Access company's fileshare from Azure ML Compute

Question

I have been doing some searching around and can't seem to find anything particularly related to this question. Is it possible to connect to a local fileshare system from an Azure ML instance? Basically, I have a large amount of data in the form of images stored on a local drive and would like to use ml.azure to train and make predictions on this data.

Answer 1

Hello,

I am not pretty sure what's "company fileshare" you are mentioning. But Azure Machine Learning Studio does support upload data from local/ datastore/ Web URL/ public dataset. You can create your dataset for training.

Reference:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/how-to-connect-data-ui#create-datasets

Besides Studio, you can also connect to datastore and storage.

There are two dataset types, based on how users consume them in training; FileDatasets and TabularDatasets. Both types can be used in Azure Machine Learning training workflows involving, estimators, AutoML, hyperDrive and pipelines.

A FileDataset references single or multiple files in your datastores or public URLs. If your data is already cleansed, and ready to use in training experiments, you can download or mount the files to your compute as a FileDataset object.

A TabularDataset represents data in a tabular format by parsing the provided file or list of files. This provides you with the ability to materialize the data into a pandas or Spark DataFrame so you can work with familiar data preparation and training libraries without having to leave your notebook. You can create a TabularDataset object from .csv, .tsv, .parquet, .jsonl files, and from SQL query results.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/how-to-create-register-datasets#dataset-types

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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