Azure File Sync

Question

Hello,

I'm trying to find a solution for the scenario below:

"There is an on-prem file server on SITE A. Users are using that server for accessing quite big files (working with photoshop, etc) so low latency is a must. There is around 19 TB of data on that File Server. There is also a remote office SITE B that need access this files. Currently, the main site (SITE A) is syncing with SITE B on hourly basis. Both servers are running SAMBA server. There will be few more offices added in the near future that will be in different countries. The internet coneection on sites is 100/100 Mb"

Now, what I'm trying to achieve is - I would like to implement some "hybrid" scenario so that files are available for all offices. We can't just move the file server completely to cloud due to the latency so would need some "caching" on site. During my research, I've found an AWS Storage GW solution that was looking great so I've spent couple of weeks trying to get familiar and test it. Today, AWS techs informed me that this can't be used as it was not designed to have multiple "writers" from different location/sites. So, I'm at the beggining again :/....

I've just found similar service in Azure - "Azure File Sync", and trying to find out whether the above could be achieved with it. From what I've read so far, ...it seems to be fine, but would like to get some advise from ppl who have more experience with it. I'm doing my research on this servise meanwhile, but just wants to avoid spending time and find out that it would not work eventually (similar to what happend with AWS GW :) )

thanks in advance ;)

Answer 1

Hi @Porat Arzouan
For both your questions - that should not be a problem..... I can make changes to meet those requirements if required. Was wondering whether File Sync was designed for my scenario at all..... from what I've read so far, it looks like it was.... But wanted to clarify it with experts :)

Thanks for those two points.... will keep in mind. Gonna make a deep research now about File Sync :)

Answer 2

So first question SITE A and SITE B have the same domain same NTFS permissions?

If the answer is yes so you can do it

Second question SITE A and SITE B are on the same region?

The limitation of Azure file sync is you can only have one cloud endpoint and multiple "on premises" endpoints,

If you want to do cloud tiering you need to check where the on premise file share resides because cloud tiering doesn't work on system drive.