AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Connecting to Your Volumes to a Windows Client
Red Hat iSCSI initiator
The iscsi-initiator-utils Resource Package Manager (RPM) package provides you with an iSCSI initiator
implemented in software for Red Hat Linux. The package includes a server daemon for the iSCSI
protocol.
Each type of gateway can connect to iSCSI devices, and you can customize those connections, as
described following.
Connecting to Your Volumes to a Windows Client
A volume gateway exposes volumes you have created for the gateway as iSCSI targets. For more
information, see
Connecting Your Volumes to Your Client (p. 65)
Note
To connect to your volume target, your gateway must have an upload buffer configured. If an
upload buffer is not configured for your gateway, then the status of your volumes is displayed
as UPLOAD BUFFER NOT CONFIGURED. To configure an upload buffer for a gateway in a stored
volumes setup, see
To add and configure upload buffer or cache storage (p. 223)
. To configure
an upload buffer for a gateway in a cached volumes setup, see
buffer or cache storage (p. 223)
The following diagram highlights the iSCSI target in the larger picture of the AWS Storage Gateway
architecture. For more information, see
How AWS Storage Gateway Works (Architecture) (p. 2)
.
You can connect to your volume from either a Windows or Red Hat Linux client. You can optionally
configure CHAP for either client type.
Your gateway exposes your volume as an iSCSI target with a name you specify, prepended by
iqn.1997-05.com.amazon:
. For example, if you specify a target name of
myvolume
, then the
iSCSI target you use to connect to the volume is
iqn.1997-05.com.amazon:myvolume
. For more
information about how to configure your applications to mount volumes over iSCSI, see
Your Volumes to a Windows Client (p. 365)
.
To
See
Connect to your volume from Windows.
Connecting Your Volumes to Your Client (p. 65)
the Getting Started section
Connect to your volume from Red Hat Linux.
Connecting to a Microsoft Windows Client (p. 84)
Configure CHAP authentication for Windows and
Red Hat Linux.
Configuring CHAP Authentication for Your iSCSI
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