AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Editing Access Settings for Your NFS File Share .................................................................. 150
Editing Access Settings for Your SMB File Share ................................................................. 150
Refreshing Objects in Your Amazon S3 Bucket ................................................................... 153
Using S3 Object Lock with File Gateway ............................................................................ 154
Understanding File Share Status ....................................................................................... 154
File Share Best Practices .................................................................................................. 155
Managing Your Volume Gateway .............................................................................................. 156
Adding a Volume ............................................................................................................ 156
Expanding the Size of a Volume ....................................................................................... 157
Cloning a Volume ........................................................................................................... 157
Viewing Volume Usage .................................................................................................... 159
Deleting a Volume .......................................................................................................... 160
Moving Your Volumes to a Different Gateway .................................................................... 160
Reducing the Amount of Billed Storage on a Volume .......................................................... 162
Creating a One-Time Snapshot ......................................................................................... 162
Editing a Snapshot Schedule ............................................................................................ 162
Deleting Snapshots ......................................................................................................... 163
Understanding Volume Status and Transitions .................................................................... 171
Managing Your Tape Gateway .................................................................................................. 178
Adding Tapes ................................................................................................................. 178
Archiving Tapes .............................................................................................................. 180
Moving a Tape from Glacier to Deep Archive ...................................................................... 180
Retrieving Archived Tapes ................................................................................................ 181
Viewing Tape Usage ........................................................................................................ 181
Deleting Tapes ............................................................................................................... 182
Disabling Your Tape Gateway ........................................................................................... 182
Understanding Tape Status .............................................................................................. 183
Monitoring Your Gateway and Resources ........................................................................................... 185
Understanding Gateway Metrics ............................................................................................... 185
AWS Storage Gateway Metrics .......................................................................................... 185
Dimensions for AWS Storage Gateway Metrics .................................................................... 196
Monitoring the Upload Buffer .................................................................................................. 196
Monitoring Cache Storage ....................................................................................................... 198
Monitoring Your File Share ...................................................................................................... 199
Getting Notified About File Operations ............................................................................. 199
Understanding File Share Metrics ..................................................................................... 203
Monitoring Your Volume Gateway ............................................................................................ 204
Using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics ................................................................................... 205
Measuring Performance Between Your Application and Gateway ........................................... 206
Measuring Performance Between Your Gateway and AWS .................................................... 207
Understanding Volume Metrics ......................................................................................... 210
Monitoring Your Tape Gateway ................................................................................................ 212
Using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics ................................................................................... 213
Measuring Performance Between Your Tape Gateway and AWS ............................................ 213
Logging Storage Gateway API Calls with AWS CloudTrail ............................................................. 215
Storage Gateway Information in CloudTrail ........................................................................ 216
Understanding Storage Gateway Log File Entries ................................................................ 216
Maintaining Your Gateway ............................................................................................................... 219
Shutting Down Your Gateway VM ............................................................................................. 219
Starting and Stopping a Volume or Tape Gateway .............................................................. 219
Managing Local Disks .............................................................................................................. 220
Deciding the Amount of Local Disk Storage ....................................................................... 220
Sizing the Upload Buffer ................................................................................................. 221
Sizing Cache Storage ...................................................................................................... 222
Configuring an Upload Buffer and Cache Storage ............................................................... 223
Using Ephemeral Storage With EC2 Gateways .................................................................... 223
Managing Bandwidth .............................................................................................................. 224
API Version 2013-06-30
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