When enabled on an Azure File Sync server endpoint, rarely opened files move up to the cloud share, while the server keeps a local cache of those used often.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure File Sync
Agent installed on Windows Server on premises that keeps a local cache of an Azure file share, syncing changes both ways and tiering cold files to the cloud.
- Server endpoint
In Azure File Sync, a folder on a registered Windows Server; its sync group keeps it matched with the cloud endpoint, and cloud tiering can be turned on for it.
- Share
In OpenSharing, the container you fill with tables, views, volumes, models and notebooks for recipients. You need
CREATE SHAREon the metastore to make one; add a schema and all its assets, including later ones, go with history. - LSDOU
The sequence in which Group Policy is processed: the local policy first, followed by site, domain and organisational unit policies. The nearest, last-processed setting takes effect unless Enforced or Block Inheritance alters that.
Related terms
- Volume free space policy
Maintains a chosen percentage of free space on a volume with Azure File Sync by moving the files used least recently out to Azure through cloud tiering.