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.
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Configure Azure Storage and File Share
- Create an Azure Storage account
- Create an Azure file share
- Mount the File Share
- Mount the file share to the virtual machine
- 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:Userscloud_userDocumentsawesomefolder Z:
- Example:
- Confirm the file has been migrated
- Note: You may notice a
desktop.inifile 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
