Question

A media company must migrate 400 TB of archived video files from an on-premises NAS to Azure Blob Storage. The office has a shared 100 Mbps internet connection that is heavily used during business hours, and the migration must complete within three weeks. The company wants to minimize impact on the production network and avoid provisioning additional bandwidth. Which migration approach should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

Order Azure Data Box Heavy, copy the data locally, and ship the appliance to Microsoft for import into Blob Storage.

Answer

Use AzCopy over the existing internet connection to copy the files directly to Blob Storage during off-hours.

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Provision an ExpressRoute circuit and use Azure Storage Explorer to transfer the files over the private connection.

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Deploy Azure File Sync on the NAS server and let cloud tiering gradually upload the archive to an Azure file share.