diff --git a/pages/file-storage/menu.ts b/pages/file-storage/menu.ts index 0f4ae716e6..bf2b4b7120 100644 --- a/pages/file-storage/menu.ts +++ b/pages/file-storage/menu.ts @@ -63,8 +63,12 @@ export const fileStorageMenu = { { items: [ { - label:'File Storage limitations', - slug:'limitations' + label:'File Storage and Instances selection', + slug:'file-system-instance-selection' + }, + { + label:'Performance scaling', + slug:'performance-scaling' }, ], label:'Additional content', diff --git a/pages/file-storage/reference-content/file-system-instance-selection.mdx b/pages/file-storage/reference-content/file-system-instance-selection.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dc09bffa8e --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/file-storage/reference-content/file-system-instance-selection.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +--- +title: File Storage and Instances selection guidelines +description: This page explains how to provision the right file system for your Instance based on your use case. +tags: instances file sizing provisioning file system scaling +dates: + validation: 2026-01-27 + posted: 2026-01-27 +--- + +Scaleway File Storage performance (IOPS and throughput) scales linearly with your provisioned capacity. To avoid bottlenecks, you must pair your file system with Instances that matches its performance profile and supports the required number of mount points. + +Refer to the [dedicated documentation](/file-storage/reference-content/performance-scaling/) for more information on performance scaling. + +## Select the right file system capacity for your Instance + +To optimize storage costs and avoid throttling your file system at the Instance level, refer to the use cases below to provision a file system with capacity adapted to your requirements. + +### Small-scale applications and production environments + +Ideal for lightweight web servers, small-scale production environments, and low-traffic repositories. + +- **Provisioning range:** 25 GB to 100 GB +- **Recommended instances:** POP2-2C (or any 2 vCPU General Purpose Instance), BASIC3-X, BASIC2 + + +Ideal for one or two mount points to maintain a stable network baseline. + + +### Business applications and production environments + +Ideal for medium-sized CMS web applications, application servers, corporate media file sharing, and CI/CD runner cache sharing. + +- **Provisioning range:** 100 GB to 500 GB +- **Recommended instances:** POP2-4C, STANDARD3-X4C + + +These Instances provide the necessary network overhead to handle the increased throughput of mid-range storage. + + +### High-performance and data-intensive workloads + +Ideal for AI/ML fine-tuning and inference, video encoding, and throughput-intensive applications. + +- **Provisioning range:** Above 1 TB +- **Recommended instances:** Any GPU instance, or CPU instances with 8 cores or more. + + +Above 1 TB, File Storage delivers significant throughput. Only high-core count or GPU instances have the network capacity required to ingest this level of data without latency. + + +## File system attachments per Instance type + +To ensure optimum performance, the number of file systems you can attach to an Instance is limited based on the Instance's configuration. + +Use the following [Scaleway CLI](/scaleway-cli/quickstart/) command to find the maximum number of file systems you can attach to a Scaleway Instance. Do not forget to replace the value of the `zone` parameter with the desired Availability Zone: + +```bash +scw instance server-type list zone=fr-par-2 +``` + + +The availability of Instances types varies between Availability Zones, some offers may be missing in the table below. + + +| NAME | CPU | GPU | RAM | ARCH | MAX FILE SYSTEMS | +|---------------------|-----|-----|---------|--------|------------------| +| BASIC3-X2C-4G | 2 | 0 | 4 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| BASIC3-X2C-8G | 2 | 0 | 8 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| BASIC3-X4C-8G | 4 | 0 | 8 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| COMPUTE3-X2C-4G | 2 | 0 | 4 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| MEMORY3-X2C-16G | 2 | 0 | 16 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| POP2-HC-2C-4G | 2 | 0 | 4 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| POP2-2C-8G | 2 | 0 | 8 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| POP2-HC-4C-8G | 4 | 0 | 8 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| POP2-4C-16G | 4 | 0 | 16 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| POP2-HM-4C-32G | 4 | 0 | 32 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| POP2-HN-3 | 2 | 0 | 4 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| POP2-HN-5 | 4 | 0 | 8 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| POP2-HN-10 | 4 | 0 | 8 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| STANDARD2-A2C-8G | 2 | 0 | 8 GiB | arm64 | 1 | +| STANDARD3-X2C-8G | 2 | 0 | 8 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | +| BASIC3-X4C-16G | 4 | 0 | 16 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | +| BASIC3-X8C-16G | 8 | 0 | 16 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | +| COMPUTE3-X4C-8G | 4 | 0 | 8 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | +| L4-1-24G | 8 | 1 | 48 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | +| MEMORY3-X4C-32G | 4 | 0 | 32 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | +| POP2-HM-2C-16G | 2 | 0 | 16 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | +| POP2-HC-8C-16G | 8 | 0 | 16 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | +| POP2-8C-32G | 8 | 0 | 32 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | +| POP2-HM-8C-64G | 8 | 0 | 64 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | +| STANDARD2-A4C-16G | 4 | 0 | 16 GiB | arm64 | 2 | +| STANDARD3-X4C-16G | 4 | 0 | 16 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | +| BASIC3-X8C-32G | 8 | 0 | 32 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | +| BASIC3-X16C-32G | 16 | 0 | 32 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | +| COMPUTE3-X8C-16G | 8 | 0 | 16 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | +| COMPUTE3-X16C-32G | 16 | 0 | 32 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | +| L4-2-24G | 16 | 2 | 96 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | +| MEMORY3-X8C-64G | 8 | 0 | 64 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | +| MEMORY3-X16C-128G | 16 | 0 | 128 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | +| POP2-HC-16C-32G | 16 | 0 | 32 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | +| POP2-16C-64G | 16 | 0 | 64 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | +| POP2-HM-16C-128G | 16 | 0 | 128 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | +| STANDARD2-A8C-32G | 8 | 0 | 32 GiB | arm64 | 4 | +| STANDARD2-A16C-64G | 16 | 0 | 64 GiB | arm64 | 4 | +| STANDARD3-X8C-32G | 8 | 0 | 32 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | +| STANDARD3-X16C-64G | 16 | 0 | 64 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | +| BASIC3-X16C-64G | 16 | 0 | 64 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| COMPUTE3-X32C-64G | 32 | 0 | 64 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| COMPUTE3-X48C-96G | 48 | 0 | 96 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| COMPUTE3-X64C-128G | 64 | 0 | 128 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| COMPUTE3-X96C-192G | 96 | 0 | 192 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| L4-4-24G | 32 | 4 | 192 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| MEMORY3-X32C-256G | 32 | 0 | 256 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| MEMORY3-X48C-384G | 48 | 0 | 384 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| POP2-HC-32C-64G | 32 | 0 | 64 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| POP2-32C-128G | 32 | 0 | 128 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| POP2-HM-32C-256G | 32 | 0 | 256 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| STANDARD2-A32C-128G | 32 | 0 | 128 GiB | arm64 | 8 | +| STANDARD2-A48C-192G | 48 | 0 | 192 GiB | arm64 | 8 | +| STANDARD2-A64C-256G | 64 | 0 | 256 GiB | arm64 | 8 | +| STANDARD3-X32C-128G | 32 | 0 | 128 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| STANDARD3-X48C-192G | 48 | 0 | 192 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| STANDARD3-X64C-256G | 64 | 0 | 256 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | +| POP2-HC-48C-96G | 48 | 0 | 96 GiB | x86_64 | 12 | +| POP2-48C-192G | 48 | 0 | 192 GiB | x86_64 | 12 | +| POP2-HM-48C-384G | 48 | 0 | 384 GiB | x86_64 | 12 | +| L4-8-24G | 64 | 8 | 384 GiB | x86_64 | 16 | +| POP2-HC-64C-128G | 64 | 0 | 128 GiB | x86_64 | 16 | +| POP2-64C-256G | 64 | 0 | 256 GiB | x86_64 | 16 | +| POP2-HM-64C-512G | 64 | 0 | 512 GiB | x86_64 | 16 | \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/pages/file-storage/reference-content/limitations.mdx b/pages/file-storage/reference-content/limitations.mdx deleted file mode 100644 index c893bf8907..0000000000 --- a/pages/file-storage/reference-content/limitations.mdx +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: File Storage limitations -description: This page lists the limitations of Scaleway File