You can use S3 bucket from a different AWS account than the AWS account where your file gateway is deployed. For example, your file gateway and file share can be in Account A and you can use S3 bucket and KMS key in AWS Account B. In this post, let’s look into the steps to …
In my other post, I discussed the differences between AWS file gateway and volume gateway. In this post, I will discuss the differences between the two gateway modes that volume gateway offers; cached and stored. Both modes provides iSCSI interface access to Amazon S3 storage using AWS Storage Gateway. However, the following are some differences …
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AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage that enables low latency access to on-premises clients and applications using industry standard storage protocols like NFS, SMB and iSCSI. AWS Storage Gateway offers three types of Gateways – File Gateway, Volume Gateway and Tape Gateway. In this post, I will provide the differences between File Gateway …
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When you are activating storage gateway, you may run into errors as such site cannot be reached and others. In this post, I will discuss the common errors and troubleshooting them. Network Issues: During the new gateway activation, one of the errors you see after providing the IP address in the activation wizard is site …
In my previous posts, I shown the process of setting up the Storage Gateway on VMware and EC2. In this walkthrough, I will show steps to deploy Storage Gateway VM on Microsoft Hyper-V. First, you would need to download the Hyper-V image from the AWS Storage Gateway management console, under Platform options as shown in …
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With security vulnerabilities like CVE-2022-26925 using NTLM would open up relay attacks on the domain controllers (DC), so it is not recommended to use NTLM authentication for Windows clients to remote network shares like File Gateway SMB shares. You can use Kerberos authentication with Active Directory to mitigate the risks with NTLM. To use Kerberos, …
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When using SMB share with Active Directory authentication on File Gateway, sometimes you may get System Error 5 – Access is Denied. There could be a few reasons why you may get this error. In this article, we will go through couple of them. One of the general reasons you get this error is mismatch …
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You can activate a AWS storage gateway to three endpoint types 1) Public 2) VPC 3) FIPS In this post, we will go through the below steps and activate to VPC endpoint using AWS CLI. Interface VPC endpoint provides PrivateLink and enables private access to Storage Gateway and S3 services. In this post, we will …
When you first create the file share, the default UID/GID for the pre-existing objects in S3 bucket would be 65534:65534 which is nfsnobody:nfsnobody. You may want to change the ownership and assign specific UID/GID for these existing files through file gateway NFS file share. When doing chown to change default UID/GID, you can get operation …