QUESTION 1 – ANSWERED

You’re running your environment in Azure and you review the following resources

Resource Group – rgmain001

Storage Account – samain001

Azure File Sync – afs001

samain001 contains a file share called IMAGES that contains 1,000 image files.

You need to synchronize the files in Azure to an on-premises Windows server named IMGSYS001.

Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

A) Mount the current Blob storage in state as a file system

B) Transfer data with the AzCopy

C) Create a sync group and a cloud endpoint

D) Register IMGSYS001
E) Install the Azure File Sync agent on IMGSYS001

Correct answer:

C, D, E

Step 1 (E): Install the Azure File Sync agent on IMGSYS001 – The Azure File Sync agent is a downloadable package that enables Windows Server to be synced with an Azure file share

Step 2 (D): Register IMGSYS001.

Register Windows Server with Storage Sync Service – establishes a trust relationship between your physical server (or cluster) and the Storage Sync Service.

Step 3 (C): Create a sync group and a cloud endpoint – defines the sync topology for a set of files. Endpoints within a sync group are kept in sync with each other. A sync group must contain one cloud endpoint, which represents an Azure file share and one or more server endpoints. A server endpoint represents a path on registered server.

AzCopy is a command-line utility designed for copying data to/from Microsoft Azure Blob, File, and Table storage, using simple commands designed for optimal performance. You can copy data between a file system and a storage account, or between storage accounts but it is not the best answer to fully synchronize files in Azure to an on-premises server.

You can mount Blob storage as a file system with blobfuse, but this is only available through the Linux file system. Blobfuse is a virtual file system driver for Azure Blob storage.