Storage. -tags: limits limitations scaleway file storage file system -dates: - validation: 2026-01-27 - posted: 2026-01-27 ---- - -## Maximum number of file systems attached - -To ensure optimum performance, the number of file systems you can attach to an Instance is limited based on the Instance's configuration, as shown in the table below. - -| NAME | CPU | GPU | RAM | ARCH | MAX FILE SYSTEMS | -|------------------|-----|-----|---------|--------|------------------| -| L4-1-24G | 8 | 1 | 48 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | -| L4-2-24G | 16 | 2 | 96 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | -| L4-4-24G | 32 | 4 | 192 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | -| L4-8-24G | 64 | 8 | 384 GiB | x86_64 | 16 | -| POP2-HC-2C-4G | 2 | 0 | 4.0 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | -| POP2-2C-8G | 2 | 0 | 8.0 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | -| POP2-HM-2C-16G | 2 | 0 | 16 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | -| POP2-HC-4C-8G | 4 | 0 | 8.0 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | -| POP2-4C-16G | 4 | 0 | 16 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | -| POP2-HM-4C-32G | 4 | 0 | 32 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | -| POP2-HC-8C-16G | 8 | 0 | 16 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | -| POP2-HN-3 | 2 | 0 | 4.0 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | -| POP2-8C-32G | 8 | 0 | 32 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | -| POP2-HM-8C-64G | 8 | 0 | 64 GiB | x86_64 | 2 | -| POP2-HC-16C-32G | 16 | 0 | 32 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | -| POP2-HN-5 | 4 | 0 | 8.0 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | -| POP2-16C-64G | 16 | 0 | 64 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | -| POP2-HN-10 | 4 | 0 | 8.0 GiB | x86_64 | 1 | -| POP2-HM-16C-128G | 16 | 0 | 128 GiB | x86_64 | 4 | -| POP2-HC-32C-64G | 32 | 0 | 64 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | -| POP2-32C-128G | 32 | 0 | 128 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | -| POP2-HC-48C-96G | 48 | 0 | 96 GiB | x86_64 | 12 | -| POP2-HM-32C-256G | 32 | 0 | 256 GiB | x86_64 | 8 | -| POP2-HC-64C-128G | 64 | 0 | 128 GiB | x86_64 | 16 | -| POP2-48C-192G | 48 | 0 | 192 GiB | x86_64 | 12 | -| POP2-64C-256G | 64 | 0 | 256 GiB | x86_64 | 16 | -| POP2-HM-48C-384G | 48 | 0 | 384 GiB | x86_64 | 12 | -| POP2-HM-64C-512G | 64 | 0 | 512 GiB | x86_64 | 16 | - - -You can find the maximum number of file systems you can attach to a Scaleway Instance using the following [Scaleway CLI](/scaleway-cli/quickstart/) command: -```bash -scw instance server-type list -``` - \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/pages/file-storage/reference-content/performance-scaling.mdx b/pages/file-storage/reference-content/performance-scaling.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1ce981c750 --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/file-storage/reference-content/performance-scaling.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +title: File Storage performance scaling +description: This page explains how throughput and IOPS of a file system scale with provisioned capacity when using Scaleway File Storage. +tags: instances file sizing provisioning file system scaling +dates: + validation: 2026-04-08 + posted: 2026-04-08 +--- + +## Performance scaling + +Scaleway File Storage architecture follows a "pay-as-you-grow" model where IOPS and throughput scale linearly as you provision more capacity for a file system. This guarantees consistent and predictable performance that you can adjust according to your needs. + +Both IOPS and throughput reach their maximum values at 2 TB of provisioned capacity. Provisioning beyond 2 TB increases available storage, but does not further increase performance. + +### IOPS + +Baseline +: 1,000 IOPS at 25 GB + +Scaling rate +: +12 IOPS per provisioned GB + +Maximum +: 25,000 IOPS at 2 TB + +IOPS scale linearly between the baseline and the maximum. Beyond 2 TB of provisioned capacity, IOPS remain capped at 25,000. + +**Example:** A file system provisioned with 100 GB delivers approximately 1,900 IOPS (1,000 + 75 * 12). + +### Throughput + +Baseline +: 4 MB/s at 25 GB + +Scaling rate +: +0.1 MB/s per provisioned GB + +Maximum +: 200 MB/s at 2 TB + +Throughput scales linearly between the baseline and the maximum. Beyond 2 TB of provisioned capacity, throughput remains capped at 200 MB/s. + +**Example:** A file system provisioned with 100 GB delivers approximately 11.5 MB/s (4 + 75 * 0.1). \ No newline at end of file