Azure data disk, sync to on-prem workstation?

Question

Hi,

Recently moved a client from on-prem server to an Azure VM 2019. We have site-site VPN established with RemoteAPP setup on the server.
We have a set of files about 40GB in size on the server, these files are within a datadisk attached to the AzureVM, images files which integrate with the application, they're also pushed via another app to the company's website. Everything works pretty well.

The problem is we have 1 user on-site that needs to access these images files which are used for InDesign. I have setup a share on the AzureServer and mapped the drives on this users PC. The files are very slow to access and browse and stalls explorer for minutes at a time.

I was thinking of some of replication/sync tool so I can have these locally on the users PC for speed of access and also on the server for the 2 applications.

Any ideas on how to go about this? appreciate it.

Answer 1

@Steven Craighead
You might consider trying Azure Files to see if the performance works better than your current setup. If you are able to have an on-premises Windows Server then Azure File Sync would offer you the on-premise performance while syncing with Azure Files.

Another option might be using OneDrive. You could make the files available offline which should cache the files locally.

Hopefully this gives you some ideas. Let me know if you have further questions or issues and we will be happy to assist.

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