Getting Started (SFS Capacity-Oriented)

Scenarios

SFS provides high-performance network-attached storage (NAS) that is scalable on demand. A shared file system can be shared with multiple Elastic Cloud Servers (ECSs) and Bare Metal Servers (BMSs). If you need a fully hosted shared file storage and want to access a file system on multiple ECSs, SFS is perfect for you.

The following describes how to call the API for Creating a Shared File System. For details, see Making an API Request.

Prerequisites

You need to plan the region where a file system resides and determine the endpoint for calling an API based on the region. It can be obtained from Regions and Endpoints.

Creating a Shared File System

{
   "share": {
       "description": "test description",
       "share_type": "default",
       "name": "share_London",
       "metadata": {
           "key1": "value1",
           "key2": "value2"
       },
       "share_proto": "NFS",
       "size": 10,
       "is_public": false
   }
}

• description: Specifies the description of the shared file system, which adds remarks to the shared file system.
• share_type: Specifies the name of a share type. A share type is used to specify the type of the storage service to be allocated.
• share_proto: Specifies the protocol types of the shared file system.
• name: Specifies the custom name of the shared file system. For example, share_London.
• size: Specifies the size (in GB) of the shared file system.
• is_public: Specifies the visibility level of the shared file system. If it is set to true, the file system can be seen publicly. If it is set to false, the file system can be seen privately. The default value is false.
• metadata: Specifies the metadata information of the shared file system. The value consists of one or more key and value pairs organized as a dictionary of strings.

Creating an Encrypted Shared File System

You can also encrypt a shared file system. You only need to add parameters related to encryption of a shared file system to the metadata of the request body. The following is an example:

{
   "share": {
       "share_type": null,
       "name": "test",
       "snapshot_id": null,
       "description": "test description",
       "metadata": {
           "#sfs_crypt_key_id": "9130c90d-73b8-4203-b790-d49f98d503df",
           "#sfs_crypt_domain_id": "3b2d9670690444c582942801ed7d457b",
           "#sfs_crypt_alias": "sfs/default"
       },
       "share_proto": "NFS",
       "share_network_id": null,
       "size": 1,
       "is_public": false
   }
}

• #sfs_crypt_key_id: Specifies the encryption key ID. If #sfs_crypt_key_id, #sfs_crypt_domain_id, and #sfs_crypt_alias exist at the same time, the data encryption function is enabled.
• #sfs_crypt_domain_id: Specifies the tenant domain ID. If #sfs_crypt_domain_id, #sfs_crypt_key_id, and #sfs_crypt_alias exist at the same time, the data encryption function is enabled.
• #sfs_crypt_alias: Specifies the encryption key alias. If #sfs_crypt_alias, #sfs_crypt_key_id, and #sfs_crypt_domain_id exist at the same time, the data encryption function is enabled.