I've created two virtual machines on Window Azure Portal.
Is that possible to access azure blob storage through network shared files (UNC path) between these virtual machines?
Thanks
This new feature may be of some interest.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2014/05/12/introducing-microsoft-azure-file-service.aspx
Looks like you can create a new share that's backed by azure blob and then mount it on give vm's.
Have a look at http://azuredrive.codeplex.com/
It allows you to mount Blob Storage Accounts as Mapped Drives.
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Is there a way to mount an Azure blob account as a drive in a linux machine, and have the files show up as file blobs in the Azure portal? I know I can mount an Azure blob as a disk, but when I'm done, I just have a disk. I'm looking to backup a few critical files from an Azure VM, and don't really want to rig up SDK calls. I'd rather a cron rsync a directory -- added benefit: it prunes. I'm familiar with rclone and AzCopy, but both require I bake azure secrets into the command line. Is there a blob mount way to do it instead of a separate install?
You can use blobfuse to mount a Blob storage container on Linux and access data. Blobfuse is a virtual file system driver for Azure Blob Storage, which allows you to access your existing block blob data in your Storage account through the Linux file system. Azure Blob Storage is an object storage service and therefore does not have a hierarchical namespace. Blobfuse provides this namespace using the virtual directory scheme with the use of forward-slash '/' as a delimiter.
there is Mount for Files
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-ca/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction
Do not try Mount with Windows SMB DISASTER!!!
Mount Azure File storage on Linux VMs using SMB
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/mount-azure-file-storage-on-linux-using-smb
ONE MORE TIME SMB= DISASTER!!!!
there are 3rd party tools like for BLOBs
https://www.cloudberrylab.com/
https://www.cloudberrylab.com/backup/linux.aspx
personally I look to develop by myself app and backup on demand not as permanent disk attached Hard to secure...
READ HERE
https://www.google.ca/search?q=hack+smb+share
goofys added support for azure blob: https://github.com/kahing/goofys/blob/master/README-azure.md#azure-blob-storage
Hello i am actually working on Azure services and i want to know if it's possible to work with a azure blob storage as a virtual machine hard drive? If possible can we by the inclusion of the virtual machine include the blob storage in a VNet?
you cannot add storage as a network resource but you can add a new virtual disk backed by your blob storage. This link has more details
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-windows-attach-disk-portal?toc=%2fazure%2fvirtual-machines%2fwindows%2ftoc.json
if it's possible to work with a azure blob storage as a virtual
machine hard drive?
Do you mean mount azure blob storage on Azure VM? If is, the answer is no. You could not mount blob storage to a VM. You could download/upload blob data to your VMs . You also could mount Azure File Shares to VMs. Azure File share supports SMB. When you mount Azure File shares on your VMs, you could use them like as hard drives.
When working with a VHD hosted within an Azure Storage account, are there any operations one can perform to access the Storage account directly?
I.e. I create a VM and store it's VHD in a blob in account A, are there any local/efficient ways to work with data in account A from the VM?
See if Azure Storage Files service will work for you. You may attach your storage as a file share and communicate with that directly using traditional APIs.
Apart of that, you may use cross-platform Azure Storage Explorer for communicating with other Storage subservices like Blobs.
Is there any way to create a drive in windows azure, and then that the users at the company can map a drive in their windows explorer, and upload documents there?
If so, how can I do that?
At first I thought you could do that through Azure File Service announced recently but then I found out that you can only mount in the VMs running in the same region as the storage account.
You may want to look at Gladinet Cloud Desktop tool which allows you to mount a blob storage account as a drive on the local computer. More information about this can be found here: http://www.gladinet.com/p/map_azure_storage_as_virtual_drive.htm.
Other than this, AFAIK there are no other ways to map a storage account as a drive on your local computer.
In Windows Azure, I have created a number of virtual machines over the same storage account. I want to move some of those virtual machines to a different storage account so that I can have Geo-Replication for only some of them instead of all.
Is there any way to change the storage account of a VM?
There is no such feature provided out of the box. What you can do is following:
Shut down the VM
Copy the system disk's VHD to the new storage account (use Copy Blob feature!)
Create a new VM based on the copied VHD
(Pray that the new VM will boot up successfully :) )
Most of the times this scenario is valid and works.
Yes you can. Please find the refrences below-
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/10/22/migrate-azure-virtual-machines-between-storage-accounts/
http://michaelwasham.com/windows-azure-powershell-reference-guide/copying-vhds-blobs-between-storage-accounts/