AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Creating a Volume
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Creating a Volume (p. 63)
Creating a Volume
Previously, you allocated local disks that you added to the VM cache storage and upload buffer. Now
you create a storage volume to which your applications read and write data. The gateway maintains
the volume's recently accessed data locally in cache storage, and asynchronously transferred data to
Amazon S3. For stored volumes, you allocated local disks that you added to the VM upload buffer and
your application's data.
Note
You can use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt data written to a cached
volume that is stored in Amazon S3. Currently, you can do this by using the AWS Storage
Gateway API Reference. For more information, see CreateCachediSCSIVolume or create-cached-
iscsi-volume.
To create a volume
1. Open the AWS Storage Gateway console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/storagegateway/home.
2. On the AWS Storage Gateway console, choose Create volume.
3. In the Create volume dialog box, choose a gateway for Gateway.
4. For the cached volumes, type the capacity in Capacity.
For stored volumes, choose a Disk ID value from the list.
5. For Volume content, your choices depend on the type of gateway you are creating the volume for.
For cached volumes, you have the following options:
• Create a new empty volume.
• Create a volume based on an Amazon EBS snapshot. If you choose this option, provide a value
for EBS snapshot ID.
• Clone from last volume recovery point. If you choose this option, choose a volume ID for Source
volume. If there are no volumes in the region, this option doesn't appear.
For stored volumes, you have the following options:
• Create a new empty volume.
• Create a volume based on a snapshot. If you choose this option, provide a value for EBS
snapshot ID.
• Preserve existing data on the disk
6. Type a name for iSCSI target name.
The target name can contain lowercase letters, numbers, periods (.), and hyphens (-). This target
name appears as the iSCSI target node name in the Targets tab of the iSCSI Microsoft initiator UI
after discovery. For example, the name target1 appears as iqn.1007-05.com.amazon:target1.
Make sure that the target name is globally unique within your storage area network (SAN).
7. Verify that the Network interface setting has IP address selected, or choose an IP address for
Network interface. For Network interface, one IP address appears for each adapter that is
configured for the gateway VM. If the gateway VM is configured for only one network adapter, no
Network interface list appears because there is only one IP address.
Your iSCSI target will be available on the network adapter you choose.
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