Can we use Azcopy to copy data from on-premises disks (on VMs) to NetApp CVO on Azure

Question

Hi,

We have some 100TB of data on the on-premises servers (disks) at different data centers with millions of files. (All the servers are of Windows flavor)

We have VPNs setup from the on-premises data centers (with the bandwidth ranging from 100Mbps [for 25TB of data at different data centers] through 500 Mbps [for 40TB of data at a single data center]).

We have built NetApp CVO on Azure.

Can anyone advise of the best approach to transfer the data on the file systems of the on-premises VMs to NetApp CVO in Azure?

Requirements:

1. Need to preserve timestamps, permissions, owner/audit information
2. Able to copy the files with special characters
3. Able to copy the files with long path names

Regards,
VJ

Answer 1

@VJ-8370
I don't believe you can use AzCopy with NetApp CVO as it is used to copy blobs or files to or from a storage account. Unless you plan to first move the data to Azure storage, then transfer that data to NetApp CVO. In that case I would probably recommend Data Box, based on your speed and size. Since you are using NetApp CVO you might consider using their Cloud Sync service to perform the data migration. Since this is not a native Azure solution it might be best to reach out directly to NetApp for advice.

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Answer 2

@VJ-8370 Permissions and timestamps are not natively preserved by Data Box Disk. Azure File Sync can be used for it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-sync-offline-data-transfer

Though the article is for Data Box, the same applies for Disk as well.

File name constraints are as per Azure naming conventions.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databox/data-box-limits#azure-storage-limits
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/naming-and-referencing-containers--blobs--and-metadata
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/naming-and-referencing-shares--directories--files--and-metadata

Hope this helps!

Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

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