How To Use Azure Storage Explorer
Enable azcopy for blob upload and download.
How to use azure storage explorer. Azure storage explorer provides the ui interface for various storage tasks and now it supports using azcopy as a transfer engine to provide the highest throughput for transferring your files for azure storage. Both smb 2 1 and smb 3 0 are supported. Attach to a local. If you know either of the account keys to your storage account you can use this option to quickly connect.
This capability is available today as a preview in azure storage explorer. Azure storage can store many types of data from nosql tables to vhds. Note for a complete introduction to azure blob storage refer to azure blob basics and azure blob service. If your storage explorer isn t connected to azure you will not be able to use it to manage resources.
Launch azure storage explorer and click the plug in icon on the left. Use a name and key. The advantage of using azure storage explorer instead of mounting the file share by using smb is that all requests that are made with azure storage explorer are made by using the file rest api. Azure file storage is a service that offers file shares in the cloud using the standard server message block smb protocol.
Find your keys in the storage account page by selecting settings access keys in the azure portal. To get a shared access signature uri you can either use storage explorer or the azure portal. 7 minutes to read 3. She also provides an example of using the azure storage net sdk to upload files.
If you are using vm that was set up with the scripts provided by data science virtual machines in azure then azure storage explorer is already installed on the vm. Using storage explorer with azure file storage. Azure data lake storage massively scalable secure data lake functionality built on azure blob storage file storage file shares that use the standard smb 3 0 protocol azure data explorer fast and highly scalable data exploration service. This section goes over connecting it to your azure account so that you can manage resources using storage explorer.