Shared drive between Azure Virtual Machines

Question

I have a couple of VMs and my website is backed up to my Azure storage. I wanted to mount the azure storage as a drive to be able to have shared storage between the VMs. Any way I can do that?

Answer 1

A network file share can be created from the Storage account that can be mounted as a drive on multiple VMs and not on Azure but for both Unix, Linux or Windows. 

Follow these steps to create one:

1. Go to your Storage Account 
2. Click on FIles -> Fileshare
3. Give values to name and Disk space quota 
4. Click on connect 

You have to make sure of the fact that this service only works for Local Redundant Storage (Not for zone or geo).

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