November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
276 pages
7h 6m
English
Content preview from Learning Microsoft Azure Storage
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File storage
The File storage service is the easiest and coolest service to work with. You can use it to create network file shares on Azure, and access them from anywhere in the world.
Server Message Block (SMB) and Common Internet File System (CIFS) are the only protocols that can be used to access these file shares.
As a result, multiple Azure VMs and on-premises machines can access the same file share and have read and write privileges on it. Azure File shares can be mounted to different operating systems, such as, Windows, Linux, and even macOS concurrently.