Azure Storage Explorer helps you upload, download, and manage the data you store in Azure Storage. This month we released version v1.18.0 which includes the following new capabilities: Decrease startup and load time of Storage Explorer. New connection flow to make it easier to specify the type of resource. Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer is a standalone app that makes it easy to work with Azure Storage data on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The app can connect to storage accounts hosted on Azure, national clouds, and Azure Stack. This guide summarizes solutions for issues that are commonly seen in Storage Explorer. Azure RBAC permissions issues.
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Storage Explorer 1.10.0 enables users to upload, download, and copy managed disks, as well as create snapshots. Because of these additional capabilities, you can use Storage Explorer to migrate data from on-premises to Azure, and migrate data across Azure regions.
Prerequisites
To complete this article, you'll need the following:
- An Azure subscription
- One or more Azure managed disks
- The latest version of Azure Storage Explorer
Connect to an Azure subscription
If your Storage Explorer isn't connected to Azure, you will not be able to use it to manage resources. This section goes over connecting it to your Azure account so that you can manage resources using Storage Explorer.
Launch Azure Storage Explorer and click the plug-in icon on the left.
Select Add an Azure Account, and then click Next.
In the Azure Sign in dialog box, enter your Azure credentials.
Select your subscription from the list and then click Apply.
Upload a managed disk from an on-prem VHD
On the left pane, expand Disks and select the resource group that you want to upload your disk to.
Select Upload.
In Upload VHD specify your source VHD, the name of the disk, the OS type, the region you want to upload the disk to, as well as the account type. In some regions Availability zones are supported, for those regions you can select a zone of your choice.
Select Create to begin uploading your disk.
The status of the upload will now display in Activities.
If the upload has finished and you don't see the disk in the right pane, select Refresh.
Download a managed disk
The following steps explain how to download a managed disk to an on-prem VHD. A disk's state must be Unattached in order to be downloaded, you cannot download an Attached disk.
On the left pane, if it isn't already expanded, expand Disks and select the resource group that you want to download your disk from.
On the right pane, select the disk you want to download.
Select Download and then choose where you would like to save the disk.
Select Save and your disk will begin downloading. The status of the download will display in Activities.
Copy a managed disk
With Storage Explorer, you can copy a manged disk within or across regions. To copy a disk:
From the Disks dropdown on the left, select the resource group that contains the disk you want to copy.
On the right pane, select the disk you'd like to copy and select Copy.
On the left pane, select the resource group you'd like to paste the disk in.
Select Paste on the right pane.
In the Paste Disk dialog, fill in the values. You can also specify an Availability zone in supported regions.
Select Paste and your disk will begin copying, the status is displayed in Activities.
Create a snapshot
From the Disks dropdown on the left, select the resource group that contains the disk you want to snapshot.
On the right, select the disk you'd like to snapshot and select Create Snapshot.
In Create Snapshot, specify the name of the snapshot as well as the resource group you want to create it in. Then select Create.
Once the snapshot has been created, you can select Open in Portal in Activities to view the snapshot in the Azure portal.
Next steps
Learn how to Create a VM from a VHD by using the Azure portal.
Learn how to Attach a managed data disk to a Windows VM by using the Azure portal.
-->In this quickstart, you learn how to use Azure Storage Explorer to create a container and a blob. Next, you learn how to download the blob to your local computer, and how to view all of the blobs in a container. You also learn how to create a snapshot of a blob, manage container access policies, and create a shared access signature.
Prerequisites
To access Azure Storage, you'll need an Azure subscription. If you don't already have a subscription, create a free account before you begin.
All access to Azure Storage takes place through a storage account. For this quickstart, create a storage account using the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI. For help creating a storage account, see Create a storage account.
This quickstart requires that you install Azure Storage Explorer. To install Azure Storage Explorer for Windows, Macintosh, or Linux, see Azure Storage Explorer.
Log in to Storage Explorer
On first launch, the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer - Connect window is shown. Storage Explorer provides several ways to connect to storage accounts. The following table lists the different ways you can connect:
| Task | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Add an Azure Account | Redirects you to your organization's sign-in page to authenticate you to Azure. |
| Use a connection string or shared access signature URI | Can be used to directly access a container or storage account with a SAS token or a shared connection string. |
| Use a storage account name and key | Use the storage account name and key of your storage account to connect to Azure storage. |
Select Add an Azure Account and click Sign in... Follow the on-screen prompts to sign into your Azure account.
When it completes connecting, Azure Storage Explorer loads with the Explorer tab shown. This view gives you insight to all of your Azure storage accounts as well as local storage configured through the Azurite storage emulator, Cosmos DB accounts, or Azure Stack environments.
Create a container
Blobs are always uploaded into a container. This allows you to organize groups of blobs like you organize your files on your computer in folders.
To create a container, expand the storage account you created in the proceeding step. Select Blob Containers, right-click and select Create Blob Container. Enter the name for your blob container. See the Create a container section for a list of rules and restrictions on naming blob containers. When complete, press Enter to create the blob container. Once the blob container has been successfully created, it is displayed under the Blob Containers folder for the selected storage account.
Upload blobs to the container
Blob storage supports block blobs, append blobs, and page blobs. VHD files used to back IaaS VMs are page blobs. Append blobs are used for logging, such as when you want to write to a file and then keep adding more information. Most files stored in Blob storage are block blobs.
On the container ribbon, select Upload. This operation gives you the option to upload a folder or a file.
Choose the files or folder to upload. Select the blob type. Acceptable choices are Append, Page, or Block blob.
If uploading a .vhd or .vhdx file, choose Upload .vhd/.vhdx files as page blobs (recommended).
In the Upload to folder (optional) field either a folder name to store the files or folders in a folder under the container. If no folder is chosen, the files are uploaded directly under the container.
When you select OK, the files selected are queued to upload, each file is uploaded. When the upload is complete, the results are shown in the Activities window.
View blobs in a container
In the Azure Storage Explorer application, select a container under a storage account. The main pane shows a list of the blobs in the selected container.
Download blobs
To download blobs using Azure Storage Explorer, with a blob selected, select Download from the ribbon. A file dialog opens and provides you the ability to enter a file name. Select Save to start the download of a blob to the local location.
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Manage snapshots
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Azure Storage Explorer provides the capability to take and manage snapshots of your blobs. To take a snapshot of a blob, right-click the blob and select Create Snapshot. To view snapshots for a blob, right-click the blob and select Manage Snapshots. A list of the snapshots for the blob are shown in the current tab.
Manage access policies
Storage Explorer provides the ability to manage access policies for containers within its user interface. There are two types of secure access policies (SAS), service level and account level. Account level SAS targets the storage account and can apply to multiple services and resources. Service level SAS are defined on a resource under a particular service. To generate a service level SAS, right-click any container and select Manage Access Policies.... To generate an account level SAS, right-click on the storage account.
Select Add to add a new access policy and define the permissions for the policy. When complete select Save to save the access policy. This policy is now available for use when configuring a Shared Access Signature.
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Work with Shared Access Signatures
Shared Access Signatures (SAS) can be retrieved through Storage Explorer. Right-click a storage account, container, or blob and choose Get Shared Access Signature.... Choose the start and expiry time, and permissions for the SAS URL and select Create. The full URL with the query string as well as the query string by itself are provided and can be copied from the next screen.
Next steps
In this quickstart, you learned how to transfer files between a local disk and Azure Blob storage using Azure Storage Explorer. To learn more about working with Blob storage, continue to the Blob storage How-to.