AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Performing Tasks on the VM Local
Console (Volume and Tape Gateways)
Configuring Network Adapters for Your Gateway
By default, AWS Storage Gateway is configured to use the E1000 network adapter type, but you can
reconfigure your gateway to use the VMXNET3 (10 GbE) network adapter. You can also configure Storage
Gateway so it can be accessed by more than one IP address. You do this by configuring your gateway to
use more than one network adapter.
Topics
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Configuring Your Gateway to Use the VMXNET3 Network Adapter (p. 264)
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Configuring Your Gateway for Multiple NICs (p. 266)
Configuring Your Gateway to Use the VMXNET3 Network Adapter
AWS Storage Gateway supports the E1000 network adapter type in both VMware ESXi and Microsoft
Hyper-V Hypervisor hosts. However, the VMXNET3 (10 GbE) network adapter type is supported
in VMware ESXi hypervisor only. If your gateway is hosted on a VMware ESXi hypervisor, you can
reconfigure your gateway to use the VMXNET3 (10 GbE) adapter type. For more information on this
Important
To select VMXNET3, your guest operating system type must be
Other Linux64
.
Following are the steps you take to configure your gateway to use the VMXNET3 adapter:
1. Remove the default E1000 adapter.
2. Add the VMXNET3 adapter.
3. Restart your gateway.
4. Configure the adapter for the network.
Details on how to perform each step follow.
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