AWS Storage Gateway Test

January 18, 2019 admin

I recently wanted to take a quick look at the File Gateway. It is described as "Store files as objects in Amazon S3, with a local cache for low-latency access to your most recently used data." I tried it on Virtualbox using the Vmware ESXi Image they offer.

Steps:

Download VMware ESXi Image.
With Virtualbox Import OVA AWS-Appliance-2018-12-11-1544560738.ova
Adjust memory 16 -> 10. Try not to do this if possible but in my case I was short on memory on the host.
Change to bridged networking instead of NAT.
Add a SAS controller and thick provisioned a disk. I did type VDI and 8GB for my test.
Use the SAS disk attached to the Virtualbox VM as cache in the AWS Storage Gateway console.
Share files as NFS (SMB you will need MS-AD)

Some useful CLI commands

$ aws storagegateway list-gateways
{
    "Gateways": [
        {
            "GatewayId": "sgw-<...>",
            "GatewayARN": "arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:<...>:gateway/sgw-<...>",
            "GatewayType": "FILE_S3",
            "GatewayOperationalState": "ACTIVE",
            "GatewayName": "iq-st01"
        }
    ]
}

$ aws storagegateway list-file-shares
{
    "FileShareInfoList": [
        {
            "FileShareType": "NFS",
            "FileShareARN": "arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:<...>:share/share-<...>",
            "FileShareId": "share-<...>",
            "FileShareStatus": "AVAILABLE",
            "GatewayARN": "arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:<...>:gateway/sgw-<...>"
        }
    ]
}

$ aws storagegateway list-local-disks --gateway-arn arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:<...>:gateway/sgw-<...>
{
    "GatewayARN": "arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:<...>:gateway/sgw-<...>",
    "Disks": [
        {
            "DiskId": "pci-0000:00:16.0-sas-0x00060504030201a0-lun-0",
            "DiskPath": "/dev/sda",
            "DiskNode": "SCSI (0:0)",
            "DiskStatus": "present",
            "DiskSizeInBytes": 8589934592,
            "DiskAllocationType": "CACHE STORAGE"
        }
    ]
}

Mount test

# mount -t nfs -o nolock,hard 192.168.1.25:/st01.iqonda.com  /mnt/st01
# nfsstat -m
/mnt/st01 from 192.168.1.25:/st01.iqonda.com
 Flags:	rw,relatime,vers=4.2,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=10.0.2.15,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.1.25