Physically installing your hardware appliance - AWS Storage Gateway

Amazon FSx File Gateway is no longer available to new customers. Existing customers of FSx File Gateway can continue to use the service normally. For capabilities similar to FSx File Gateway, visit this blog post.

Physically installing your hardware appliance

Your appliance has a 1U form factor and fits in a standard International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) compliant 19-inch rack.

Prerequisites

To install your hardware appliance, you need the following components:

  • Power cables: one required, two recommended.

  • Supported network cabling (depending on which Network Interface Card (NIC) is included in the hardware appliance).

  • Keyboard and monitor, or a keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) switch solution.

Note

Before you perform the following procedure, make sure that you meet all of the requirements for the Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance as described in Networking and firewall requirements for the Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance.

To physically install your hardware appliance

  1. Unbox your hardware appliance and follow the instructions contained in the box to rack-mount the server.

    The following images show the back of the hardware appliance with ports for connecting power, ethernet, monitor, USB keyboard, and iDRAC. Please refer to the appropriate image based on the appliance model you have.

    hardware appliance one rear with network and power connector labels.
    hardware appliance two rear with network and power connector labels.

  2. Plug in a power connection to each of the two power supplies. It's possible to plug in to only one power connection, but we recommend power connections to both power supplies for redundancy.

  3. Plug an Ethernet cable into the em1 port to provide an always-on internet connection. The em1 port is the first of the four physical network ports on the rear, from left to right.

    Note

    The hardware appliance doesn't support VLAN trunking. Set up the switch port to which you are connecting the hardware appliance as a non-trunked VLAN port.

  4. Plug in the keyboard and monitor.

  5. Power on the server by pressing the Power button on the front panel, as shown in the following image.

    hardware appliance front with power button label.

Next step

Accessing the hardware appliance console