Hi, i am working with azure these days, and the first thing i did was to create my own file share on the cloud/accessible via instead of using one drive or google drive.
So here are very easy steps to create your own cloud based shared drive on the Azure:-
So here are very easy steps to create your own cloud based shared drive on the Azure:-
- Login to azure portal:- https://portal.azure.com
- Click New and next search the market place for storage account (Use if you have any existing one)
- Click Create and keep settings as shown in figure below, the most important thing among settings is performance, for file share the performance have to be standard as Files storage is not available in Premium performance
- Wait for it to be created, next once created open the storage account and click on overview, next click on the Files in the adjacent window to open file service and click + to add a new file share:-
One thing to note here that we can have file share size upto 5 TB i.e 5120 GB only - Next click ok and we are good. to access it just open the file storage and click on Connect. You can choose the connection guidelines as per your wish, i prefer using "new use" command. Just copy the new use command and run command shell on your machine and paste the copied string and hit enter.
Basically the string you copied is "net use [File Share Path] [User Account] [Access Key1 of Storage Account]". - Just to add here, lets see the cost of creating 1 TB File Share Per Month on Pricing Calculator:-
- 62 Dollars plus operations cost.
