- Creating an Amazon AWS Storage Gateway Golden Image Store
Overview
See Configuring AWS Storage Gateway for information on configuring an on-premises gateway to Amazon cloud storage.
Creating an Amazon AWS Storage Gateway Golden Image Store
To add a golden image store to SiteDeploy, select the ‘Golden Image Stores’ heading, in the ‘Deployment’ section of the Site Manager.
In ‘Golden Image Stores’ a list of the existing golden image stores will be displayed. To add a new golden image store, select ‘Add.’
Store Type
On the first page of the 'Add Store' wizard, select 'Amazon AWS Storage Gateway':
Storage Gateway
On this page enter the Access Key ID and Secret Key ID.
Once the Access Key ID and Secret Key ID of the Storage Gateway have been entered, press 'Validate' to get a list of gateway names and volumes to select.
Once the correct gateway name and volume have been selected, press 'Next' to move to the next page of the wizard.
Authentication
On this page the details for the network share on the iSCSI volume can be entered. The share entered must be mapped to the AWS Storage Gateway volume selected.
The user that is specified in the ‘Authentication’ section requires read and write access to the share that has been specified so that the golden images may be created. If the field is left blank anonymous access will be used.
To avoid problems at the client end, it is recommended that the domain part of the authentication is always filled in. If the share is on a computer that is not joined to a domain, the hostname of the computer should be used instead.
Configuration
On this page, additional options can be specified. These options are shown below:
| Option | Description |
| Automatically retry golden image store connection for user credential errors | This option will cause SiteDeploy to treat credential failures like normal network errors and retry the golden image store connection on credential failures. This can be useful as Windows can incorrectly report network issues as credential failures. By default, SiteDeploy will not retry credential failures automatically to prevent the possibility of locking accounts due to an incorrect password. |
| Allow X simultaneous deployments from this golden image store | This value sets the number of deployments that can be performed from backups in this golden image store simultaneously. The default value is 5, but it can be increased up to 60. More than 60 simultaneous deployments can take place if more than one golden image store is being used as the source for the deployment. |
| Custom name | A name that will be displayed in the SiteDeploy interface for this repository. If left blank, it will default to the network path of the repository. |
Once the golden image store configuration has been completed, select ‘Finish.’ SiteDeploy will then attempt to connect to the golden image store using the settings that you have specified. If SiteDeploy is unable to connect to the golden image store, an error will be displayed and can be corrected.
Once the golden image store has been added successfully, it will be shown in the list of existing golden image stores along with information about the golden image store.