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AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Performing Tasks on the VM Local
Console (Volume and Tape Gateways)
To remove the default E1000 adapter and configure your gateway to use the VMXNET3
adapter
1. In VMware, open the context (right-click) menu for your gateway and choose Edit Settings.
2. In the Virtual Machine Properties window, choose the Hardware tab.
3. For Hardware, choose Network adapter. Notice that the current adapter is E1000 in the Adapter
Type section. You will replace this adapter with the VMXNET3 adapter.
4. Choose the E1000 network adapter, and then choose Remove. In this example, the E1000 network
adapter is Network adapter 1.
Note
Although you can run the E1000 and VMXNET3 network adapters in your gateway at the
same time, we don't recommend doing so because it can cause network problems.
5. Choose Add to open the Add Hardware wizard.
6. Choose Ethernet Adapter, and then choose Next.
7. In the Network Type wizard, select VMXNET3 for Adapter Type, and then choose Next.
8. In the Virtual Machine properties wizard, verify in the Adapter Type section that Current Adapter is
set to VMXNET3, and then choose OK.
9. In the VMware VSphere client, shut down your gateway.
10. In the VMware VSphere client, restart your gateway.
After your gateway restarts, reconfigure the adapter you just added to make sure that network
connectivity to the Internet is established.
To configure the adapter for the network
1. In the VSphere client, choose the Console tab to start the local console. You will use the default
login credentials to log in to the gateway's local console for this configuration task. For information
about how to log in using the default credentials, see Logging in to the Local Console Using Default
Credentials (p. 252).
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