Mount Azure Blob Storage As Network Drive

Proposed as answer by adam smith azure thursday.

Mount azure blob storage as network drive.

No you can t map a network drive to an azure blob storage. Like azure blob storage azure files offers a rest interface and rest based client libraries. Table storage is a nosql key attribute data store which. It allows you to mount your blob storage container to your linux machine you can read more about it here.

In this guide i will show you how to mount a drive and persist an azure file share connection with windows so even if you reboot your computer the connection is persisted. By using smb you can mount an azure file share directly on windows linux or macos either on premises or in cloud vms without writing any code or attaching any special. Unlike azure blob storage azure files offers smb access to azure file shares. Blob storage is also referred to as object storage.

Use azure file share as desired. With it you can synchronize network file shares to azure cloud storage and then mount azure blob storage as a local drive to provide mapped drives for simplified remote access. Fortunately i think we can reinvent this magical piece of software albeit to a scoped degree with azure blob storage. Mount microsoft azure blob storage as a network drive to your windows workstation or windows server download free trial the software comes with 15 day trial buy for 49 99 119 99 the license is per computer one time fee the price doesn t include vat 49 99 for windows desktop 119 99 for windows server.

You can t map blob storage as a network drive unless you re using a third party program. When you are ready to dismount the azure file share you can do so by right clicking on the entry for the share under the network locations in file explorer and selecting disconnect. To get the mapped drive to persist we should first store the azure storage account key credentials using the cmdkey utility. Table storage stores structured datasets.

In the past network drives did the trick but azure storage offers users automatic backups better flexibility and global availability all at a very low cost or no cost if you are using free azure credits. A blob can be any type of text or binary data such as a document a media file or an application installer. Use the storage account name prepended with azure as the username and a storage account key as the password. A windows server 2016 datacenter vm.

Blobs files queues and tables. Migration strategy for microsoft azure blob storage centrestack offers you a better cloud migration strategy from traditional file servers to azure storage. An azure storage account and an azure file share. Store azure storage account credentials.

Before you can work with an azure file share you have to create an azure storage account. Create a storage account.