using the Google Cloud console, gcloud, Terraform, and REST APIs, you can add Regional PDs

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Users get 5GB of Regional PD disk storage for their terminal’s home directory with each Cloud Shell terminal session

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Replication of zones on discs for local persistent discs Regional Persistent Disk volumes hold disc data in primary and secondary zones

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For disc attachment, the primary zone is the same as the VM instance

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To ensure longevity, the data of each zonal replica is distributed among several physical machines in the zone For more details govindhtech.com

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