AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Supported NFS Clients for a File Gateway
• VMware ESXi Hypervisor (version 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0 or 6.5)—A free version of VMware is available on
. For this setup, you also need a VMware vSphere client to connect to the host.
• Microsoft Hyper-V Hypervisor (version 2008 R2, 2012, or 2012 R2)—A free, standalone version of
Hyper-V is available at the
. For this setup, you need a Microsoft Hyper-V
Manager on a Microsoft Windows client computer to connect to the host.
• EC2 instance—AWS Storage Gateway provides an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that contains the
gateway VM image. Only file, cached volume, and tape gateway types can be deployed on Amazon
EC2. For information about how to deploy a gateway on Amazon EC2, see
Gateway on an Amazon EC2 Host (p. 349)
.
• Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance—AWS Storage Gateway provides a physical hardware appliance
as a on-premises deployment option for locations with limited virtual machine infrastructure.
Note
AWS Storage Gateway doesn’t support recovering a gateway from a VM that was created from
a snapshot or clone of another gateway VM or from your Amazon EC2 AMI. If your gateway
VM malfunctions, activate a new gateway and recover your data to that gateway. For more
information, see
Recovering from an Unexpected Virtual Machine Shutdown (p. 338)
AWS Storage Gateway doesn’t support dynamic memory and virtual memory ballooning.
Supported NFS Clients for a File Gateway
File gateways support the following Network File System (NFS) clients:
• Amazon Linux
• Mac OS X
• RHEL 7
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2016. Native clients
only support NFS version 3.
• Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008.
Native clients only support NFS v3. The maximum supported NFS I/O size is 32 KB, so you might
experience degraded performance on these versions of Windows.
Note
You can now use SMB file shares when access is required through Windows (SMB) clients
instead of using Windows NFS clients.
Supported SMB Clients for a File Gateway
File gateways support the following Service Message Block (SMB) clients:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and later
• Windows desktop versions: 10, 8, and 7.
• Windows Terminal Server running on Windows Server 2003 and later
Supported File System Operations for a File Gateway
Your NFS or SMB client can write, read, delete, and truncate files. When clients send writes to AWS
Storage Gateway, it writes to local Cache synchronously. Then it writes to Amazon S3 asynchronously
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