AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Setting Up Your Hardware Appliance
Setting Up Your Hardware Appliance
After you receive your AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance, you use the hardware appliance
console to configure networking to provide an always-on connection to AWS and activate your appliance.
Activation associates your appliance with the AWS account that is used during the activation process.
After the appliance is activated, you can launch a file, volume, or tape gateway types in the AWS Storage
Gateway console.
To install and configure your hardware appliance
1. Rack-mount the appliance, and plug in power and network connections. For more information, see
Rack-Mount Your Hardware Appliance and Connect It to Power (p. 25)
2. Set the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses for both the hardware appliance (the host) and
Storage Gateway (the service). For more information, see
Configure Network Parameters (p. 27)
.
3. Activate the hardware appliance on the console
Hardware
page in the AWS Region of your choice.
Activate Your Hardware Appliance (p. 29)
.
4. Install the Storage Gateway on your hardware appliance. For more information, see
.
You set up gateways on your hardware appliance the same way that you set up gateways on a
VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor or an Amazon EC2 instance.
Increasing the usable cache storage
You can increase the usable storage on the hardware appliance from 5 TB to 12 TB. This provides a
larger cache for low latency access to data in AWS. To increase the usable storage to 12 TB, you can buy
five 1.92 TB SSDs (solid state drives), which is available on the Amazon Website, and add them to the
hardware appliance before you activate it. If you have already activated the hardware appliance and
want to increase the usable storage on the appliance to 12 TB, do the following:
1. First, reset the hardware appliance to its factory settings. Contact AWS support for instructions on
how to do this.
2. Add five 1.92 TB SSDs to the appliance.
For instructions on how to do this, see the
in the
Dell EMCPowerEdgeR640 Installation and Service
Manual
.
Using a fiber optic network card instead of copper network card
The hardware appliance comes with a 10 gigabit copper network card but you can replace it with a 10
gigabit fiber optic network card that AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance supports. The specific
fiber optic network card that the hardware appliance supports is the Dell Intel X710 Quad Port 10GB
Da/SFP+ Network Daughter Card. You can buy it from the hardware appliance product page on the
Amazon website. For instructions on how to install the card, see,
in the
Dell
EMCPowerEdgeR640 Installation and Service Manual
.
Rack-Mount Your Hardware Appliance and Connect
It to Power
After you unbox your AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance, follow the instructions contained in
the box to rack-mount the server. Your appliance has a 1U form factor and fits into a 19-inch rack to
the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) industry standard, as described on the
Wikipedia page.
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