Hi Google cloud team, I am a video surveillance systems installer technician . I want know if it is possible to store video surveillance recordings from HIKVISION brand cameras or NVRs on the cloud with Google cloud? THANKS
Yes, but with some assembly required. I'm guessing here, but it looks like NIKVISION supports external storage through the NFS protocol . in addition to their own managed cloud storage service. So if you want to use Cloud Storage, you have to create an NFS service that translates between the NFS protocol and GCS. You might be able to run it directly on the NIKVISION cameras or the local machine, but I don't know much about that environment. Or you can set up your own server along the lines of this: https://medium.com/scientific-breakthrough-of-the-afternoon/set-up-your-own-private-cloud-storage-wi...b.
If you are more adventurous, you can try to configure Cloud Storage as a local drive on the camera hardware. You can do that with GCSFuse. If camera firmware and machines run linux or unix, that will be very straightforward. If they run windows, you'll need another layer to glue GCSFuse to windows file systems. This article has some pointers.
A much easier solution is to use Filestore, which supports NFS out of the box. You get storage in the Cloud on your terms this way with minimum custom work. The downside is that Filestore comes in instances that have a limited size (10-100TB or so) and is more expensive than Cloud Storage.
Hello David, I have the exact same question. I would like to record and store the footage to GCP, but I was not sure what is the best way to proceed.
Could you kindly share with us the solution you went with?