[EXERCISE] IMPLEMENT AND USE AZURE FILE STORAGE

Are you looking for a step-by-step exercise to implement and use Azure File Storage? here are the steps to implement Azure File Storage.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Create an Azure File Service share
2. Map a drive to the Azure File Service share from an Azure VM

Task 1: Create an Azure File Service share

Step 1: In the Azure portal, navigate to the blade displaying the properties of the second storage account you created in the previous exercise.

Step 2: From the storage account blade select File shares under File Service.

Step 3: From the storage account File shares blade, create a new file share with the following settings:

• Name: az10002share1
• Quota: 5 GB

Task 2: Map a drive to the Azure File Service share from an Azure VM

Note: Before you start this task, ensure that the template deployment you started in Exercise 5 has completed.

Step 1: Navigate to the az10002share1 blade and display the Connect blade.

Step 2: From the Connect blade, copy into Clipboard the PowerShell commands that connect to the file share from a Windows computer.

Step 3: In the Azure portal, navigate to the vm1 blade or create new vm1 if not already created.

Step 4: From the vm1 blade, connect to the Azure VM via the RDP protocol and, when prompted to sign in, provide the following credentials:

Admin Username & Password

Step 5: Within the RDP session, start a Windows PowerShell ISE session.

Step 6: From the Windows PowerShell ISE session, open the script pane and paste into it the content of your local Clipboard.

Step 7: Execute the script, and verify that its output confirms successful mapping of the Z: drive to the Azure Storage File Service share.

Step 8: Right click the Start menu, click Run, in the Open dialog box type Z: and press the Enter key. This will open a File Explorer window displaying the contents of the Z: drive.

Step 9: In the File Explorer window, create a folder named Folder1 on the Z: drive.

Step 10: In the File Explorer window, navigate to Folder1 and create a text document named File1.txt.

Note: Make sure that you take into account the default configuration of File Explorer that does not display known file extensions in order to avoid creating a file named File1.txt.

Step 11: From the PowerShell prompt, enter Z: to change the directory context to the mapped drive.

Step 12: From the PowerShell prompt, enter dir to list the contents of the drive. You should see the directory that you created from File Explorer.

Step 13: From the PowerShell prompt, enter cd Folder1 to change directories to the folder. Run the dir command again to list the file contents.

Result:

After you completed this exercise, you have created an Azure File Service share, mapped a drive to the file share from an Azure VM, and used File Explorer from the Azure VM to create a folder and a file in the file share.