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hpcpack mount
Updated: May 15, 2013
Applies To: Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2, Microsoft HPC Pack 2012
Mounts a VHD file as a drive on a Windows Azure node, or lists all currently mounted drives on that node.
The VHD is loaded from a Windows Azure storage account, and you can specify the account using the Windows Azure storage account name and its storage key or Shared Access Signature (SAS) token.
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| This subcommand supports mounting a VHD to Windows Azure worker nodes starting with HPC Pack 2008 R2 with Service Pack 4 (SP4) and is not supported in previous versions. |
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| The VHD that you mount must be of fixed size. It cannot be dynamically sized, which is the default. |
hpcpack mount <VHDname> /account:<storageAccountName> (/key:<storageKey>|/sas:<sasToken>)
[/container:<containerName>] [/force|/snapshot]
hpcpack mount /list
hpcpack mount {/? | /help}
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<VHDname > |
Specifies the name of the VHD file that you want to mount from the Windows Azure storage account. For example: myDrive.vhd. |
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/account |
Specifies the public name of the Windows Azure storage account (the same storage name that you specify in the Windows Azure Node Template). This is the value of <storageAccountName> in the public URL of the account: http:// <storageAccountName>.blob.core.windows.net. If you specify /account, you must also specify /key. |
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/key |
Specifies the access key for the Windows Azure storage account. If you specify /key, you must also specify /account. |
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/container |
Specifies the name of the container in the Windows Azure storage account that contains the VHD file. |
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/force |
Force mounts a VHD that is already mounted on another instance. |
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/sas |
Specifies a Shared Access Signature (SAS) token.
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/snapshot |
Mounts a snapshot of the specified VHD. This will mount the drive as read-only. Changes to the VHD in the storage account will not be visible to the Windows Azure node until the drive in unmounted and then mounted again. |
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/list |
Lists all of the currently mounted drives on the Windows Azure node. |
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/? |
Displays Help at the command prompt. |
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/help |
Displays Help at the command prompt. |
To mount a read-only snapshot of myVHD.vhd from the specified storage account and container to the Windows Azure node:
hpcPack mount myVHD.vhd /account:accountName /key:storageKey /container:myVHDs /snapshot
To list the currently mounted drives on the Windows Azure node:
hpcPack mount /list
