AWS Storage Gateway - Maintaining Your Gateway; Shutting down Your Gateway VM; Starting and Stopping a Volume or Tape Gateway

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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 Creating Your Gateway (p. 36).

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)

• Managing Gateway Updates Using the AWS Storage Gateway Console (p. 228)

• Performing Maintenance Tasks on the Local Console (p. 229)

• Deleting Your Gateway by Using the AWS Storage Gateway Console and Removing Associated

Resources (p. 281)

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 ShutdownGateway

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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