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AWS Storage Gateway User Guide

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What Is AWS Storage Gateway? ........................................................................................................... 1

Are You a First-Time AWS Storage Gateway User? .......................................................................... 2

How AWS Storage Gateway Works ............................................................................................... 2

File Gateways .................................................................................................................... 3

Volume Gateways ............................................................................................................... 3

Tape Gateways ................................................................................................................... 6

Pricing ...................................................................................................................................... 8

Plan Your Gateway Deployment ................................................................................................... 8

Getting Started ................................................................................................................................ 10

Sign Up for AWS Storage Gateway ............................................................................................. 10

AWS Regions ........................................................................................................................... 10

Requirements ........................................................................................................................... 10

Hardware and Storage Requirements .................................................................................. 11

Network and Firewall Requirements .................................................................................... 12

Supported Hypervisors and Host Requirements .................................................................... 20

Supported NFS Clients for a File Gateway ........................................................................... 21

Supported SMB Clients for a File Gateway ........................................................................... 21

Supported File System Operations for a File Gateway ........................................................... 21

Supported iSCSI Initiators .................................................................................................. 22

Supported Third-Party Backup Applications for a Tape Gateway ............................................. 22

Accessing AWS Storage Gateway ................................................................................................ 23

Using the Hardware Appliance ........................................................................................................... 24

Supported AWS Regions ............................................................................................................ 24

Setting Up Your Hardware Appliance .......................................................................................... 25

Rack-Mount and Plug In Your Hardware Appliance ....................................................................... 25

Conﬁgure Network Parameters .................................................................................................. 27

Activate Your Hardware Appliance .............................................................................................. 29

Launching a Gateway ................................................................................................................ 32

Conﬁguring an IP Address for the Gateway .................................................................................. 33

Conﬁguring Your Gateway ......................................................................................................... 34

Removing a Gateway ................................................................................................................ 34

Deleting Your Hardware Appliance ............................................................................................. 34

Creating Your Gateway ...................................................................................................................... 36

Creating a File Gateway ............................................................................................................ 36

Creating a Gateway .......................................................................................................... 36

Creating a File Share ........................................................................................................ 42

Using Your File Share ........................................................................................................ 51

Creating a Volume Gateway ....................................................................................................... 56

Creating a Gateway .......................................................................................................... 57

Creating a Volume ............................................................................................................ 63

Using Your Volume ........................................................................................................... 65

Backing Up Your Volumes ................................................................................................. 71

Creating a Tape Gateway ........................................................................................................... 75

Creating a Gateway .......................................................................................................... 75

Creating Tapes ................................................................................................................. 82

Using Your Tape Gateway .................................................................................................. 83

Activating a Gateway in a Virtual Private Cloud .......................................................................... 133

Creating a Gateway Using a VPC Endpoint ......................................................................... 134

Managing Your Gateway .................................................................................................................. 144

Managing Your File Gateway .................................................................................................... 144

Adding a File Share ........................................................................................................ 144

Deleting a File Share ....................................................................................................... 146

Editing Storage Settings for Your File Share ....................................................................... 148

Editing Metadata Defaults for Your NFS File Share .............................................................. 149

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