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Umar Abdulqadri
Umar Abdulqadri

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How to create blob storage in Azure

Creating a storage account

  • Sign in to Azure portal

  • From the all service blade search for storage account

  • Click on create fill the resource and storage account name as shown in the below image proceed to create and review
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  • once validated click on create and wait for the storage to deployed. Search for storage to verify if the storage account name entered earlier is created

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*Working with blob storage *

  • Click the name of the new storage account(qadriumarr), scroll to the Data storage section in the left menu, and then click Containers.

Click + Container and complete the information. When done click Create as shown in the below images

blob storage

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Back in the Portal, click on (qadriumarr) , and then select Upload.

Browse for the image file you just saved on your local computer. Select it and then select upload.

Click the Advanced arrow, leave the default values but review the available options, and then click Upload.

Note: You can upload as many blobs as you like in this way. New blobs will be listed within the container.

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Once the file is uploaded, right-click on the file and notice the
options including View/edit, Download, Properties, and Delete.

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Monitoring the created storage account

Return to the storage account blade and click Diagnose and solve problems.

Explore some of the most common storage problems. Notice there are multiple troubleshooters here.

On the storage account blade, scroll down to the Monitoring section and click Insights. Notice there is information on Failures, Performance, Availability, and Capacity. as shown in the below images

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Note: To avoid additional costs, you can optionally remove this resource group. Search for resource groups, click your resource group, and then click Delete resource group. Verify the name of the resource group and then click Delete. Monitor the Notifications to see how the delete is proceeding.

Thank you allll

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