How Do I Purchase SFS?

Pay-per-use

1. Register an account.
   1. Visit the Huawei Cloud website at www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/.
   2. In the upper right corner of the page, click Register.
   3. Complete the registration as instructed.

2. Top up your account.
   1. Log in to the management console.
   2. Click Top Up and the top-up page is displayed.
   3. Top up the account as prompted.
   4. After the top-up is complete, close the dialog box and go back to the management console homepage.

3. Use SFS.
   1. Choose Storage > Scalable File Service to go to the SFS console.
   2. Click Create File System. You do not need to select a billing mode for an SFS Capacity-Oriented file system. Use the file system after it is created.
      

      • The SFS Capacity-Oriented file system is billed by the used storage capacity and duration of use.
      • The SFS Turbo file system is billed by the storage capacity you select during purchase and the duration of use.

Yearly/Monthly Subscription

You can purchase an SFS Capacity-Oriented or General Purpose File System resource package by clicking Buy Storage Package. Resource packages cannot be used across regions. Check your region before purchasing resource packages.

For an SFS Turbo file system, in addition to purchasing a resource package when creating the file system, you can also change to yearly/monthly billing after the file system is created.

SFS Capacity-Oriented file systems and general purpose file systems can share a resource package.

Procedure for SFS Capacity-Oriented and General Purpose File System

1. Purchase a resource package.
   1. In the upper right corner of the SFS console, click Buy Storage Package.
   2. On the displayed page, configure the parameters.

      You can view the pricing standards on Product Pricing Details.

   3. Click Next.
   4. Confirm the order information and click Submit.

      To modify the order information, click Previous and then continue with your purchase.

   5. Pay for the order.
   6. Return to the SFS console to use SFS.

      Resource packages cannot be viewed on the SFS console. To view resource packages, see How Do I Check the Usage of an SFS Capacity-Oriented Resource Package?.

   

   An SFS Capacity-Oriented or a General Purpose File System resource package can be used immediately after payment. If the package capacity is greater than the used capacity of the file system, pay-per-use billing stops immediately. The package capacity is preferentially used when you use file systems.

   SFS Capacity-Oriented and General Purpose File System resource packages cannot be expanded, but can be purchased multiple times. For details, see Can I Purchase SFS Capacity-Oriented Resource Packages When I Still Have Valid Ones in Use?

   For example, if a user purchased a 1 TB SFS Capacity-Oriented or General Purpose File System resource package for a year and created a 500 GB SFS Capacity-Oriented file system and used all 500 GB, the used capacity of the resource package is 500 GB. For how to view the resource package usage, see How Do I Check the Usage of an SFS Capacity-Oriented Resource Package? One month later, the user created another 600 GB SFS Capacity-Oriented file system (file system B). Now the purchased 1 TB capacity is used up, and the usage exceeding the package quota (76 GB) is billed on a pay-per-use basis. If you do not want to be billed pay per use, you can purchase more resource packages. For details, see Yearly/Monthly Subscription.

2. Use SFS.
   1. Choose Storage > Scalable File Service to go to the SFS console.
   2. Click Create File System. The package capacity is automatically used without any additional configuration. If you have multiple file systems, they can share the same resource package.

Procedure for SFS Turbo

Method 1: Purchase a yearly/monthly file system. Create a file system and set the billing mode to Yearly/Monthly. For details, see Create a File System.

Method 2: In the file system list, find the pay-per-use file system you want to change their billing mode, and click Change to Yearly/Monthly in the Operation column.