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How to install a large volume of NTFS using Azure?

I have an outdated application and third-party software that requires the use of NTFS volumes. A software change would be the last thing.

The requirement is to have a central storage for the media (video, images, etc.) that every computer in the domain can access. The size requirement can be as high as 20 terabytes.

My proposed solution is to create a domain and one of these computers to act as a simple file server with several volumes mounted and accessible from other computers via DFS (Distributed File System). The reason the DFS in the picture is because we want to extend the DFS service to provide redundancy.

Is my proposed solution viable? I agree that I should evaluate non-Azure storage / hosting solutions that will allow me to fulfill this requirement.

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Best to use Windows Azure Virtual machines. In this model, an extra-large virtual machine can mount 16 separate 1tb disks. You need to combine several virtual machines to achieve your 20 TB requirements.

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It sounds like a smart decision.

  • Using Windows Azure Drives will give you NTFS.
  • Azure drives are stored as virtual hard disks (VHDs) in Blob storage. I believe that 1 drive can contain a maximum of 1 TB of data (Blob storage limit), so you will have to connect multiple drives.
  • This is an interesting article about sharing drives across multiple Role instances via SMB. Admittedly, I have not tried this myself.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1442139/

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