Azure Data Box Disk system requirements

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Caution

This article references CentOS, a Linux distribution that is End Of Life (EOL) status. Please consider your use and planning accordingly. For more information, see the CentOS End Of Life guidance.

This article describes the important system requirements for your Microsoft Azure Data Box Disk solution and for the clients connecting to the Data Box Disk. We recommend that you review the information carefully before you deploy your Data Box Disk, and then refer back to it as necessary during the deployment and subsequent operation.

The system requirements include the supported platforms for clients connecting to disks, supported storage accounts, and storage types.

Review prerequisites

  1. You must have ordered your Data Box Disk using the Tutorial: Order your Azure Data Box Disk. You have received your disks and one connecting cable per disk.

  2. You have a client computer available from which you can copy the data. Your client computer must:

    • Run a supported operating system.
    • Have any additional required software installed.

Supported operating systems for clients

The following tables contain a list of the supported operating systems for disk unlock and data copy operations for use on clients connected to Data Box Disks.

The following supported operating systems can be used with hardware encrypted Data Box Disks.

Operating system Tested versions
Windows Server* 2022
Windows (64-bit)* 10, 11
Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • Debian
  • CentOS
    		•
    22
    9
    9

    *Data copy operations are only supported on Linux-based hosts when using hardware-encrypted disks. Windows-based machines can be used for data validation only.

    Other required software for Windows clients

    For Windows client, following should also be installed.

    Software Version
    Windows PowerShell 5.0
    .NET Framework 4.5.1
    Windows Management Framework 5.1
    BitLocker -

    Other required software for Linux clients

    For Linux client, the Data Box Disk toolset installs the following required software:

    • dislocker
    • OpenSSL

    The following additional software is required.

    Hardware encrypted disks Software encrypted disks
    NTFS-3g
  • Sedutil-cli
  • Exfat utils
    		•

    Supported connection

    Hardware encrypted disks Software encrypted disks
    SATA 3
    All other connections are unsupported    		 USB 3.0 or later

    Supported storage accounts

    Note

    Classic storage accounts are not supported beginning August 1, 2023.

    The following table contains supported storage types for Data Box Disks.

    Storage account Supported access tiers
    Classic Standard
    General-purpose v1 Standard Hot, Cool
    General-purpose v1 Premium
    General-purpose v2 Standard* Hot, Cool
    General-purpose v2 Premium
    Blob storage account
    Block Blob storage Premium

    * Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) is supported.

    Important

    Network File System (NFS) 3.0 protocol support in Azure Blob storage is not supported with Data Box Disk.

    Supported storage types for upload

    Here is a list of the storage types supported for uploaded to Azure using Data Box Disk.

    File format Notes
    Azure block blob
    Azure page blob
    Azure Files
    Managed Disks

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