AWS Storage Gateway - Performance Guidance for Tape Gateways

AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Performance Guidance for Tape Gateways
Performance Guidance for Tape Gateways
In this section, you can find configuration guidance for provisioning hardware for your tape gateway VM.
The Amazon EC2 instance sizes and types that are listed in the table are examples, and are provided for
reference.
Configuration Read/Write from/to cache Read/Write from/to Cloud
 Write Gbps Read Gbps Write Gbps Read Gbps
Host Platform: Amazon EC2
instance—c5.4xlarge
Cache disk: 150 GB
Upload buffer: 150 GB
CPU: 16vCPU | RAM: 32 GB
Minimum network
performance: 10 Gbps
2.3 3.2 1.2 0.6
Host Platform: Storage
Gateway Hardware
Appliance
Cache disk: 2.5 TB
Upload buffer: 2 TB
CPU: 20 cores | RAM: 128 GB
Minimum network
performance: 10 Gbps
1.4 4.3 1.4 0.5
Host Platform: Amazon
EC2instance—c5d.9xlarge
Cache disk: 450 GB NVMe
Upload buffer: 450 GB
NVMe
CPU: 36 vCPU | RAM: 72 GB
Minimum network
performance: 10Gbps
2.7 3.9 1.3 0.7
Note
This performance was achieved by using1 MB block size and 4 tape drives simultaneously.
For additional information, see Use a Larger Block Size for Tape Drives (p. 288) and Optimize the
Performance of Virtual Tape Drives in the Backup Software (p. 288).
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