Storage Gateways

Question 1

What are the types of Storage Gateways?

Answer 1

File Gateways - Object Based
Volume Gateways (Store, and Cached) - Block Based
Gateway Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

Question 2

What are file gateways used for?

Answer 2

Flat-file storage AKA Object storage, stored directly on S3

Question 3

What are Volume Gateways used for?

Answer 3

Stored Volumes: Primary data stored on prem, backed up to AWS as snapshots stored on s3 async

Cached Volumes: Primary data stored on AWS s3 via snapshot, frequently accessed data stored on-prem

Question 4

What are VTI gateways used for?

Answer 4

Backing up tape archives and uses applications like Veeam and other backup solutions