Activating your AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance

To activate your AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance

1. Open the AWS Storage Gateway Management Console and sign in with the account credentials you want to use to activate your hardware.

   Note

   For activation only, the following must be true:

   • Your browser must be on the same network as your hardware appliance.

   • Your firewall must allow HTTP access on port 8080 to the appliance for inbound traffic.

2. Choose Hardware from the navigation menu on the left side of the page.

3. Choose Activate appliance.

4. For IP Address, enter the IP address that you configured for your hardware appliance, then choose Connect.

   For more information about configuring the IP address, see Configuring network parameters.

5. For Name, enter a name for your hardware appliance. Names can be up to 255 characters long and can't include a slash character.

6. For Hardware appliance time zone, enter the local time zone from which most of the workload for the gateway will be generated., then choose Next.

   The time zone controls when hardware updates take place, with 2 a.m. used as the default scheduled time to perform updates. Ideally, if the time zone is set properly, updates will take place outside of the local working day window by default.

7. Review the activation parameters in the Hardware appliance detail section. You can choose Previous to go back and make changes if necessary. Otherwise, choose Activate to finish the activation.