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How to mount blob container on Windows VM, any latest technique?

Jegadheesan Jayavel 41 Reputation points
2022-06-02T19:55:13.393+00:00

We created a Storage blob container and two VMs on a single resource group.

How to mount the blob container as shared network drive on Windows based VMs?

We could see some third party tools exist in the market.

Did Azure has any option to create blob container as network drive in windows? Any powershell scripts available?

Note: We are able to mount the File share as network but unable to mount Blob container on windows VM.

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  1. deherman-MSFT 38,021 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2022-06-02T20:31:18.39+00:00

    @Jegadheesan Jayavel

    I understand you are wanting to mount blob storage on your vms to share files and folders.

    Blob storage was not designed to be a filesystem and I would recommend using Azure Files. That being said there are a few options that you can explore.

    Accessing Blob Storage through AzCopy or Azure Storage Explorer. You can also consider using SFTP for blob storage.

    Mounting as NFS 3.0 is available with Linux VMs. Although not officially supported, some users have been able to configure this to work with Windows VMs. You can check this video for steps on how some have performed this.

    Hope this helps! Let me know if you have further questions or issues.

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  1. Bjoern Peters 8,921 Reputation points
    2022-06-02T20:00:13.94+00:00
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