High availability of Azure premium file share

Question

What is Microsoft recommendation for high availability of Azure file share (premium with Large file share enabled).

This file share is in Central US region so I can only use LRS. In this case what is the recommended high availability solution ?

Answer 1

@Bachar Bader Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A. I understand that you are having questions regarding Azure Premium file shares high availability.

The current options are:

Option #1: Configure the storage account to use LRS replication and use a script to sync between storage accounts in different regions.
Option #2: Use Azure File Sync to sync the data to a secondary region as covered in the following blog post: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-files-enhances-data-protection-capabilities/
Option #3: Configure the storage account to use ZRS replication (if available in the region).

Since ZRS is not available for US Central, you can utilize the first 2 options. Hope that helps.

Please let us know if you have any more questions and we will be glad to assist you further. Thank you!

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