Moving a stroage account between subscriptions

Umer Ahmed 20

Hello Support,

I'm planning to move a Storage account that has a container with 10TB of data. This SA is integrl to our CICD system, hence we can't afford a downtime. So, i'm a bit cautious with this move and have the following questions:

how long this move would take?
what happens if the move fails?
will there be a downtime during the move operation?

please let me know

thanks

Umer

KarishmaTiwari-MSFT 20,212 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-07-01T23:27:55.7533333+00:00
@Umer Ahmed

If high availability is crucial, convert the storage account to zone-redundant storage (ZRS) within the primary region.

ZRS replicates data across three separate data centers using Azure availability zones.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/move-resource-group-and-subscription
Umer Ahmed 20 Reputation points

2024-07-02T09:41:42.2033333+00:00
Hello Karishma,

thanks for your message, I wanted to ask what benefit would this give me in the context of this move? Its currently set to LRS, which gurantees this:
Locally redundant storage (LRS) replicates your storage account three times within a single data center in the primary region. LRS provides at least 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability of objects over a given year.

So its replicated already, i don't think replicating it across regions is going to bring any more benefit in this context. Can you please answer the questions i've asked, most importantly:

what happens if the move fails?

as I need to have a roll back plan
Umer Ahmed 20 Reputation points

2024-07-16T10:19:26.1933333+00:00

any updates on this

Accepted answer

Marcin Policht 26,385 Reputation points MVP

2024-07-16T11:36:23.1566667+00:00

As per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/move-resource-group-and-subscription , the content of the storage account (data plane) will be accessible during the migration. The management of the storage account (control plane) will be locked (unavailable) for a maximum of four hours, but most moves complete in much less time.

If the move fails, the storage account will remain in place.

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Marcin
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Umer Ahmed 20 Reputation points

2024-07-16T13:20:09.18+00:00

thanks for response Marcin
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