Working with Tape Gateway storage resources - Amazon Storage Gateway
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Working with Tape Gateway storage resources

The topics in this section describe how to manage the storage resources associated with your Tape Gateway, such as the physical disks attached to a gateway's virtual host platform, the Amazon EBS volumes attached to a gateway's Amazon EC2 instance, your virtual tape library devices such as medium changers, and the tapes in your virtual tape libraries.

Topics

  • Removing Disks from Your Gateway - Learn about what to do if you need to remove a disk from the virtual host platform for your gateway, for example if you have a failed disk.

  • Managing Amazon EBS volumes on Amazon EC2 gateways - Learn about how you can increase or reduce the quanity of Amazon EBS volumes that are allocated for use as upload buffer or cache storage for a gateway that is hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance.

  • Working with VTL Devices - Learn about how to manage your virtual tape library devices, including how to select a medium changer for a Tape Gateway, how to update the device driver for a medium changer, and how to display barcodes for tapes in Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager.

  • Managing tapes in your virtual tape library - Learn about how to manage the tapes and virtual tape libraries associated with your Tape Gateway, including how to manually archive tapes and cancel tape archival that is in progress.