Create a storage account to use with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
To use Data Lake Storage Gen2 capabilities, create a storage account that has a hierarchical namespace.
Choose a storage account type
Data Lake Storage capabilities are supported in the following types of storage accounts:
- General-purpose v2
- BlockBlobStorage
For information about how to choose between them, see storage account overview.
Create a storage account with a hierarchical namespace
Create either a general-purpose V2 account or a BlockBlobStorage account with the Hierarchical namespace setting enabled.
Unlock Data Lake Storage capabilities when you create the account by enabling the Hierarchical namespace setting in the Advanced tab of the Create storage account page. You must enable this setting when you create the account. You can't enable it afterwards.
The following image shows this setting in the Create storage account page.
If you have an existing storage account that you want to use with Data Lake Storage and the hierarchical namespace setting is disabled, you must migrate the data to a new storage account that has the setting enabled.
Note
Data protection and Hierarchical namespace can't be enabled simultaneously.