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