Virtual Instance to replicate to

Supports VMWare ESXi / Microsoft Hyper-V

Types

File gateway (NFS)

• files are stored as objects (in S3)

Volumes gateway

• basically a virtual hdd
• presents applications with disk volumes using iSCSI block protocol
• stored in the cloud as Amazon EBS snapshots (in S3)
• snapshots are incremental

Stored volumes

• mount storage volumes as iSCI devices
• data is asynchronously backed up to S3 as EBS (Elastic Block Storage)
• 1GB - 16TB in size
• [!] entire data is stored on-site

Cached volumes

• [!] S3 as primary storage
• frequently accessed data locally in the storage gateway
• entire data is stored on S3
• 1GB - 32TB for cached volumes

Tape gateway (VTL)

• let’s you leverage existing tape-based to virtual tap on storage GW