EFS Configuration with EC2 Mounting It

Introduction

Steps to create EFS from console and mount EFS in EC2, main focus will be on EFS

Create security group for EFS

• EFS is using NFS version 4.0 and 4.1, so we must create a security group to allow tcp 2049 port accessible to EFS

• When creating security group for EFS, we can select the source allow to access EFS which the security group for EC2 will be selected
  

• Finished SG view of EFS
  

Create EFS

• Make sure the correct VPC, subnet and SG is selected
  

• Remove the default SG and select the EFS SG
  

• Rest of steps to complete EFS, configure accordingly
  
  

• Finshed view of EFS configuring
  

• EFS creating and finished
  
  

Steps to mount EFS to EC2

• Follow the provided instructions

• Install necessary package
  

• Follow the instruction to mount the EFS mounting target
  

Login to EC2 and mount EFS mounting target

• Install necessary package
  

• Mount EFS mounting target
  

Mount EFS mounting target automatically after reboot

• Modify /etc/fstab as bellow, reboot to confirm

  1 2	sudo sh -c "cat >> /etc/fstab" your_EFS_file_system_id mount_point efs defaults,_netdev 0 0

  

• EFS auto mounted after reboot
  

Checking EFS statistics with CloudWatch

• test and monitor EFS with command bloew, replace the mounting point

  1	sudo fio --name=fio-efs --filesize=10G --filename=/`ur_mount_point`/fio-efs-test.img --bs=1M --nrfiles=1 --direct=1 --sync=0 --rw=write --iodepth=200 --ioengine=libaio

  

• Enter CloudWatch console
  

• Select metrics to be monitor
  

• Set configuration according to needs and check the result graphp above
  

Finished view of testing command