How to create Storage Account with kind "StorageV1"

Question

Hi Team,

I would appreciate it if you could outline the steps for creating an account designated as "StorageV1."

At present, the default setup for storage accounts appears to be "StorageV2," but I am specifically interested in establishing a "StorageV1" account.

Thank you for your assistance.

Thanks

Ram Ch

Answer 1

@Ram Kumar Cheekoti Thanks for posting your query on Microsoft Q&A.

Unfortunately, General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts can no longer be created from the Azure portal. If you need to create a GPv1 storage account, follow the steps in the Create a storage account using PowerShell, the Azure CLI, Bicep, or Azure Templates. For the kind parameter, specify Storage, and choose a sku or SkuName from the table of supported values.

Note: Microsoft will continue to provide security updates for general-purpose v1 accounts, but no new feature development is expected for this account type.
For new Azure regions that have come online after October 1, 2020, pricing for general-purpose v1 accounts has changed and is equivalent to pricing for general-purpose v2 accounts in those regions. Pricing for general-purpose v1 accounts in Azure regions that existed prior to October 1, 2020, has not changed. For pricing details for general-purpose v1 accounts in a specific region, see the Azure Storage pricing page. Choose your region, and then next to Pricing offers, select Other.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-account-create?tabs=azure-portal#create-a-general-purpose-v1-storage-account

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Answer 2

Ram Kumar Cheekoti •

For your follow up question - Can you also let me know what parameter to be chosen en in creating storage account command to choose replication type such as ZRS, LRS or GRS. I do not find these in the documentation.

When creating a General-purpose v1 (GPv1) storage account using PowerShell, you can specify the replication type using the -SkuName parameter. Here are the options you can use:

• Locally Redundant Storage (LRS): Standard_LRS
• Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS): Standard_GRS
• Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS): Standard_RAGRS

Unfortunately, GPv1 storage accounts do not support Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS). If you need ZRS, you will need to use a General-purpose v2 (GPv2) storage account.

Here is an example of how you can create a GPv1 storage account with GRS replication:

New-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName "YourResourceGroupName" -Name "YourStorageAccountName" -Location "YourLocation" -SkuName "Standard_GRS" -Kind "Storage"