AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Shutting Down Your Gateway VM
Maintaining Your Gateway
Maintaining your gateway includes tasks such as configuring cache storage and upload buffer space, and
doing general maintenance your gateway's performance. These tasks are common to all gateway types.
If you haven't created a gateway, see
.
Topics
•
Shutting Down Your Gateway VM (p. 219)
•
Managing Local Disks for Your AWS Storage Gateway (p. 220)
•
Managing Bandwidth for Your Gateway (p. 224)
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Managing Gateway Updates Using the AWS Storage Gateway Console (p. 228)
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Performing Maintenance Tasks on the Local Console (p. 229)
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Deleting Your Gateway by Using the AWS Storage Gateway Console and Removing Associated
Shutting Down Your Gateway VM
You might need to shutdown or reboot your VM for maintenance, such as when applying a patch to
your hypervisor. Before you shutdown the VM, you must first stop the gateway. For file gateway, you
just shutdown your VM. Although this section focuses on starting and stopping your gateway using the
AWS Storage Gateway Management Console, you can also and stop your gateway by using your VM local
console or AWS Storage Gateway API. When you power on your VM, remember to restart your gateway.
• Gateway VM local console—see
Logging in to the Local Console Using Default Credentials (p. 252)
• AWS Storage Gateway API-—see
Note
If you stop your gateway while your backup software is writing or reading from a tape, the write
or read task might not succeed. Before you stop your gateway, you should check your backup
software and the backup schedule for any tasks in progress.
For file gateway, you simply shutdown your VM. You don't shutdown the gateway.
Starting and Stopping a Volume or Tape Gateway
The following instructions apply to volume and tape gateways only.
To stop a volume or tape gateway
1. Open the AWS Storage Gateway console at
https://console.amazonaws.cn/storagegateway/home
.
2. In the navigation pane, choose
Gateways
, and then choose the gateway to stop. The status of the
gateway is
Running
.
3. On the
Actions
menu, choose
Stop gateway
and verify the id of the gateway from the dialog box,
and then choose
Stop gateway
.
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