Setting up SFTP with Windows VM & Azure File share

Question

I have a requirement from the project to setup the SFTP in Windows VM and mount the Azure file share and then update the SFTP default path to point to the Azure file share path.

 

As of now below are the things I have completed so far-

1. Installation of SFTP using OpenSSH and also tried Bitvise in the windows VM.
2. Mounting the file share to the Windows VM

Issue-

When changing the directory in the SFTP configuration file to point to the Azure file share its not working. 

Workaround which I found so far from some articles(I didn't test it yet)-

Integrate AADDS and enable it in the storage account & Enable AD login in the Windows VM - This can't be done because of so many different factors in it.

Use Enable SFTP at the Azure storage container and use it - This I cannot do as it requires some code changes from customer end which can't be done at the moment.

Any leads on this would be great.

Answer 1

@Abhishek Kumar Gupta Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

SFTP feature only supports blob storage, so you won’t be able to mount an Azure file share. 
Azure Files doesn’t support SFTP, this is for Blob storage only. You can still use SFTP to access your file share, however, you would need to set up the SFTP server yourself. Generally speaking, customers want to use File Sync to cache their data on-premises like they do with StorSimple today,

Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.

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Answer 2

Hello there,

SFTP is a very widely used protocol which many organizations use today for transferring files within their organization or across organizations. Creating a VM based SFTP is costly and high-maintenance. ACI service is very inexpensive and requires very little maintenance, while data is stored in Azure Files which is a fully managed SMB service in cloud.

This template demonstrates an creating a SFTP server using Azure Container Instances (ACI). The template generates two resources:

storage account is the storage account used for persisting data, and contains the Azure Files share

sftp-group is a container group with a mounted Azure File Share. The Azure File Share will provide persistent storage after the container is terminated.

Enable SFTP on Azure File Share using ARM Template and upload files using WinScp

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-paas-blog/enable-sftp-on-azure-file-share-using-arm-template-and-upload/ba-p/3662578

Hope this resolves your Query !!

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