AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Rack-Mount and Plug In Your Hardware Appliance
To install your hardware appliance, you need the following components:
• Power cables: one required, two recommended.
• Category 6 (Cat6) Ethernet cable. A Category 5 (Cat5) Ethernet cable limits your throughput.
• Keyboard and monitor, or a keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) switch solution.
To connect the hardware appliance to power
Note
Before you perform the following procedure, make sure that you meet all of the requirements
for the AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance as described in
Requirements for the AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance (p. 17)
.
1. Plug in a power connection to each of the two power supplies. It's possible to plug in to only one
power connection, but we recommend power connections to both power supplies.
In the following image, you can see the hardware appliance with the different connections.
2. Plug an Ethernet cable into the
em1
port to provide an always-on internet connection. The
em1
port
is the first of the four physical network ports on the rear, from left to right.
Note
The hardware appliance doesn't support VLAN trunking. Set up the switch port to which
you are connecting the hardware appliance as a non-trunked VLAN port.
3. Plug in the keyboard and monitor.
4. Power on the server by pressing the
Power
button on the front panel, as shown in the following
image.
After the server boots up, the hardware console appears on the monitor. The hardware console presents
a user interface specific to AWS that you can use to configure initial network parameters. You configure
these parameters to connect the appliance to AWS and open up a support channel for troubleshooting
by AWS Support.
To work with the hardware console, enter text from the keyboard and use the
Up
,
Down
,
Right
, and
Left Arrow
keys to move about the screen in the indicated direction. Use the
Tab
key to move
sequentially forward through items on-screen. On some setups, you can use the
Shift+Tab
keystroke to
move sequentially backward. Use the
Enter
key to save selections, or to choose a button on the screen.
To set a password for the first time
1. For
Set Password
, enter a password, and then press
Down arrow
.
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