Amazon Storage Gateway

The book I read to research this post was Amazon Storage Gateway User Guide which is an excellent book which I downloaded for free from kindle. Storage Gateway has 2 main uses, one is if your server is down you can use it as a virtual server and run your applications from it, the other is as an archive for putting your business data on. It works in conjunction with Simple Storage Service S3 & Elastic Compute Cloud EC2. You need either Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 or Red Hat Linux 5 on your network computers. In addition you need VMware ESXi Hypervisor on your server and vSphere client on each workstation. You need a fast online connection & normally your servers will need iSCSI storage. A lot of companies use storage to tape like travan cartridge in addition to storage on the cloud. Normally you will use one of the software development kit in a language like java to make Storage Gateway do what you want. This book has loads of explanations of things like the error messages you may encounter. Far too many to write about here. If you have a 100GB of data but only 10GB changes that is all that is uploaded which makes things quite efficient. I have done posts on Amazon Simple Storage Service & Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud at http://scratbag.me