AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Using Your Tape Gateway
• Using Your Backup Software to Test Your Gateway Setup (p. 86)
• Where Do I Go from Here? (p. 133)
Connecting Your VTL Devices
Following, you can find instructions about how to connect your virtual tape library (VTL) devices to your
Microsoft Windows or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) client.
Topics
• Connecting to a Microsoft Windows Client (p. 84)
• Connecting to a Linux Client (p. 85)
Connecting to a Microsoft Windows Client
The following procedure shows a summary of the steps that you follow to connect to a Windows client.
To connect your VTL devices to a Windows client
1. Start iscsicpl.exe.
Note
You must have administrator rights on the client computer to run the iSCSI initiator.
2. Start the Microsoft iSCSI initiator service.
3. In the iSCSI Initiator Properties dialog box, choose the Discovery tab, and then choose the Discover
Portal button.
4. Provide the IP address of your tape gateway for IP address or DNS name.
5. Choose the Targets tab, and then choose Refresh. All 10 tape drives and the medium changer
appear in the Discovered targets box. The status for the targets is Inactive.
6. Choose the first device and connect it. You connect the devices one at a time.
7. Connect all of the targets.
On a Windows client, the driver provider for the tape drive must be Microsoft. Use the following
procedure to verify the driver provider, and update the driver and provider if necessary:
To verify and update the driver and provider
1. On your Windows client, start Device Manager.
2. Expand Tape drives, open the context (right-click) menu for a tape drive, and choose Properties.
3. In the Driver tab of the Device Properties dialog box, verify Driver Provider is Microsoft.
4. If Driver Provider is not Microsoft, set the value as follows:
a. Choose Update Driver.
b. In the Update Driver Software dialog box, choose Browse my computer for driver software.
c. In the Update Driver Software dialog box, choose Let me pick from a list of device drivers on
my computer.
d. Choose LTO Tape drive and choose Next.
5. Choose Close to close the Update Driver Software window, and verify that the Driver Provider
value is now set to Microsoft.
6. Repeat the steps to update driver and provider for all the tape drives.
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