Tutorial: Verify data upload from Azure Data Box Disk

This is the last tutorial of the series: Deploy Azure Data Box Disk. In this tutorial, you will learn about:

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure that you have completed the Tutorial: Return Azure Data Box Disk.

Verify data upload to Azure

Once the disks are picked up by your carrier, the order status in the portal updates to Picked up. A tracking ID is also displayed.

When Azure receives and scans the disk, job status is updated to Received.

The data automatically gets copied once the disks are connected to a server in the Azure datacenter. Depending upon the data size, the copy operation may take a few hours to days to complete. You can monitor the copy job progress in the portal.

Once the copy is complete, order status updates to Completed. The DATA COPY DETAILS show the path to the copy log, which reports any errors during the data copy.

As of March 2022, you can choose View by Storage Account(s) or View by Managed Disk(s) to display the data copy details.

If you have an order from before March 2022, the data copy details will be shown as below:

If the copy completes with errors, see troubleshoot upload errors.

Verify that your data is in the storage account(s) before you delete it from the source. Your data can be in:

• Your Azure Storage account(s). When you copy the data to Data Box, depending on the type, the data is uploaded to one of the following paths in your Azure Storage account.

  • For block blobs and page blobs: https://<storage_account_name>.blob.core.chinacloudapi.cn/<containername>/files/a.txt

  • For Azure Files: https://<storage_account_name>.file.core.chinacloudapi.cn/<sharename>/files/a.txt

    Alternatively, you can go to your Azure storage account in Azure portal and navigate from there.

• Your managed disk resource group(s). When creating managed disks, the VHDs are uploaded as page blobs and then converted to managed disks. The managed disks are attached to the resource groups specified at the time of order creation.

  • If your copy to managed disks in Azure was successful, you can go to the Order details in the Azure portal and make a note of the resource group specified for managed disks.

    

    Go to the noted resource group, and locate your managed disks.

    

    Note

    If a page blob isn't successfully converted to a managed disk during a data copy, it stays in the storage account and you're charged for storage.

  • If you copied a VHDX, or a dynamic/differencing VHD, then the VHDX/VHD is uploaded to the staging storage account as a block blob. Go to your staging Storage account > Blobs and then select the appropriate container - StandardSSD, StandardHDD, or PremiumSSD. The VHDX/VHDs should show up as block blobs in your staging storage account.

Verify data upload to Azure

After the data is uploaded to Azure, verify that your data is in the storage account(s) before you delete it from the source. Your data can be in:

• Your Azure Storage account(s). When you copy the data to Data Box, depending on the type, the data is uploaded to one of the following paths in your Azure Storage account.

  • For block blobs and page blobs: https://<storage_account_name>.blob.core.chinacloudapi.cn/<containername>/files/a.txt

  • For Azure Files: https://<storage_account_name>.file.core.chinacloudapi.cn/<sharename>/files/a.txt

• Your managed disk resource group(s). When creating managed disks, the VHDs are uploaded as page blobs and then converted to managed disks. The managed disks are attached to the resource groups specified at the time of order creation.

Next steps

In this tutorial, you learned about Azure Data Box Disk topics such as:

Advance to the next how-to to learn how to manage Data Box Disk via the Azure portal.