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Creates a volume on a specified gateway. This operation is only supported in the stored volume gateway type.

The size of the volume to create is inferred from the disk size. You can choose to preserve existing data on the disk, create volume from an existing snapshot, or create an empty volume. If you choose to create an empty gateway volume, then any existing data on the disk is erased.

In the request, you must specify the gateway and the disk information on which you are creating the volume. In response, the gateway creates the volume and returns volume information such as the volume Amazon Resource Name (ARN), its size, and the iSCSI target ARN that initiators can use to connect to the volume target.

post/#X-Amz-Target=StorageGateway_20130630.CreateStorediSCSIVolume

Headers

X-Amz-Target'StorageGateway_20130630.CreateStorediSCSIVolume' required

Request body

GatewayARNstring required

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the gateway. Use the <a>ListGateways</a> operation to return a list of gateways for your account and Amazon Web Services Region.

DiskIdstring required

The unique identifier for the gateway local disk that is configured as a stored volume. Use <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/API_ListLocalDisks.html">ListLocalDisks</a> to list disk IDs for a gateway.

SnapshotIdstring

The snapshot ID (e.g., "snap-1122aabb") of the snapshot to restore as the new stored volume. Specify this field if you want to create the iSCSI storage volume from a snapshot; otherwise, do not include this field. To list snapshots for your account use <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/ApiReference-query-DescribeSnapshots.html">DescribeSnapshots</a> in the <i>Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API Reference</i>.

PreserveExistingDataboolean required
<p>Set to <code>true</code> if you want to preserve the data on the local disk. Otherwise, set to <code>false</code> to create an empty volume.</p> <p>Valid Values: <code>true</code> | <code>false</code> </p>
TargetNamestring required
<p>The name of the iSCSI target used by an initiator to connect to a volume and used as a suffix for the target ARN. For example, specifying <code>TargetName</code> as <i>myvolume</i> results in the target ARN of <code>arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-2:111122223333:gateway/sgw-12A3456B/target/iqn.1997-05.com.amazon:myvolume</code>. The target name must be unique across all volumes on a gateway.</p> <p>If you don't specify a value, Storage Gateway uses the value that was previously used for this volume as the new target name.</p>
NetworkInterfaceIdstring required
<p>The network interface of the gateway on which to expose the iSCSI target. Only IPv4 addresses are accepted. Use <a>DescribeGatewayInformation</a> to get a list of the network interfaces available on a gateway.</p> <p>Valid Values: A valid IP address.</p>
KMSEncryptedboolean
<p>Set to <code>true</code> to use Amazon S3 server-side encryption with your own KMS key, or <code>false</code> to use a key managed by Amazon S3. Optional.</p> <p>Valid Values: <code>true</code> | <code>false</code> </p>
KMSKeystring

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a symmetric customer master key (CMK) used for Amazon S3 server-side encryption. Storage Gateway does not support asymmetric CMKs. This value can only be set when <code>KMSEncrypted</code> is <code>true</code>. Optional.

Response

Success

VolumeARNstring

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the configured volume.

VolumeSizeInBytesinteger

The size of the volume in bytes.

TargetARNstring

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the volume target, which includes the iSCSI name that initiators can use to connect to the target.

Example response

{
  "TargetARN": "arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:111122223333:gateway/sgw-12A3456B/target/iqn.1997-05.com.amazon:myvolume",
  "VolumeARN": "arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:111122223333:gateway/sgw-12A3456B/volume/vol-1122AABB",
  "VolumeSizeInBytes": 1099511627776
}