Hi, everyone, and welcome to this lesson. In this lesson, I am going to perform a demonstration that shows you how to create a snapshot of a regional persistent disk in the Google Cloud Console. So, let's jump right in.

On the screen here, you'll see that I'm logged in to my GCP console. To create a snapshot, I need to browse to Compute Engine and then to Snapshots. From this Snapshots page, I can begin the process by clicking Create Snapshot at the top here. I need to give my snapshot a name. If I hover over the question mark here, it tells me the name that I use must start with a lower case letter and it must be followed up with up to 62 additional lower case letters, numbers or hyphens. The name that I use cannot end in a hyphen. I'll call this snapshot "mysnapshot". The description here is optional, so I'll just leave it blank for this exercise.

Using the Source Disk dropdown here, I can choose the disk that I want to snapshot. I'm going to snapshot myvm here. In this Location section here, I need to tell GCP where to store my snapshot. I also have to decide if I want to store it in one region or if I want to make the snapshot multi-region. A region is a specific geographical place, like London, for example. A multi-region is a large geographical area, like the United States, for example, that contains two or more geographic places. If I choose multi-region here, my snapshot becomes geo-redundant. I'll leave these options at their defaults here and, as a result, my snapshot is going to be stored in the same location as my source disk that I'm snapshotting.

Under Labels here, I can add a label if I want to. You would typically use labels to organize your environment. I'm not going to bother here. At this point, I can click Create to create my snapshot. Now obviously, my snapshot can take a little while to create, so we'll let this complete. After my snapshot is created, I can click on it from my list of snapshots. In here I can view the details of my snapshot.