Creating a storage account with high availability
- In the market place search for storage account and select create
- In the project details, select the resource group you just created
- Under the instance details, supply the name for your storage account.
- Click review
- Once validation is passed, click create
- Wait for it to deploy
- After deployment is done, click go to resource
Configuring high availability
- Select redundancy in the Data management section
- Change the redundancy to Geo-redundant storage
- Click save
How to create a private storage container
- Click containers in the data storage section
- Create a new container by selecting + container
- In the new container pane, enter the name for your container, let the anonymous access level be private and click save
How to test if our container is private
- Click the created container
- Click upload
Click browse for files to select a file
- Click upload
- Click the uploaded file
- Copy the file url
- Paste the url in a browser and search. It will give an error and file doesn't display
How to set up Shared Access Signature
- Select the uploaded file and click generate SAS
- Under permissions, select read
- Set the start and expiry date/time to 24 hours
- Click generate SAS token and URL
- Copy the blob SAS URL
- Paste it in a browser and search. It will display your uploaded file
How to set up replication of content and storage access tiers.
- In the storage account overview, notice the default access tiers
- Select Lifecycle management under Data management
- Click add rule
- Choose a rule name and tick apply rule to all blobs in your storage account
- Tick last modified and Set More than (days ago) to 30 under If
- Under Then, select Move to cool storage
- Click add
How to replicate object from a storage account to another storage account
You need to decide which of the accounts will be Destination account and source account
- From the source storage account, select object replication under Data management
- Select create replication rules
- Select Destination storage account
- Select destination container and source container
- Click create
- Test the rule by uploading a file in the source container, the file will be copied automatically in the destination container after few minutes.
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