AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Table of Contents
What Is AWS Storage Gateway? ........................................................................................................... 1
Are You a First-Time AWS Storage Gateway User? .......................................................................... 2
How AWS Storage Gateway Works ............................................................................................... 2
File Gateways .................................................................................................................... 3
Volume Gateways ............................................................................................................... 3
Tape Gateways ................................................................................................................... 6
Pricing ...................................................................................................................................... 8
Plan Your Gateway Deployment ................................................................................................... 8
Getting Started ................................................................................................................................ 10
Sign Up for AWS Storage Gateway ............................................................................................. 10
AWS Regions ........................................................................................................................... 10
Requirements ........................................................................................................................... 10
Hardware and Storage Requirements .................................................................................. 11
Network and Firewall Requirements .................................................................................... 12
Supported Hypervisors and Host Requirements .................................................................... 20
Supported NFS Clients for a File Gateway ........................................................................... 21
Supported SMB Clients for a File Gateway ........................................................................... 21
Supported File System Operations for a File Gateway ........................................................... 21
Supported iSCSI Initiators .................................................................................................. 22
Supported Third-Party Backup Applications for a Tape Gateway ............................................. 22
Accessing AWS Storage Gateway ................................................................................................ 23
Using the Hardware Appliance ........................................................................................................... 24
Supported AWS Regions ............................................................................................................ 24
Setting Up Your Hardware Appliance .......................................................................................... 25
Rack-Mount and Plug In Your Hardware Appliance ....................................................................... 25
Configure Network Parameters .................................................................................................. 27
Activate Your Hardware Appliance .............................................................................................. 29
Launching a Gateway ................................................................................................................ 32
Configuring an IP Address for the Gateway .................................................................................. 33
Configuring Your Gateway ......................................................................................................... 34
Removing a Gateway ................................................................................................................ 34
Deleting Your Hardware Appliance ............................................................................................. 34
Creating Your Gateway ...................................................................................................................... 36
Creating a File Gateway ............................................................................................................ 36
Creating a Gateway .......................................................................................................... 36
Creating a File Share ........................................................................................................ 42
Using Your File Share ........................................................................................................ 51
Creating a Volume Gateway ....................................................................................................... 56
Creating a Gateway .......................................................................................................... 57
Creating a Volume ............................................................................................................ 63
Using Your Volume ........................................................................................................... 65
Backing Up Your Volumes ................................................................................................. 71
Creating a Tape Gateway ........................................................................................................... 75
Creating a Gateway .......................................................................................................... 75
Creating Tapes ................................................................................................................. 82
Using Your Tape Gateway .................................................................................................. 83
Activating a Gateway in a Virtual Private Cloud .......................................................................... 133
Creating a Gateway Using a VPC Endpoint ......................................................................... 134
Managing Your Gateway .................................................................................................................. 144
Managing Your File Gateway .................................................................................................... 144
Adding a File Share ........................................................................................................ 144
Deleting a File Share ....................................................................................................... 146
Editing Storage Settings for Your File Share ....................................................................... 148
Editing Metadata Defaults for Your NFS File Share .............................................................. 149
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