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Stpete111
Stpete111

Reputation: 3437

Access Azure Virtual Machine File Structure from outside the VM

We have Windows Server 2016 Azure Virtual Machines using managed disks.

I am trying to create an Azure Data Factory pipeline that will let me copy certain files from a folder on the hard drives of those VMs, to our Azure SQL Server. I was quite surprised to see no ADF connectors available for Azure VMs; then I checked Logic Apps - same issue, no available connectors for connecting to Azure VM's there either.

Then I did some Googling to find out how, in general, you can access an Azure VM file structure from outside (without using Remote Desktop) and was even more surprised to see that there isn't any info out there about this (not even that it can't be done).

Is it possible for me to access the file system of my Windows Server 2016 Azure VM without using Remote Desktop? The VM's are running Managed Disks if that makes any difference.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1846

Answers (2)

Yu Tao
Yu Tao

Reputation: 798

Here are some instruction slides on the Azure storage system and their Storage Explorer App.

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Upvotes: 1

Yu Tao
Yu Tao

Reputation: 798

You can either ssh your_vm_ip and then use rsync command to download or upload files.

rsync -au --progress [email protected]:/remote_dir/remote_dir/ /local_dir/local_dir/

Otherwise you can install Dropbox in the VM and your local computer, transfering small files in the shared Dropbox folder is very fast..

Upvotes: 1

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