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Migrating to Azure File Shares from Windows Server
You are in the process of migrating your company's workloads to Azure. As it stands now, your company wants to maintain a hybrid environment, so you are working on migrating your local file shares to Azure. To do this, in this hands-on lab, you will be creating an Azure file share, mounting the share to a Windows Server, and migrating data to the file share.
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Table of Contents
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Challenge
Configure Azure Storage and File Share
- Create an Azure Storage account
- Create an Azure file share
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Challenge
Mount the File Share
- Mount the file share to the virtual machine
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Challenge
Migrate Files
- Create a new folder
- Add a file to the folder
- Migrate the contents of the folder to the file share using the
robocopy <SourcePath> <Dest Path>
command- Example:
robocopy C:\Users\cloud_user\Documents\awesomefolder Z:\
- Example:
- Confirm the file has been migrated
- Note: You may notice a
desktop.ini
file in the folder once the files have been migrated. This is a hidden Windows OS file that is used to store configuration settings for the folder.
- Note: You may notice a
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