Azure Files Sync Cloud Tiering

Question

Hi
I need to replace a Files server that is part of File Sync feature on Azure and Cloud Tiering is enabled

My goal is to move data from that on-prem server to another on-prem one and continued to use Azure File sync with that one, instead.

My question is:

What is the best way to achieve this by making sure that the Azure data will not off load entirely locally?

Do I just stop(or pause) file sync, move the "Hot" local data stored on the FS to the other one, install agent on the one and activate the agent on that one?

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

Hello @Rose, Sylvain ,
Thanks for your query !
Can you try below steps:

1) Install Azure File Sync Agent on that On-Prem Server2 and register with that same Storage Sync Service
2) In the Azure Portal , Create a new Server End point in the same Sync Group where original Server Endpoint was created.
3) Once Step2) is done - you should be able to see all the data sync'd to new Server2 (Please validate from your end)
4) Now you can safely delete the original Server End point.
5) Unregister the server1

(I just tested above steps with Azure VMs which worked successfully)

Answer 2

@Rose, Sylvain Welcome to Microsoft Q&A platform, Thank you for posting your query here!

Firstly, apologies for the delay in responding here and any inconvenience this issue may have caused. Adding more information @shiva patpi .

Additional information: You need to install the agent in another on-prem Server and configure the Azure file sync.
For example, you have two distinct sets of files that you want to manage with Azure File Sync, you would create two sync groups and add different endpoints to each sync group.

When adding a new server endpoint to an existing sync group, if you choose either the recall namespace first option or recall namespace only option for initial download mode, files will show up as tiered until they're downloaded locally. To avoid this, select the avoid tiered files option for initial download mode. To manually recall files, use the Invoke-StorageSyncFileRecall cmdlet.

If cloud tiering was enabled on the server endpoint and then disabled, files will remain tiered until they're accessed.

Hope this helps!

Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

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