Create NetApp Storage Pool - SET UP CONNECTIONS NETWORK issue

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I am using this CREATE-STORAGE-POOL quick start guide:
https://cloud.google.com/netapp/volumes/docs/get-started/quickstarts/create-storage-pool
At step 8 under CREATE A STORAGE POOL it says:

Under SET UP CONNECTIONS, select the VPC you want to use. If you haven’t peered your VPC, click “Set up connection” and complete the following steps:
a.Enable the “Service networking API”
b.Click “Use an automatically allocated IP range” or click “Select one or more
existing IP ranges or create a new one” to manually choose a CIDR.

There is no button here to Enable the Service networking API, but I found the SERVICE-NETWORKING-API and enabled it.
For step 8.b none of those options appear for me to click on. So I am not sure how to continue setting up networking for my storage pool.
Can some one help.

Ultimately once I create this storage pool I will create a 100gb NETAPP VOLUME from that storage pool.
Then I will mount that volume on two of my GCE VMs as a directory called /mySharedData that both VM servers will write to.

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Hi @tacoma50 ,

Welcome to Google Cloud Community!

As you are following the documentation guide for creating a storage pool and encountered a problem specifically in setting up a connection under step 8.

Here are some of the reasons and basic guides to consider:

  • Step 8 : Use an existing VPC if you already have a VPC simply select it during step 8. If you don’t have a VPC yet, you’ll need to create one first. Kindly see this Create VPC & Configuring Networking that will help you through this process.
  • After selecting a VPC, the Set up connection steps will only show if you haven’t peered your VPC. If you’ve already peered it, you won’t see the additional steps.

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  • Step 8a to 8d : It will only show after clicking the Set up connection.

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For additional workaround that might help:

  • You can enable the Service Networking API by searching it in the search bar and click enable.
  • If the Setup connection still doesn’t show after enabling the Service Networking API try to refresh your browser.

I hope the above information is helpful.

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Hi @almirajean ,

Thanks for providing the information. I am following this exact steps for the set up. But then I got the following error message. Is there any other way to set this up? What is the difference between doing it here and setting up a private service access under VPC network?

The error message:
We encountered a problem while creating a connection. Cannot modify allocated ranges in CreateConnection. Please use UpdateConnection. Help Token: AYJSUtkQfnPG-bxeHoWc9p-5sDQHUkQk0YZZjdC6XzmJQvdXOq_Cg3rM7-Uo9dD2TnujjfJhnuMGyV_KwLC9k5UfcC5bb_lWujS_V5L5JIp2b7Fo

I tried various way of setting this up but all lead to error.

  • Automatic setup using the the scheme mentioned above.
  • First ALLOCATED IP RANGES FOR SERVICES from VPC network with range /24 or /28 either from Console or CLI and then use the automatic setup scheme mentioned above.

Thanks.

Update :

I am not sure whether this solves the problem. But I could follow the suggestion
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55135559/unable-to-recreate-private-service-access-on-gcp
using force update to set up the NetApp connection.