Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

File storage key points

The following tips should be considered, as they will help you when designing your storage solution using the File service:

• Since SMB 2.1 does not support encryption, then only the VMs within the same region as the storage account will be able to access it if you are using SMB 2.1. As a result, you have to consider that you cannot access the read-only data available in another region if you are using Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS) as a replication type.
• Since SMB 3.0 S supports encryption, you will be able to mount the file share to any VM around the globe, but port 445 must be opened.
• At the time of writing, only 2 versions of macOS were supported for Azure File shares (Sierra 10.12, and El Capitan 10.11). ...