AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Activate Your Hardware Appliance
4. For IP Address, enter the IPv4 address of your appliance, and then choose Connect to Hardware to
go to the Activate Hardware screen shown following.
5. For Hardware name, enter a name for your appliance. Names can be up to 255 characters long and
can't include a slash character.
6. (Optional) For Hardware time zone, enter your local settings.
The time zone controls when hardware updates take place, with 2 a.m. local time used as the time
for updates.
Note
We recommend setting the time zone for your appliance as this determines a standard
update time that is out of the usual working day window.
7. (Optional) Keep the RAID Volume Manager set to ZFS.
ZFS RAID is a software-based, open-source file system and logical volume manager. We recommend
using ZFS for most hardware appliance use cases because it offers superior performance and
integration compared with MD RAID. The hardware appliance is specifically tuned for ZFS RAID. For
more information on ZFS RAID, see the ZFS Wikipedia page.
If you don't want to accept CDDL license terms, as documented in CDDL 1.0 on the Opensource.org
site, we also offer MD RAID. For more information on MD RAID, see the mdadm Wikipedia page.
To change the volume manager on your hardware appliance, contact AWS Support. AWS Support
can provide an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard image, instructions
on performing a factory reset of a hardware appliance, and instructions on installing the new ISO
image.
8. Choose Next to finish activation.
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