Storage Gateway Flashcards
What is Storage Gateway?
An on-prem software appliance which connects your datacenter to AWS via a seamless and secure integration.
What virtualization platforms does Storage Gateway support?
VMWare or Hyper-V
What is the intention of Storage Gateway?
full integration with AWS that makes it appear as though AWS storage volumes are on-prem.
What three storage gateway services are provided?
File Gateway
Volume Gateway
Tape Gateway (or VTL)
What are the two variants of Volume Gateway?
Stored Volumes
Cached Volumes
What does VTL stand for?
Virtual tape library
What is File Gateway?
An object storage solution that stores your files in S3
How are File Gateway volumes utilized?
As NFS or SMB mount points.
True or False: File Gateway uses the same benefits as S3 included bucket policies, versioning, lifecycle management, replication, etc?
True
Which protocol are volume backed gateways backed by?
The iSCSI protocol
What is Gateway - Stored Volumes?
All of your data is stored locally and backed up to AWS.
What is Gateway - Cached Volumes?
All data is stored at AWS, while copies of frequently accessed data are stored locally.
True or False: With Volume Gateway - Stored Volumes, you require a local storage infrastructure as all data is stored locally.
True. All data is stored locally, and backed up to AWS.
True or False: The benefit of keeping files stored locally, whether cached, or stored volumes, is low latency?
True. If files were not cached locally, users would have a much higher latency for file access.
True or False: Volume Gateway - Cached Volumes require much less on prem storage infrastructure?
True. Since only frequently accessed files are stored on prem,
