Migration of File shares from Azure VM to Azure file shares.

Question

We want your advisory in suggesting the appropriate migration tool to migrate the data from azure VM to azure file share.

Answer 1

@Nirmith Shankar (Microland) Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

There are several migration tools available that can help you migrate data from an Azure VM to an Azure file share. Here are a few options to consider:
I would recommened to use Azure File Sync & azcopy based on your scenario.

Recommended	Tool	Support for Azure file shares	Preservation of file fidelity
	Azure Storage Mover	Supported.	Full fidelity.*
	Azure Storage Mover	Supported.	Full fidelity.*
	RoboCopy	Supported. Azure file shares can be mounted as network drives.	Full fidelity.*
	Azure File Sync	Natively integrated into Azure file shares.	Full fidelity.*
	Azure Storage Migration Program	Supported.	Full fidelity.*
	Storage Migration Service	Indirectly supported. Azure file shares can be mounted as network drives on SMS target servers.	Full fidelity.*
	Data Box (including the data copy service to load files onto the device)	Supported. (Data Box Disks doesn't support large file shares)	Data Box and Data Box Heavy fully support metadata. Data Box Disks does not preserve file metadata.
	AzCopy latest version	Supported but not fully recommended.	Doesn't support differential copies at scale, and some file fidelity might be lost. Learn how to use AzCopy with Azure file shares
	Azure Storage Explorer latest version	Supported but not recommended.	Loses most file fidelity, like ACLs. Supports timestamps.
	Azure Data Factory	Supported.	Doesn't copy metadata.

Choose an Azure solution for data transfer: :https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-choose-data-transfer-solution

Create an SMB Azure file share and connect it to a Windows VM using the Azure portal

Additional information: Consider this list of features that SMB Azure file shares don't support.
Transfer Data from a managed disk to an azure file share
Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.    

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Answer 2

Take a look at Gs Richcopy360 and CloudFuze, both are ideal for migrating the data from Azure VM to Azure file share, they support SMB and also support migrating from cloud to cloud.

Answer 3

Take a look at Gs Richcopy360 and CloudFuze, both are ideal for migrating the data from Azure VM to Azure file share, they support SMB and also support migrating from cloud to cloud.