Storage
Gateway
· Storage Gateway virtual appliance is
stored in your data-centre
· Supports VMWare
esxi or MS hyper-V
· On premise systems seamlessly integrate
with AWS storage e.g. S3
· File
Gateway
o
NFS
or SMB
o
Flat
files stored directly on S3 and has the benefits of S3 - versioning, lifecycle,
replication, bucket policies
o
to
your on-premise systems appears like a FS mount backed by S3
o
low
cost alternative to on premise storage (san or nas)
· Volume Gateway
o
The Volume interface presents your applications with virtual disk volumes
using the iscsi Block protocol
o
Data
written to these volumes can be backed up asynchronously with point in
time snapshots - and stored in the cloud
as EBS Snapshots
o
Stored
§ Entire dataset is stored on site and
asynchronously backed up to S3;
o
Cached
§ Entire dataset is stored on S3 and
most frequently accessed data is cached on site in the GW upload Buffer / Cache
§ from 1 to 32 TB in size; Most
frequently utilized files;
§ attached as iscsi
devices to on premise application servers (low latency)
· Gateway virtual Tape Library
o
virtual
tape backed by S3 glacier
o
integrates
with existing backup infrastructure, Netbackup, Veeam, Backup exe which connect to the VTL using iSCSI
