Drobo iSCSI SAN Bedienungsanleitung
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The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Storage Gateway uses an on-premises virtual appliance to replicate
a portion of your local Drobo iSCSI SAN (Drobo B1200i, left below, and Drobo B800i, right below) to cloud-
based storage. This solution provides an option for redundant backup and disaster recovery in the cloud for
critical data, particularly for users that may not have a secondary site with IT equipment.
The AWS Storage Gateway is installed on a VMware host that is linked to an AWS account—providing an
on-ramp to cloud storage. Volumes of up to 1TB in size (12 volumes per gateway maximum) are created and
mounted by on-premises servers as iSCSI devices. Based on functionality available in the Beta version of
AWS Storage Gateway, data written to your gateway-stored volumes is recorded on Drobo storage and
asynchronously stored in Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) in the form of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block
Store) snapshots.
This guide provides the tested steps to sync data on Drobo iSCSI storage to the cloud for offsite backup
using gateway-stored volumes. The information in this guide can be the foundation for leveraging other
Amazon Web Services (AWS) for recovery in the cloud. For example, Amazon Route 53 service enables DNS
updating so that users are pointed to the instance running in the cloud. It is also possible to create an
Amazon EBS instance from an S3 backup, mount it with an Amazon EC2 instance, and restart the
application completely from the cloud.
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Topics
Deploying the AMS Storage Gateway appliance
Configuring the AMS Storage Gateway appliance
Activating the AWS Storage Gateway appliance
Creating AWS storage volumes
Mounting Storage Gateway volumes
Restoring storage volume snapshots
What You Will Need
•Drobo iSCSI SAN B800i or B1200i
•Drobo Dashboard management software (latest version)
•Amazon Web Services account: sign up @ http://aws.amazon.com
•AWS Storage Gateway virtual machine (VM) image, available from the AWS Management Console
•Sufficient Internet connectivity to support file synchronization to the cloud
•VMware ESXi Hypervisor v4.1 or above (can work with the free vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi))
•Gateway appliance resources: at least 7.5GB of RAM, 4 virtual processors, and 75GB of disk space
oDisk space for OVA appliance and system data can be stored on a Drobo iSCSI volume
Prerequisites
This document assumes that the Drobo iSCSI storage has been deployed and that a datastore has been
configured in your VMware virtualization infrastructure. If not, to do so, read How To Deploy VMware and
Drobo as a Complete and Cost-Effective Virtualization Solution @ www.drobo.com/downloads/how-to/HT-
0045-00_vmware_drobo_virt_solution.pdf].
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Deploying the AWS Storage Gateway Appliance
STEP 1
Log in to the AWS
Management console:
http://aws.amazon.com
Navigate to the
Storage Gateway
tab from the AWS
Management console.
STEP 2
To begin the Storage
Gateway activation
wizard, click Set up
and Activate a New
Gateway at the
bottom of the screen.
STEP 3
Click Download to
save the Storage
Gateway OVA
Package.
NOTE: The OVA
appliance package is
over 500MB and may
take some time to
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download.
STEP 4
Load the vSphere
client and log into the
ESXi host or vCenter
server that will be
used to deploy the
appliance.
Once authenticated,
select File > Deploy
OVF Template.
STEP 5
Provide the path to the AWS
Storage Gateway OVA package
and click Next.
On the next screen the details of
the appliance are shown. Click
Next to continue.
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STEP 6
Enter a name for the VM that
will be displayed within the
vSphere client and click Next.
The name provided will only be
used in the VM inventory list
within VMware.
STEP 7
Enter a name for the VM that
will be displayed within the
vSphere client and click
Next.
The name provided will only
be used in the VM inventory
list within VMware.
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STEP 8
Select the datastore on the
Drobo that will be used to
store the appliance VM.
Typically this store will also
be used to store all disk
images associated with the
appliance.
STEP 9
Select Thick Provision
Lazy Zeroed to allocate the
disk storage immediately
and click Next.
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STEP 10
If multiple networks are
configured on the ESXi
server, select the
appropriate network and
click Next.
STEP 11
Click Finish to complete the
wizard and deploy the VM to
the host server.
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Configuring the AWS Storage Gateway Appliance
STEP 1
Once the appliance has been
deployed, select it from the
inventory list.
On the summary pane for the
gateway virtual machine select
Edit Settings to modify the
properties of the VM.
STEP 2
In the Options tab, select
VMware Tools on the left,
check the box Synchronize
guest time with host in the
Advanced section at the right
bottom, and select the
Hardware tab.
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STEP 3
A minimum of two disks must be created for use by the gateway appliance. The first disk will store
application data and the second will be used as buffer space for data waiting to be synchronized to AWS.
In the hardware tab, click
Add to create the disk that
will be used by the gateway
for data storage.
STEP 4
Select Hard Disk and click
Next.
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STEP 5
Select Create a new virtual
disk and click Next.
STEP 6
The size of the data disk to be replicated to the AWS should be sufficient to store all data but without being
so large there will be a very large amount of unused space. AWS storage is billed per gigabyte and is not
thinly provisioned like a Drobo. Data is billed on the size provisioned.
Enter the size for the data
disk to be replicated to AWS.
Storage volumes can be any
size between 1 and 1000GB.
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