I have a legacy application and third party software that both require NTFS volumes to operate. Changing the software would be a last resort.
The requirement is to have a central storage location for media (videos, images, etc) that each computer in a domain can access. The size requirement can be as high at 20 Terabytes.
My proposed solution is to create a domain and one of these computers to act as a simple file server with multiple volumes mounted and accessible from the other computers through DFS (Distributed File System). The reason why DFS is in the picture is we are looking to expand the DFS service to provide redundancy.
Is my proposed solution viable? I am willing to accept that I should be evaluating other storage/hosting solutions other than Azure that will allow me to meet the requirement.
Your best bet might be Windows Azure Virtual machines. In this model, an extra large virtual machine can mount 16 separate 1tb data drives. You’d have to combine multiple virtual machines to reach your 20tb requirements.