Merge Azure Cloud Shell profiles into one storage account

Gregor Anton Grinč 171

Hello,

we currently have profiles for azure Cloud Shell divided between multiple storage accounts under file shares and we would love to get them under one subscription and storage account. What is the best way of doing that?

Just recently I copied profiles from one storage account to another with 'azcopy' but unfortunately, I can not mount to these file shares which were copied. But when I mount back on original file shares in their original location everything works just fine. Therefore am I doing something wrong here or how should be done in an optimal scenario?

Thank you

Sumarigo-MSFT 43,561 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-03-28T16:04:07.04+00:00

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Sumarigo-MSFT 43,561 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-03-30T17:19:09.7866667+00:00

@Gregor Anton Grinč

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Silvia Wibowo 2,851 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-03-20T03:55:22.9366667+00:00
Hi @Gregor Anton Grinč ,

When you create Cloud Shell using basic settings and select only a subscription, Cloud Shell creates three resources on your behalf in the supported region that's nearest to you:

Resource group: cloud-shell-storage-<region>

Storage account: cs<uniqueGuid>

fileshare: cs-<user>-<domain>-com-<uniqueGuid>

Using the advanced option, you can associate existing resources. When selecting a Cloud Shell region, you must select a backing storage account co-located in the same region. For example, if your assigned region is West US then you must associate a fileshare that resides within West US as well.

Please be aware about supported storage account region and security considerations.
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Gregor Anton Grinč 171 Reputation points

2023-03-30T18:14:35.77+00:00

Yes, I know that. But how do I merge two storage accounts containing fileshares into only one storage account? We want to have only one storage account in which our cloud shell profiles will reside.

Silvia Wibowo 2,851 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-03-30T20:26:28.4633333+00:00

Please note:

For security, each user should create their own storage account. For Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC), users must have contributor access or above at the storage account level.

Storage account for CloudShell must reside in the same supported storage account region. Which means if you have multiple CloudShell sessions in different geographical region eg. one in Americas and another in Asia, you can't put them in the same storage account.

If you have important files created inside a CloudShell and you want to copy those files into the new storage account:

Open your CloudShell (mounted to Storage Account A).

Unmount your clouddrive: Bash "clouddrive unmount" or PowerShell "Dismount-CloudDrive".

Close your CloudShell.

Open your CloudShell - it will say "You have no storage mounted" - click on "Show advanced settings". You can choose an existing storage account (Storage Account B).

Copy the content of fileshare from Storage Account A to Storage Account B. You can use AzCopy or other tool like Azure Storage Explorer.

Delete Storage Account A.

Sumarigo-MSFT 43,561 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-04-10T08:32:04.56+00:00

@Gregor Anton Grinč To merge two storage accounts containing file shares into one storage account, you will need to copy the data from the file shares in one storage account to the file shares in the other storage account. Once the data is copied, you can delete the storage account that you no longer need**,**
Here are the high-level steps:

Create a new storage account that will contain the file shares from both storage accounts**1**.

Use a tool like AzCopy or Robocopy to copy the data from the file shares in one storage account to the file shares in the other storage account.

Once the data is copied, verify that the data is present in the file shares in the new storage account

Delete the storage account that you no longer need

Please note that you will need to update any references to the old storage account in your cloud shell profiles to point to the new storage account. Let me know if you need more information on any of these steps.

Move an Azure Storage account to another region

Persist files in Azure Cloud Shell Kindly let us know if you still have more questions on this. I wish to engage with you offline for a closer look and provide a quick and specialized assistance, please send an email with subject line “Attn:subm” to AzCommunity[at]Microsoft[dot]com referencing this thread and the Azure subscription ID, I will follow-up with you. Once again, apologies for any inconvenience with this issue.
Thanks for your patience and co-operation.
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