Select-AzureSubscription “yoursubscription” To avoid a lot of manual work you can use powershell to open a range of ports: This way FTP traffic will always be routed to the the right server. You open a specific range of Passive FTP Ports on the first VM, and another specific range of ports on the second server.

(You could use the Public Instance IP (PIP), but then your Windows Explorer clients will not be able to connect.) I was not able to find any solution for this on the internet, but following did the trick. Now here is where the magic happens to enable passive FTP. Traffic will be routed through the Azure Load Balancer.Two Virtual Machines, working as AD, DFS and FTP server.You need some experience with the Azure platform and Windows Server, I will help you putting the pieces together for a High Available FTP Server running on the Azure platform. This post does not consists of a step by step guide showing you how to create a VNET, VM’s, DFS,… The main benefit of FileZilla is it’s easy installation and configuration.įollowing posts will guide you while creating a singlebox server using FileZilla:Īzure Virtual machines need maintenance from time to time, you should always avoid a single point of failure,… Enough reasons for a High Available configuration.

There are a lot of posts available learning you how to create a singlebox FTP server on Microsoft Azure, using FileZilla Server or Internet Information Services… About a year ago, at the announcement of the general Availability of Infrastructure as a Service I tested a singlebox FTP server using FileZilla Server.

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