azure VHD 1TB uploading

Question

We have very slow connection and very small hard disk, How can I create 1 TB VHD for cloud drive on azure?

Answer 1

Do you need to upload an existing VHD or you just need a 1 TB Azure drive for your application in the cloud? If it is former, Rinat is probably right. Look at this blog post for how to write a console app: blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/04/11/using-windows-azure-page-blobs-and-how-to-efficiently-upload-and-download-page-blobs.aspx.

However if you just need 1 TB Azure drive for your application, you can just create one using your code running in the cloud. You can write code similar to what I have written below:

string pageBlobName = "testpageblob";// Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

string blobUri = string.Format("{0}/{1}", blobContainer.Uri.AbsoluteUri, 
    pageBlobName);

CloudDrive cloudDrive = new CloudDrive(new Uri(blobUri), csa.Credentials);

for (int i = 0; i < 30; i++)
{
    try
    {
        cloudDrive.Create(20);

        break;
    }
    catch (CloudDriveException ex)
    {

        if (!ex.Message.Equals("ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_OS") || i == 29)
            throw;

        Thread.Sleep(10000);
    }
}


string driveLetter = cloudDrive.Mount(25, DriveMountOptions.Force);