Wanted to create shortcut for a blob storage

[pratiksha19g]

Hi,

I wanted to create shortcut of azure blob storage in fabric lakehouse but it do not have HNS enabled and this is a client storage so I cannot upgrade it to ADLS Gen2. Is there any other way to create shortcut for it?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @pratiksha19g ,
Thank you @nilendraFabric  and @Vinodh247  for the valuable input!

Yes, As Nilendra and Vinodh mentioned, Fabric requires HNS-enabled storage for shortcuts, meaning direct shortcuts to non-HNS Azure Blob Storage are not supported.

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[Vinodh247]

Since Fabric requires HNS enabled storage for shortcuts, you cannot directly create a shortcut to a non HNS enabled Blob Storage. But there are some alternatives which you can consider, some of them are as below:

• Copy data to an ADLS Gen2 (HNS enabled) storage using ADF
• Access the Blob directly using spark in a fabric notebook (wasbs://)
• Use a proxy ADLSGen2 storage to sync data

[nilendraFabric]

Hello @pratiksha19g 

Fabric does not currently support direct shortcuts to Azure Blob Storage without HNS

The other way is to move data using pipelines.