Mount Azure Blob Storage As Network Drive

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.

Mount azure blob storage as network drive.

Blob storage stores unstructured object data. A windows server 2016 datacenter vm. Proposed as answer by adam smith azure thursday. Unlike azure blob storage azure files offers smb access to azure file shares.

Before you can work with an azure file share you have to create an azure storage account. Table storage stores structured datasets. Migration strategy for microsoft azure blob storage centrestack offers you a better cloud migration strategy from traditional file servers to azure storage. Store azure storage account credentials.

You can t map blob storage as a network drive unless you re using a third party program. A general purpose v2 storage account provides access to all of the azure storage services. Fortunately i think we can reinvent this magical piece of software albeit to a scoped degree with azure blob storage. Like azure blob storage azure files offers a rest interface and rest based client libraries.

Azure storage provides four services. An azure storage account and an azure file share. To get the mapped drive to persist we should first store the azure storage account key credentials using the cmdkey utility. Blob storage is also referred to as object storage.

A blob can be any type of text or binary data such as a document a media file or an application installer. 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. Blobs files queues and tables. 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.

It allows you to mount your blob storage container to your linux machine you can read more about it here. No you can t map a network drive to an azure blob storage. Use the storage account name prepended with azure as the username and a storage account key as the password. Table storage is a nosql key attribute data store which.

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. Create a storage account.