- Configuring the Gateway Virtual Machine
- Creating a Gateway Continued
- Creating a Volume on the Gateway
Overview
This article contains information about configuring an AWS Storage Gateway, which can be used as a backend for a SiteBackup repository. For more information about using the AWS Storage Gateway as a repository, see this article.
Creating a Gateway
After logging on to AWS, you will need to access the AWS Storage Gateway dashboard:
Click the 'Create gateway' button to start the 'Create gateway' wizard:
In this example, we are creating a volume gateway with cached volumes:
Amazon provides a virtual machine that will host the gateway. This is downloaded and added to your VM provider. In this example, we are using Microsoft Hyper-V 2012:
Configuring the Gateway Virtual Machine
Once the virtual machine image has been downloaded, extract the contents of the zip file and use the 'Import Virtual Machine...' option in Hyper-V Manager:
During the 'Import Virtual Machine' wizard, specify the location where the zip file was extracted:
Select 'AWS-Storage-Gateway':
On the 'Choose Import Type' page of the wizard, select 'Copy the virtual machine (create a new unique ID)':
Next, specify the location where the virtual machine will be saved:
Then specify where the virtual hard disks will be stored:
Ensure that the virtual switch selected on the 'Connect Network' page of the wizard has access to the internet:
On the 'Summary' page of the wizard, select 'Finish' to create the virtual machine.
Once the virtual machine is created, two new virtual hard drives are required for the Volume Gateway. Right-click on the virtual machine and select 'Edit' to add two virtual hard disks, ensuring that the virtual hard disks use the virtual machine's SCSI controller.
Creating a Gateway Continued
Once the virtual machine has been configured, the gateway creation can be continued by providing the IP address of the virtual machine:
Next, specify the timezone for the gateway and a name that can be used to identify the gateway:
Once the gateway is activated, specify which of the VHDs created earlier will be used for the 'Upload Buffer' and which will be used as the local 'Cache':
Once the settings are saved, the gateway will be fully created:
Creating a Volume on the Gateway
Once the gateway has been created, a volume can be added by clicking the 'Create volume' button. In the window that opens, select which gateway will be used and the capacity of the volume:
The volume can optionally be authenticated using CHAP, or saved for immediate use.
Now that the volume has been created, a network share can be created on the volume on the virtual machine, and used to create an AWS Storage Gateway repository, as described here.