File Copy with Mobility Service

Question

Hi folks,

we have some NFS share on our ON-prem VMware machines, which will be used by applications after an Failover to azure. We have tested some application within TestfailOver and until the using of NFS share everything was good. I see the NetApp azure files Ontap solution which support snapshot and WORM. Unfortunately the cost are really high. so we think abut the Azure NetApp File soltuin, but here snapshot is only manual available and WORM not supported.
On idea is to copy the files from the on-prem maschine with the azure mobilitiy service to an Storage account wiithin azure. is this possible or do you have some other ideas?

Thanks for your time and feedback!

Answer 1

You’re touching on several topics, but mostly around storage and not ASR.

I don’t have any experience with NetApp Files. As for the WORM requirement, we do have immutable storage for Azure Blob storage.

For the point/question about copying files from on-premises to Azure, you would not use the Mobility Agent for that, since that is for VM level replication, not storage account replication.

Have you looked into Azure File Sync?

You haven’t specified what environment they’re coming from (ie. VMware, Hyper-V, or physical), but if you look at the Storage subsection in the ‘Support matrix for disaster recovery of VMware VMs and physical servers to Azure’ documentation, it shows that Guest/Server NFS is not supported.

Answer 2

Hi SadiqAhmed,

thanks for your feedback.

VMware VMs to azure is our recovery field.

Do you any suggestion to including recovery for NFS shares not the Net App file service. Is the NFS 3.0 blob storage an alternative?

Thanks!