Using vhd in the Azure Cloud Drive from a VM Role as a drive letter

Question

Im my situation i am creating an application that takes in data from FTP and stores that file and them processes the file on the VM that i created and uploaded via VM Role. I have uploaded a 1TB VHD to the cloud drive as a pgae blob to store the data the comes in via FTP. How do i mount the drive letter to the VM so that i can use it as a 1TB drive that appears as another hard drive in my computer or network as X: for example.

The VM should not be rebooted or changed but because of the significant importance of the files coming in i need storage that is NOT stateless like the VM storage hence the 1TB page blob in the Cloud Drive.

How do i get the VM to see the 1TB drive? How do i mount the drive since in my VM role there was no programming pages?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello, please refer to Azure Trainning Course about how to work with Drives:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg271295

And download the source code from Training kit:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8396