How To Create Azure File Share

This tutorial will help you to To Create an Azure File Share. create an Azure file share, you need to answer three questions about how you will use it:

Firstly, What are the performance requirements for your Azure file share?
Secondly, What size file share do you need?
Thirdly, What are your redundancy requirements for your Azure file share?

Prerequisites

Firstly, get an Azure subscription or create a free account.
Also, If you intend to use Azure PowerShell, install the latest version.
Lastly, If you intend to use the Azure CLI, install the latest version.

Creating a storage account

Azure file shares are deployed intostorage accounts, which are top-level objects that represent a shared pool of storage. This pool of storage can be used to deploy multiple file shares.

Azure supports multiple types of storage accounts for different storage scenarios customers may have, but there are two main types of storage accounts for Azure Files.

General purpose version 2 (GPv2) storage accounts
FileStorage storage accounts

To create a storage account via the Azure portal, Firstly, select+ Create a resource from the dashboard. In the resulting Azure Marketplace search window, search forstorage account and select the resulting search result. This will lead to an overview page for storage accounts; selectCreate to proceed with the storage account creation wizard.

How to Create an Azure File Share? — Image Source – Microsoft

Know about The Basics section

The first section to complete to create a storage account is labeledBasics. This contains all of the required fields to create a storage account. To create a GPv2 storage account, ensure thePerformance radio button is set toStandard and theAccount kind drop-down list is selected toStorageV2 (general purpose v2).

A screenshot of the Performance radio button with Standard selected and Account kind with StorageV2 selected — Image Source – Microsoft

Then, To create a FileStorage storage account, ensure thePerformance radio button is set toPremium and theAccount kind drop-down list is selected toFileStorage.

A screenshot of the Performance radio button with Premium selected and Account kind with FileStorage selected — Image Source – Microsoft

Furthermore, The other basics fields are independent from the choice of storage account:

Subscription
Resource group
Storage account name
Location
Replication
Access tier

Learn about The Networking blade

The networking section allows you to configure networking options. Subsequently, These settings are optional for the creation of the storage account and can be configured later if desired. For more information on these options, see Azure Files networking considerations.

The Advanced blade

The advanced section contains several important settings for Azure file shares:

Secure transfer required
Large file shares

A screenshot of the important advanced settings that apply to Azure Files — Image Source – Microsoft

The other settings that are available in the advanced tab (blob soft-delete, hierarchical namespace for Azure Data Lake storage gen 2, and NFSv3 for blob storage) do not apply to Azure Files.

Review + create

The final step to create the storage account is to select theCreate button on theReview + create tab. This button won't be available if all of the required fields for a storage account are not filled.

Create file share

If you just created your storage account, you can navigate to it from the deployment screen by selectingGo to resource. If you have previously created the storage account, you can navigate to it via the resource group containing it. Once in the storage account, select the tile labeledFile shares (you can also navigate toFile shares via the table of contents for the storage account).

A screenshot of the File shares tile — Image Source – Microsoft

In the file share listing, you should see any file shares you have previously created in this storage account; an empty table if no file shares have been created yet. Select+ File share to create a new file share.

The new file share blade should appear on the screen. Complete the fields in the new file share blade to create a file share:

Name: the name of the file share to be created.
Quota: The quota of the file share for standard file shares; the provisioned size of the file share for premium file shares.

SelectCreate to finishing creating the new share. Note that if your storage account is in a virtual network, you will not be able to successfully create an Azure file share unless your client is also in the virtual network. You can also work around this point-in-time limitation by using the Azure PowerShellNew-AzRmStorageShare cmdlet.