AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Activate Your Hardware Appliance
3. For Subnet, enter a valid subnet mask, and then press Down arrow.
4. For Gateway, enter your network gateway’s IPv4 address, and then press Down arrow.
5. For DNS1, enter the IPv4 address for your Domain Name Service (DNS) server, and then press Down
arrow.
6. (Optional) For DNS2, enter a second IPv4 address, and then press Down arrow. A second DNS server
assignment would provide additional redundancy should the first DNS server become unavailable.
7. Choose Save and then press Enter to save your static IPv4 address setting for the appliance.
To log out of the hardware console
1. Choose Back to return to the Main screen.
2. Choose Logout to return to the Login screen.
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Activate Your Hardware Appliance (p. 29)
Activate Your Hardware Appliance
After configuring your IP address, you enter this IP address in the console on the Hardware page, as
described following. The activation process validates that your hardware appliance has the appropriate
security credentials and registers the appliance to your AWS account.
AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance is only available in the US and Europe. You can choose to
activate your hardware appliance in any of the supported AWS Regions. For the supported AWS Regions,
see AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance Regions in the AWS General Reference.
To activate your appliance for the first time or in an AWS Region where you have no
gateways deployed
1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Storage Gateway console at https://
console.amazonaws.cn/storagegateway/home with the account credentials to use to activate your
hardware.
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