Using the Azure Drive simulation in thedevelopment environment
The virtual hard disk (VHD) used with Azure Drive is a fixed hard disk image formatted as a single NTFS volume. A VHD has a data portion followed by a 512-byte footer. The minimum size for the data portion of the VHD is 16 MB. The maximum size for the entire VHD is 1 TB.
A VHD used as the backing page blob for an Azure Drive can be created on a local system, filled with data, and then uploaded as a page blob to the Windows Azure Blob Service. The Windows Azure development fabric provides an Azure Drive simulation, so that Windows Azure roles using an Azure Drive can be developed and tested. The Azure Drive simulation is implemented independently of the Storage Emulator and consequently does not use VHD page blobs as the backing store for an Azure Drive. Instead, an Azure Drive is backed by an empty directory into which the VHD is mounted, and the subst command is used to associate a drive letter with the directory.
The Disk Management...
