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Benjamin
Benjamin

Reputation: 490

How see contents of my azure drive?

I'm training with Azure environment and I have some trouble with the object CloudDriver.

I have mounted a drive on a blob (on the Storage Emulator) but I can't see it with a GUI as CloudBerry or Azure Storage Explorer.

If I understand properly this topic client-side-accessing-windows-azure-drive, the blob which store the driver data looks like an other blob ?
So if the drive is really create, I can see him with CloudBerry ?

Other linked question :
Did you know a GUI which can upload page blob (and not block blob) ?

To create my CloudDrive I use this web site : http://archive.loicrebours.fr/index.php/2012/01/29/azure-storage-drive-55/ (but it's a french web page).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3598

Answers (3)

user94559
user94559

Reputation: 60153

ClumsyLeaf CloudXplorer uploads page blobs nicely, so it's a good way to get your VHD into blob storage to use as a Drive.

Upvotes: 1

Sandrino Di Mattia
Sandrino Di Mattia

Reputation: 24895

The cloud drive is simply a VHD stored in your storage account as Page Blob. Like David explains, if you're working in the emulator the cloud drive is simulated. But if you run the application in Windows Azure the VHD file will be present in your storage account (I assume you'll be able to see it in CloudBerry, but I don't know if it supports page blobs).

I don't know if there's a GUI allowing you to upload page blobs, but there's a console application that allows you to upload VHD files as page blobs like this:

vhdupload.exe input-file http://accountname.blob.core.windows.net/container/blobname key.txt

Upvotes: 1

David Makogon
David Makogon

Reputation: 71121

When using the storage emulator, the cloud drive is simulated using local storage on your disk. To see its contents, you can open the storage emulator and choose to view cloud drive contents (which opens an explorer window to the correct temporary directory). See this article for more details.

Note: The Windows Azure Drives lab is also in the Windows Azure Training Kit.

Upvotes: 2

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