Let’s mash up some old tech with some new, shake it up and watch what happens. The plan here is to have a Windows server in a domain act as an SFTP server, the data flow will hit a SMB share on a Pure Storage FlashBlade. Why would one do this, because why not.
AI Generated: FlashBlade SMB Share with SFTP.
Let’s start with my lab and what I worked with:
- Hardware
- Pure Storage FlashBlade
- 2x Windows 2019 Servers
- Software
- Windows Server OS connected AD
- Tectia SSH Client
- OpenSSH
I wouldn’t be a good SE if I didn’t whiteboard the solution, in the digital age, we have to use the tools we have to enhance our presentations. Don’t judge! 🧐
First thing I want to show you is my SMB share on the FlashBlade, here I created an SMB share, I added to export policy. Note: For SMB the FlashBlade is already connected to my labs Active Directory.
Now that I have an SMB share that is exported, let’s go to Windows Server we plan to use as our SFTP server. This server should be connected to AD already. I created a symlink in my user directory.
mklink /D C:\Users\jhigley\flashblade1 \\flashblade-dataVIP\jh-smb-tectia
Now I just setup an “openssh” server on my windows server and started the service. From the remote windows server (this one is not connected to AD, but could be) I logged in and installed the tectia ssh/sftp client. See it in action.
This wasn’t a hard setup, but wanted to validate everything here played nice with active directory and the FlashBlade.
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