Creating a file share

In this section, we’ll learn how to create a file share. Head over to Storage Accounts service and click “Create“

1. At the Basics pane, fill in the required fields with a red asterisk *. In this article, we will leave the other panes to their default settings.

2. Go to your newly created storage account and click 1. “File Shares” and click 2. “+ File share “.

3. At the create file share tab, enter your preferred file share name and the tier type and click “Create“. The following storage tier types are:

• Premium – for workloads with application that requires consistent high performance and low latency, within single-digit milliseconds for most IO operations, for IO-intensive workloads.
• Transaction optimized – transaction-heavy workloads that don’t need the latency offered by premium file shares.
• Hot – optimized for general purpose file sharing scenarios such as team shares.
• Cool – optimized for online archive storage scenarios.

4. You now have your file share. You can directly upload your files and change your storage tier using the Azure portal.

Mounting a file share

In this section, we’ll mount our file share created from the previous section and save a file that should appear on the Azure portal.

1. Head over to the file share and click “Connect“. For this tutorial, we will connect using macOS. Copy the script and paste it into your terminal.

– You may also connect using your Windows or Linux workloads. Just copy the script provided by the connect pane.

2. Once connected to your file share, we will save a TutorialsDojo logo to the file share. 

3. Head over to your file share using the Azure portal. You should now see our newly uploaded TutorialsDojo logo.

You can also use your on-premises Active Directory or Azure Active Directory to support identity-based access to Azure file shares over SMB. Enabling identity-based access for your Azure file shares allows you to replace existing file servers with Azure file shares without replacing your existing directory service, maintaining seamless user access to shares.