Network File Storage in AWS
- We use network storage to mount the data simulatanously on multiple vm’s or physical machines in the enterprise.
- How to configure the same on AWS.
- AWS has following restrictions on storage
- The storage is scoped at Availability Zone
- Multiple ec2 instances can be in different AZs
- So we need a network storage service(file share) which supports the same data in multiple AZs.
- Amazon gives network storage in two flavors
- Elastic File Systems (EFS)
- FSx
- EFS provides scalable file storage for Linux instances
- FSx provides scalable file storage for Windows instances
- While creating EFS you need to select
- the Network (VPC)
- the AZs (subnets)
- Security Groups (Firewall)
- Now create two ec2 linux instances.
- Now lets create a security group to allow all port communications with in the vpc
- Now navigate to EFS & Create a filesystem
- use the Attach button to fetch the mount commands
- For more info Refer Here
- now login into ec2 instance and create a directory called as efs
sudo yum install nfs-utils -y
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/ebs
- Copy the nfs utils command and change ebs at the last to /mnt/ebs
sudo mount -t nfs4 -o nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2,noresvport fs-32fc65e3.efs.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com:/ /mnt/ebs
- If you need to persist this mount over restarts add the below line to /etc/fstab
fs-32fc65e3.efs.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com:/ /mnt/efs nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2,noresvport 0 0
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Backups of the EFS can be created as a plan using AWS Backup
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EFS access points are application specific entry points into EFS filesystem for managing application access to shared data sets
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FSx Gives the exact options for creating an SMB File share for Windows instances.
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If you want third party storage solutions like netapp, emc can be created from AWS Market place.
Next Steps
- Scenario-1: Assume your organization is already having lot of storage in local nas/san kind of system, so how can we migrate this data to AWS cloud.
- Scenario-2: Assume your organization wants to sync the data (network file share) to AWS.
