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- NAME
- gcloud compute storage-pools create - create a storage pool
- SYNOPSIS
gcloud compute storage-pools createSTORAGE_POOL--provisioned-capacity=PROVISIONED_CAPACITY--storage-pool-type=STORAGE_POOL_TYPE[--async][--capacity-provisioning-type=CAPACITY_PROVISIONING_TYPE][--description=DESCRIPTION][--performance-provisioning-type=PERFORMANCE_PROVISIONING_TYPE][--provisioned-iops=PROVISIONED_IOPS][--provisioned-throughput=PROVISIONED_THROUGHPUT][--zone=ZONE][GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
- DESCRIPTION
- Create a storage pool.
- EXAMPLES
- To create a new storage pool named
my-storage-pool, run thefollowing command:gcloudcomputestorage-poolscreatemy-storage-pool--storage-pool-type=hyperdisk-throughput--provisioned-capacity=10TB--provisioned-throughput=200 - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
- Storage pool resource - The name of the storage pool you want to create. Thisrepresents a Cloud resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments inthis group but can be set in other ways.
To set the
projectattribute:- provide the argument
storage_poolon the command line with a fullyspecified name; - provide the argument
--projecton the command line; - set the property
core/project.
To set the
zoneattribute:- provide the argument
storage_poolon the command line with a fullyspecified name; - provide the argument
--zoneon the command line; - set the property
compute/zone.
This must be specified.
STORAGE_POOL- ID of the storage pool or fully qualified identifier for the storage pool.
To set the
storage_poolattribute:- provide the argument
storage_poolon the command line.
- provide the argument
- provide the argument
- Storage pool resource - The name of the storage pool you want to create. Thisrepresents a Cloud resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments inthis group but can be set in other ways.
- REQUIRED FLAGS
--provisioned-capacity=PROVISIONED_CAPACITY- Provisioned capacity of the storage pool.
- Storage pool type resource - Type of the storage pool. This represents a Cloudresource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group but canbe set in other ways.
To set the
projectattribute:- provide the argument
--storage-pool-typeon the command line with afully specified name; - provide the argument
--projecton the command line; - set the property
core/project.
To set the
zoneattribute:- provide the argument
--storage-pool-typeon the command line with afully specified name; - provide the argument
--zoneon the command line; - set the property
compute/zone.
This must be specified.
--storage-pool-type=STORAGE_POOL_TYPE- ID of the storage pool type or fully qualified identifier for the storage pooltype.
To set the
storage-pool-typeattribute:- provide the argument
--storage-pool-typeon the command line.
- provide the argument
- provide the argument
- OPTIONAL FLAGS
--async- Return immediately, without waiting for the operation in progress to complete.
--capacity-provisioning-type=CAPACITY_PROVISIONING_TYPE- Capacity provisioning type.
CAPACITY_PROVISIONING_TYPEmust be one of:advanced,standard. --description=DESCRIPTION- Description of the storage pool.
--performance-provisioning-type=PERFORMANCE_PROVISIONING_TYPE- Performance provisioning type.
PERFORMANCE_PROVISIONING_TYPEmust be one of:advanced,standard. --provisioned-iops=PROVISIONED_IOPS- IOPS with which to provision the pool.
--provisioned-throughput=PROVISIONED_THROUGHPUT- Throughput in MB/s with which to provision the pool.
--zone=ZONE- For resources [storage-pool-type, storage_pool], provides fallback value forresource zone attribute. When the resource's full URI path is not provided, zonewill fallback to this flag value.
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
- These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.Run
$gcloud helpfor details. - API REFERENCE
- This command uses the
compute/v1API. The full documentation forthis API can be found at:https://cloud.google.com/compute/ - NOTES
- These variants are also available:
gcloudalphacomputestorage-poolscreategcloudbetacomputestorage-poolscreate
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Last updated 2025-07-15 UTC.