If you have created a datastore you can create a file share. Just go to your datastore resource and select File shares in the Data storage section on the left:
From this screen, you can now create a new file share. Specify a name and tier. The premium tier can only be selected if you have a premium storage account. The premium tier uses SSD disks instead of HDD disks.
Please note the maximum IO/s, egress, ingress, capacity (5 TiB):
In this second post of the series I will discuss how to store documents on my local machine in Azure. First thing to do is to create an Azure storage account.
Create a storage account. This can be accomplished in the Azure portal for example. When creating a storage account you need to specify basic information like:
Create a new Azure storage account in Azure portal
So more information about the basic screen:
Subscription
Select your subscription. This can be a free, Visual Studio Enterprise or some other type of subscription.
Resource group
Select an existing or create a new resource group.
Storage account name
This must be a unique name.
Region
Choose an Azure region. Costs can vary depending on the region you select.
Performance
Standard or Premium. Standard will suffice for most scenarios.
Redundancy
Choose a replication strategy that fits your needs. The options you can choose require some theoretical information however. LRS is the lowest cost option and will suffice for now and is also recommended for non-critical scenarios.
On the advanced, networking, data protection sections a lot more options can be specified. We now leave these as is to avoid unnecessary complexity. Study these sections however so you know what’s possible or configurable. When done click ‘Create’ and the deployment will start. This will take a couple of seconds. Now you can explore your new created resource.
In this series, I will share my Azure experience and journey. Because in my opinion, it’s quite a lot of information when you are just starting. There is a lot of knowledge out there on the internet but where do you need to start and what are the first steps if you’ve purchased an Azure subscription? I first got a little bit lost in this so that’s why I decided to share my journey in order to make you help.
In this series, I will try to share my knowledge and experience to help you. My view is to discuss only a small piece or one specific feature to make things modular for better understanding and usage of knowledge. I try to explain matters from a ‘from-scratch’ view to be as clear as possible in my posts and explanation.
It’s always a good idea to first try to follow some basic training on Microsoft Learn for example. The URL is https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/learn/ There are free excellent courses with even some labs with no costs and no Azure subscription required. These labs can be performed in the Azure portal in a sandbox to get you acquainted.
Next or if you have not studied anything yet, you need yourself to get a subscription. In my case, I got one provided by my employer. If this is not possible you can signup on portal.azure.com to start a free trial. After the trial, you can then use some Azure services for 12 months without costs but sometimes with some limitations though.
If you have a Visual Studio Enterprise subscription you can manage your monthly Azure credit and subscription by going to https://my.visualstudio.com On this website I activated my Azure monthly credit:
Now that I should have some ‘credit’ what to do next? Let’s go to https://portal.azure.com/ and let’s just explore what all these buttons are in the top bar:
That’s it for now. I like to keep things simple and brief. This way you also don’t need to spend hours reading extensive posts. Until the next post…. stay safe!
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