In summary, what have we learned?
What are we walking away from in this lesson?
I hope you agree with me that AFS represents a great way for a business to
evolve past DFS into a true hybrid cloud hybrid storage solution.
If nothing else, it's a nice entry point into cloud storage for your business.
You also could look at AFS as a way to help you or accelerate
your journey in a lift and shift scenario.
Many businesses will do a lift and shift where your workload or
your application is running on local VMs,
and you migrate them into a virtual network and basically have them
run in the cloud the way that they did on‑prem,
that's a perfectly valid way to perform an application migration.
You can do that using AFS and the file share service in
storage accounts to preserve things like those drive
mappings in your Azure virtual machines.
You might also want to consider using AFS as a way to eventually
decommission some of your local file servers.
This is particularly useful if you do have the benefit of a hybrid
connectivity like site‑to‑site VPN or ExpressRoute because you can do a direct
mount of Azure files file shares in your storage accounts,
and then have your servers and clients communicate with those cloud‑based file
shares using native file share protocols like NFS and SMB.
I'll leave you with a question.
Alright, Tim,
you mentioned some stuff here about monitoring there at the tail end.
Specifically, how can I monitor and meter my AFS performance and effectiveness?
I need to give a report to my boss or maybe I need to
try to justify this to my team.
Another question is,
you caught my attention with this migration from AFS from DFS‑R,
specifically, how do I go about doing that?
Well, you know, I'm leading you, again.
I'll see you in the next module, and we'll cover both of those questions.
The module is entitled Manage Azure File Sync.
Thank you. I'll see you then.