Azure File Storage help

Question

Background- we have multiple lab instruments each with their own Windows 10 PC attached. These machines run and gather data to fast local storage. But each is then locked in to just that machine.

Goal- Collate all of the data collected from individual machines into one Azure File storage account. Map a drive to that account back on user machines on premise so that they can go to, for example, their O:\ drive and see data collected from all of the lab instruments. Further, we would like to map things so that if the job on machine 1 is in a folder called CUSTOMER1\<jobnumber>\file01 and we have the same path on machine 2 with CUSTOMER1\<jobnumber>\file02 that the O:\ drive that is available to all users with that drive mapped shows CUSTOMER1\<jobnumber> and has both file01 and file02 in it.

Thank you,
Nathan

Answer 1

@NathanF
It sounds like your use-case fits perfectly with Azure Files. You can have machines write to separate files in the same path and view that data on other machines. I recommend reading through our Planning for an Azure Files deployment and letting us know if you have specific questions.

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Answer 2

@NathanF
Thanks for providing those additional details. Yes, I was assuming you would want to write directly to the file share. There are several methods you could use to write files locally then sync those files to Azure storage. One method would be to write to local storage then set up a scheduled task in Windows that copies the data from your local drive to the Azure File share drive. Since you prefer to write to local storage then you might consider using azcopy sync and sync that to Blob storage instead.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have further questions/concerns.

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