New-VBRAmazonEC2DiskConfiguration

Short Description

Creates storage volume settings for Amazon EC2 instances.

Applies to

Platform: VMware, Hyper-V

Product Edition: Community, Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus, Veeam Universal License

Syntax

New-VBRAmazonEC2DiskConfiguration -DiskName <string> [-Include] [-DiskType <VBRAmazonEC2DiskType>{GeneralPurposeSSD | ProvisionedIOPSSSD | ColdHDD | ThroughtputOptimizedHDD | Magnetic}] [-ProvisionedIOPSNumber <int>]  [<CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

This cmdlet creates the VBRAmazonEC2DiskConfiguration object. This object contains storage volume settings for Amazon EC2 instances.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

Type

Required

Position

Accept
Pipeline
Input

DiskName

Specifies the disk of the source machine. Veeam Backup & Replication will restore this disk to Amazon EC2.

Note: You must specify the disk name in the "VMNAME.vhdx" format.

String

True

Named

False

Include

Defines that Veeam Backup & Replication will restore selected disks to Amazon EC2.

Default: True

SwitchParameter

False

Named

False

DiskType

Specifies the storage volume type. Veeam Backup & Replication will saves disks of the restored machine as Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. You can select the following types of EBS volumes:

  • GeneralPurposeSSD - use this option to create General Purpose SSD volumes.
  • ProvisionedIOPSSSD - use this option to create Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes.
  • ColdHDD - use this option to create Cold HDD volumes.
  • ThroughtputOptimizedHDD - use this option to create Throughput Optimized HDD volumes.
  • Magnetic - use this option to create Magnetic volumes.

VBRAmazonEC2DiskType

False

Named

False

ProvisionedIOPSNumber

For the ProvisionedIOPSSSD option.

Specifies the number of input/output operations per second for the volume.

Int

False

Named

False

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information on common parameters, see Microsoft Docs.

Output Object

None.

Examples

Defining Cold HDD Storage Volume Settings for Amazon EC2 Instances

This command defines settings for Cold HDD storage volume of Amazon EC2 instances. Save the result to the variable to be used with the other cmdlets.

$volumesettings = New-VBRAmazonEC2DiskConfiguration -DiskName "srv20.vhdx" -Include -DiskType ColdHDD