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Gateway-cached Volumes

 
Gateway-cached volumes let you use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as your primary data storage while retaining frequently accessed data locally in your storage gateway. Gateway-cached volumes minimize the need to scale your on-premises storage infrastructure, while still providing your applications with low-latency access to their frequently accessed data. You can create storage volumes up to 32 TiB in size and attach to them as iSCSI devices from your on-premises application servers. Your gateway stores data that you write to these volumes in Amazon S3 and retains recently read data in your on-premises storage gateway's cache and upload buffer storage.
 

Creating the Gateway Cache

 
In order to create gateway cached architecture quickly and easily in SoftNAS Storagecenter, perform the following tasks:
 
  • Attach a volume, using the AWS console.
  • Navigate to the SoftNAS Storage Center URL of your instance via your browser and provide your credentials.
  • In the left panel (Storage Administration), under Storage, navigate to Disk Devices.
     
     
  • Select the volume you wish to make the Gateway cache.
     
     
  • Click Add Device.
     
     
  • If in the Add Disk Device wizard you are asked what type of device , select Amazon S3 Cloud Disk Extender.
     
     
  • The Disk Extender applet will open. In this part of the wizard you will:
     
  • Enter AWS credentials.
  • Select Region, and name the S3 bucket (the latter is optional).
  • Select the disk size.
  • Check the box for Block Cache File, then select the appropriate Cache File Path via the dropdown.
  • Click Create.
     
 
 
8. The disk will appear in the available list.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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