AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Configuring Your Gateway
Configuring Your Gateway
After your hardware appliance has been activated and configured, your appliance appears in the console.
Now you can create the type of gateway that you want. Continue the installation for your gateway type
at the one of the configure local disks sections:
• For file gateway, see:
Configuring Local Disks (p. 41)
.
• For tape gateway, see:
Configuring Local Disks (p. 81)
.
Configuring Local Disks (p. 62)
Removing a Gateway From the Hardware
Appliance
To remove gateway software from your hardware appliance, use the following procedure. After you do
so, the gateway software is uninstalled from your hardware appliance.
To remove a gateway from a hardware appliance
1. Choose the check box for the gateway.
2. For
Actions
, choose
Remove Gateway
.
3. In the
Remove gateway from hardware appliance
dialog box, choose
Confirm
.
Note
When you delete a gateway, you can't undo the action. For certain gateway types, you can
lose data on deletion, particularly cached data. For more information on deleting a gateway,
see
Deleting Your Gateway by Using the AWS Storage Gateway Console and Removing
Deleting a gateway doesn't delete the hardware appliance from the console. The hardware appliance
remains for future gateway deployments.
Deleting Your Hardware Appliance
After you activate your Hardware Appliance in your AWS account, you might have a need to move and
activate it in a different AWS account. In this case, you first delete the appliance from the AWS account
and activate it in another AWS account. You might also want to delete the appliance completely from
your AWS account because you no longer need it. Follow these instructions to delete your hardware
appliance.
To delete your hardware appliance
1. If you have installed a gateway on the hardware appliance, you must first remove the gateway
before you can delete the appliance. For instructions on how to remove a gateway from your
Removing a Gateway From the Hardware Appliance (p. 34)
2. On the Hardware page, choose the hardware appliance you want to delete.
3. Choose
Actions
, and then choose
Delete Appliance
.
4. In the
Confirm deletion of resource(s)
dialog box, choose the confirmation check box and choose
Delete
. A message indicating successful deletion is displayed.
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