AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Activate Your Hardware Appliance
4. For
IP Address
, enter the IPv4 address of your appliance, and then choose
Connect to Hardware
to
go to the Activate Hardware screen shown following.
5. For
Hardware name
, enter a name for your appliance. Names can be up to 255 characters long and
can't include a slash character.
6. (Optional) For
Hardware time zone
, enter your local settings.
The time zone controls when hardware updates take place, with 2 a.m. local time used as the time
for updates.
Note
We recommend setting the time zone for your appliance as this determines a standard
update time that is out of the usual working day window.
7. (Optional) Keep the
RAID Volume Manager
set to
ZFS
.
ZFS RAID is a software-based, open-source file system and logical volume manager. We recommend
using ZFS for most hardware appliance use cases because it offers superior performance and
integration compared with MD RAID. The hardware appliance is specifically tuned for ZFS RAID. For
more information on ZFS RAID, see the
Wikipedia page.
If you don't want to accept CDDL license terms, as documented in
on the Opensource.org
site, we also offer MD RAID. For more information on MD RAID, see the
To change the volume manager on your hardware appliance, contact
. AWS Support
can provide an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard image, instructions
on performing a factory reset of a hardware appliance, and instructions on installing the new ISO
image.
8. Choose
Next
to finish activation.
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