Use vhdupload to upload vhd files to cloud storage and add azure drive to Azure VM.

1. Upload a vhd file to Azure blob Storage

The source code of the vhdupload program is compiled into vhdupload.exe in the labs \ exploringwindowsazurestoragevs2010 \ source \ assets \ vhdupload.exe directory of the Windows azure Training Kit directory. Then upload

Uploads a virtual hard disk (vhd) file to Windows azure page blob service.

Usage: vhdupload vhdfilepath bloburi accountname accountkey

Vhdfilepath-path to virtual hard disk (vhd) File
Bloburi-destination Page blob relative uri (I. e. Container/blobname)
Accountname-storage account name (use devstorage for storage emulator)
Accountkey-storage account primary key (omit for storage smulator)

The vhdupload upload process is as follows:

2. Self-write command line program Mount drive

The main code is as follows (modify it to the corresponding storage account and storage key and compile it into exe ):

 class Program    {        const string sMainStorageName = "StorageAccountName";        const string sMainStorageKey = "StorageKey";        static void Main(string[] args)        {            string sVHDPathName = string.Empty;            string sOperation = string.Empty;            bool IfUnmount = false;            if (args.Count() == 0)            {                Console.WriteLine("Syntax: MountAzureDrive ContainerName/Disk.VHD");                return;            }            try            {                sVHDPathName = args[0];                if (args.Length > 1)                {                    sOperation = args[1];                    if (args[1] == "/u")                        IfUnmount = true;                }                var cloudDriveBlobPath = string.Format("http://{0}.blob.core.windows.net/{1}", sMainStorageName, sVHDPathName);                StorageCredentialsAccountAndKey credentials = new StorageCredentialsAccountAndKey(sMainStorageName, sMainStorageKey);                // LocalResource localCache = RoleEnvironment.GetLocalResource(sMainLocalStorageName);                //  Char[] backSlash = { '\\' };                //String localCachePath = localCache.RootPath.TrimEnd(backSlash);                //CloudDrive.InitializeCache(localCachePath, localCache.MaximumSizeInMegabytes);                //string cachePath = @"C:\Resources\LocalStorage";   //for VM role                //Console.WriteLine("Local Cache initialized.....{0}", cachePath);                //try                //{                //    CloudDrive.InitializeCache(cachePath, 10);                //}                //catch (Exception e)                //{                //    Console.WriteLine(e.Message);                //}                if (IfUnmount)                {                    Console.WriteLine("UnMount Drive " + cloudDriveBlobPath);                    CloudDrive mountDrive = new CloudDrive(new Uri(cloudDriveBlobPath), credentials);                    Console.WriteLine("Calling Cloud Drive UnMount API....", 0);                    mountDrive.Unmount();                    Console.WriteLine("Finished Cloud Drive UnMount .");                }                else                {                    Console.WriteLine("Mount Drive " + cloudDriveBlobPath);                    CloudDrive mountDrive = new CloudDrive(new Uri(cloudDriveBlobPath), credentials);                    Console.WriteLine("Calling Cloud Drive Mount API....", 0);                    string driveLetter = mountDrive.Mount(0, DriveMountOptions.FixFileSystemErrors | DriveMountOptions.Force);                    Console.WriteLine("Finished Cloud Drive Mounting at Drive :" + driveLetter, 0);                }            }            catch (Exception ex)            {                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);            }        }    }

3. Execute the Mount action in the VM.

Use the preceding command line:

Is the effect after the mount. (Experiment passed in VM role)