Choosing the right block storage is crucial for optimizing both performance and cost for your cloud workloads. Google Cloud’s Hyperdisk offers a flexible family of block storage options designed to meet diverse needs, from general purpose applications to demanding databases and scale-out file systems. Understanding the characteristics of each type is key to making the best selection.
For workloads that require a balance of performance and cost-efficiency, Hyperdisk Balanced provides solid IOPS and throughput capabilities suitable for many business-critical applications, web servers, and mid-range databases. It scales predictably with capacity.
When your application is heavily reliant on high throughput but less sensitive to extremely low latency, Hyperdisk Throughput is the ideal choice. It’s perfect for large datasets, data warehouses, log processing, and other workloads where sequential reads and writes are dominant. Its cost structure is optimized for this access pattern.
For the most demanding transactional applications, high-performance databases (like SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL), and applications requiring extremely low latency and high IOPS, Hyperdisk Extreme delivers provisioned IOPS and throughput independently of size. This allows for fine-tuning performance to meet stringent requirements for enterprise-grade applications.
For large-scale, shared access workloads like clustered file systems and big data analytics, Hyperdisk Scale is engineered to provide massively scalable throughput and IOPS suitable for peta-scale environments.
Finally, Hyperdisk Transactional is specifically designed for applications like SAP HANA and other systems requiring the highest levels of durability, consistency, and reliability for critical transactional data. It offers strong guarantees alongside excellent performance.
Selecting the appropriate Hyperdisk type involves evaluating your application’s specific requirements for IOPS, throughput, latency sensitivity, capacity needs, and cost tolerance. Matching the storage type to your workload ensures optimal efficiency and performance in the cloud.
Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-to-choose-the-right-hyperdisk-block-storage-for-your-use-case/
