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AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Configuring VMware for Storage Gateway
Note
You must complete this step to avoid issues in identifying these disks when you configure them
in the gateway console.
To configure your VM to use paravirtualized controllers
1. In the VMware vSphere client, open the context (right-click) menu for your gateway VM, and then
choose Edit Settings.
2. In the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box, choose the Hardware tab, select the SCSI controller
0, and then choose Change Type.
3. In the Change SCSI Controller Type dialog box, select the VMware Paravirtual SCSI controller type,
and then choose OK.
Using AWS Storage Gateway with VMware High Availability
VMware High Availability (HA) is a component of vSphere that can provide protection from failures in the
infrastructure layer supporting a gateway VM. VMware HA does this by using multiple hosts configured
as a cluster so that if a host running a gateway VM fails, the gateway VM can berestarted automatically
on another host within the cluster. For more information about VMware HA, see VMware HA: Concepts
and Best Practices on the VMware website.
To use AWS Storage Gateway with VMware HA, we recommend doing the following things:
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