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File Vaulting: Configure Windchill File Vaults to Use Azure Blob Storage
Product: Windchill PDMLink
Release: 11.1 M020
Benefit
You can configure Windchill file vaults to use Azure blob storage when Windchill is running on Microsoft Azure virtual machine.
Additional Details
Additional information about configuring file vaults in Windchill to use Azure blob storage is listed below:
Configure Windchill file vaults using the Windchill command line utility to use Azure Blob storage for your managed file data when Windchill is deployed in Microsoft Azure virtual machine.
Customize Windchill to encrypt the content you are saving in Azure blob, by writing delegate implementations.
Migrate your vault data to Azure blob during a general migration to a Microsoft Azure virtual machine.
Use Microsoft Data Box service to transfer large amounts of data to Microsoft Azure blob containers using a Azure Data Box device.
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To take advantage of Azure Blob vaulting capabilities, PTC requires that you install the Windchill main server and file servers on Azure virtual machines. Connection to Azure Blob storage with Windchill running on premises is not supported.
Related Information
For more information about configuring Windchill to use Azure Blob storage, see Configuring Windchill Vaults to Use Azure Blob Storage.
For more information about encryption customization, see Encryption Customization for Azure Blob Mounts.
For more information about migration of content, see Vault Migration to Azure Blob.