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AZ-305 · Question #398

You have a network-attached storage device that hosts a file share. The share contains 1 TB of JSON files. You have an Azure subscription that contains a storage account named storage1. storage1 has…

The correct answer is B. Azure Storage Mover. Azure Storage Mover is a fully managed, hybrid migration service designed to move on-premises file shares to Azure Blob Storage and Azure Files. It simplifies the process of migrating large volumes of data by automating the transfer and supporting various source types. You can…

Submitted by carter_n· Mar 6, 2026Design infrastructure solutions

Question

You have a network-attached storage device that hosts a file share. The share contains 1 TB of JSON files. You have an Azure subscription that contains a storage account named storage1. storage1 has hierarchical namespace enabled. You need to recommend a solution to migrate the files to storage1. What should you include in the recommendation?

Options

  • AAzCopy
  • BAzure Storage Mover
  • CRobocopy
  • DAzure File Sync

How the community answered

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  • A
    7% (3)
  • B
    75% (33)
  • C
    5% (2)
  • D
    14% (6)

Explanation

Azure Storage Mover is a fully managed, hybrid migration service designed to move on-premises file shares to Azure Blob Storage and Azure Files. It simplifies the process of migrating large volumes of data by automating the transfer and supporting various source types. You can use Storage Mover for different migration scenarios such as lift-and-shift, and for migrations that you have to repeat regularly. Azure Storage Mover also helps maintain oversight and manage the migration of all your globally distributed file shares from a single storage mover Supported sources and targets The current Azure Storage Mover release supports full-fidelity migrations for specific source- target pair combinations. Always utilize the latest agent version to benefit from these supported sources and destinations: Azure file share (SMB) SMB 1.x sources and NFS Azure file shares are currently not supported. *-> NFS 3 & 4 mount Azure blob storage container Containers with the "Hierarchical Namespace Service (HNS)" feature enabled, are supported and the ADLS Gen2 REST API set is used for migration. https://docs.azure.cn/en-us/storage/common/storage-ref-azcopy-sync https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage-mover/service-overview

Topics

#Azure Storage Mover#Data Lake Storage Gen2#NAS migration#hierarchical namespace

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