Powershell commands for Mounting a File Share

To access the share within a VM, you mount it to your VM. You can mount a share to a VM so that the file share is available indefinitely to the VM, regardless of restarts.

a- To make the Storage Account credentials available across VM restarts, add them to the Windows Credential Manager:

cmdkey /add:<Storage-AccountName>.file.core.windows.net /user:<StorageAccountName> /pass:<StorageAccountKey>

b- Mount the file share using the Stored Credentials: Generally drive Z is used

net use z: \\ <Storage-AccountName>.file.core.windows.net\<ShareName>

c-To ensure a persistent file share that will survive any VM restart:

net use z: \\ <Storage-AccountName>.file.core.windows.net\<ShareName> /Persistent: YES

d- To verify that the network share was added or continues to exist:

net use

Drive Z will shows 5TB drive mounted in Windows Explorer.