{"id":1313,"date":"2019-01-18T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2019-01-18T09:32:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:32:02","slug":"aws-storage-gateway-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/aws-storage-gateway-test\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Storage Gateway Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Download VMware ESXi Image.<\/li><li>With Virtualbox Import OVA AWS-Appliance-2018-12-11-1544560738.ova<\/li><li>Adjust memory 16 -> 10.  Try not to do this if possible but in my case I was short on memory on the host.<\/li><li>Change to bridged networking instead of NAT.<\/li><li>Add a SAS controller and thick provisioned a disk.  I did type VDI and 8GB for my test. <\/li><li>Use the SAS disk attached to the Virtualbox VM as cache in the AWS Storage Gateway console.<\/li><li> Share files as NFS (SMB you will need MS-AD)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some useful CLI commands<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n$ aws storagegateway list-gateways\n{\n    &quot;Gateways&quot;: &#x5B;\n        {\n            &quot;GatewayId&quot;: &quot;sgw-&lt;...&gt;&quot;,\n            &quot;GatewayARN&quot;: &quot;arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:&lt;...&gt;:gateway\/sgw-&lt;...&gt;&quot;,\n            &quot;GatewayType&quot;: &quot;FILE_S3&quot;,\n            &quot;GatewayOperationalState&quot;: &quot;ACTIVE&quot;,\n            &quot;GatewayName&quot;: &quot;iq-st01&quot;\n        }\n    ]\n}\n\n$ aws storagegateway list-file-shares\n{\n    &quot;FileShareInfoList&quot;: &#x5B;\n        {\n            &quot;FileShareType&quot;: &quot;NFS&quot;,\n            &quot;FileShareARN&quot;: &quot;arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:&lt;...&gt;:share\/share-&lt;...&gt;&quot;,\n            &quot;FileShareId&quot;: &quot;share-&lt;...&gt;&quot;,\n            &quot;FileShareStatus&quot;: &quot;AVAILABLE&quot;,\n            &quot;GatewayARN&quot;: &quot;arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:&lt;...&gt;:gateway\/sgw-&lt;...&gt;&quot;\n        }\n    ]\n}\n\n$ aws storagegateway list-local-disks --gateway-arn arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:&lt;...&gt;:gateway\/sgw-&lt;...&gt;\n{\n    &quot;GatewayARN&quot;: &quot;arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:&lt;...&gt;:gateway\/sgw-&lt;...&gt;&quot;,\n    &quot;Disks&quot;: &#x5B;\n        {\n            &quot;DiskId&quot;: &quot;pci-0000:00:16.0-sas-0x00060504030201a0-lun-0&quot;,\n            &quot;DiskPath&quot;: &quot;\/dev\/sda&quot;,\n            &quot;DiskNode&quot;: &quot;SCSI (0:0)&quot;,\n            &quot;DiskStatus&quot;: &quot;present&quot;,\n            &quot;DiskSizeInBytes&quot;: 8589934592,\n            &quot;DiskAllocationType&quot;: &quot;CACHE STORAGE&quot;\n        }\n    ]\n}\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Mount test<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n# mount -t nfs -o nolock,hard 192.168.1.25:\/st01.iqonda.com  \/mnt\/st01\n# nfsstat -m\n\/mnt\/st01 from 192.168.1.25:\/st01.iqonda.com\n Flags:\trw,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\n<\/pre><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wanted to take a quick look at the File Gateway. 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