How to Add an Export for an Existing Vultr Storage Gateway

Vultr Storage Gateway (an NFS Gateway for Vultr File System) enables scalable NFS-based access to VFS volumes from Vultr Bare Metal and Cloud Compute instances. Adding an export to an existing gateway lets you

• Share a single VFS volume across multiple Bare Metal instances.
• Attach multiple VFS volumes to a single instance.
• Manage shared storage more efficiently across your infrastructure.

Follow this guide to create an export for an existing Vultr Storage Gateway using the Vultr API.

1. Send a GET request to the List Storage Gateways endpoint to retrieve the available Vultr Storage Gateways.

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   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/storage-gateways" \
       -X GET \
       -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

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2. Send a GET request to the List VFS endpoint to retrieve available Vultr File System volumes.

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   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/vfs" \
       -X GET \
       -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

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3. Send a POST request to the Add Storage Gateway Export endpoint to add a new export for an existing Storage Gateway.

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   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/storage-gateways/<storage-gateway-id>/exports" \
       -X POST \
       -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
       -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
       --data '{
           "label": "<my-export-label>",
           "pseudo_root_path": "<export-path>",
           "vfs_uuid": "<vfs-volume-id>",
           "allowed_ips": [
               "<bare-metal-ip>/32"
           ]
       }'

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4. Send a GET request to the Storage Gateway endpoint using the Storage Gateway ID to verify that the export was created.

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   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/storage-gateways/<storage-gateway-id>" \
       -X GET \
       -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

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