Azure Elastic San Agent Skill

Expert knowledge for Azure Elastic SAN development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when provisioning Elastic SAN volumes, AVS datastores, iSCSI clients, snapshots, or CMK-encrypted deployments, and other Azure Elastic SAN related development tasks. Not for Azure Blob Storage (use azure-blob-storage), Azure NetApp Files (use azure-netapp-files), Azure Managed Lustre (use azure-managed-lustre), Azure Container Storage (use azure-container-storage).

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Install

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npx skills add https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-elastic-san

The instruction itself

12 sections, as written by the author

Azure Elastic SAN Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Elastic SAN. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

> IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., security.md), use read_file on the linked reference file

> IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description |

|----------|-------|-------------|

| Troubleshooting | L37-L41 | Diagnosing and resolving common Azure Elastic SAN issues, including provisioning failures, connectivity/IO errors, performance problems, and typical error codes/logs. |

| Best Practices | L42-L48 | Performance tuning, benchmarking, and configuration best practices for Azure Elastic SAN (including AVS datastores) plus guidance on using snapshots for backup. |

| Decision Making | L49-L53 | Guidance on sizing and configuring Elastic SAN (performance, capacity, architecture) and deciding how to integrate it with AKS workloads and storage patterns. |

| Architecture & Design Patterns | L54-L58 | Patterns for running clustered apps (SQL, Failover Cluster, etc.) on Azure Elastic SAN, including shared volume setup, fencing, failover behavior, and high-availability design. |

| Limits & Quotas | L59-L64 | Details on Elastic SAN capacity limits, max IOPS/throughput, and how VM sizes, volume groups, and workloads affect achievable performance and scaling. |

| Security | L65-L74 | Encrypting Elastic SAN with customer-managed keys and securing access via encryption options, private endpoints, service endpoints, and network configuration for volumes. |

| Configuration | L75-L83 | Deploying, resizing, deleting, and monitoring Azure Elastic SAN instances/volumes, plus configuring iSCSI IQN naming and safe operational best practices. |

| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L84-L91 | Creating and benchmarking Elastic SAN volumes, plus step-by-step guidance to connect Linux and Windows clients using iSCSI and optimize performance. |

| Deployment | L92-L95 | Guides for migrating Azure VMware Solution (AVS) datastores to Azure Elastic SAN, including configuring and using multiple private endpoints for secure connectivity. |

Troubleshooting

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Troubleshoot common Azure Elastic SAN issues and errors | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-troubleshoot |

Best Practices

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Optimize Azure Elastic SAN configuration and performance | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-best-practices |

| Optimize Elastic SAN datastore performance on AVS | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-performance-on-azure-vmware-solutions |

| Use snapshots to back up Azure Elastic SAN volumes | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-snapshots |

Decision Making

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Plan Azure Elastic SAN capacity and configuration | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-planning |

Architecture & Design Patterns

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Use clustered applications with shared Azure Elastic SAN volumes | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-shared-volumes |

Limits & Quotas

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Understand Azure Elastic SAN and VM performance limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-performance |

| Azure Elastic SAN capacity, IOPS, and throughput limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-scale-targets |

Security

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Configure customer-managed keys for Azure Elastic SAN | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-configure-customer-managed-keys |

| Configure private endpoints for Azure Elastic SAN volume groups | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-configure-private-endpoints |

| Configure service endpoints for Azure Elastic SAN access | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-configure-service-endpoints |

| Manage customer-managed encryption keys in Elastic SAN | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-encryption-manage-customer-keys |

| Configure encryption options for Azure Elastic SAN | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-encryption-overview |

| Configure secure networking for Azure Elastic SAN volumes | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-networking |

Configuration

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Deploy and configure Azure Elastic SAN resources | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-create |

| Delete Azure Elastic SAN resources correctly | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-delete |

| Resize Azure Elastic SAN resources and volumes safely | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-expand |

| Monitor Azure Elastic SAN with built-in metrics | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-metrics |

| Transition Elastic SAN IQN naming authority | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-transition-iqn-naming-authority |

Integrations & Coding Patterns

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Batch-create Azure Elastic SAN volumes with PowerShell | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-batch-create-sample |

| Benchmark Azure Elastic SAN with DiskSpd and fio | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-benchmarking |

| Connect Linux clients to Azure Elastic SAN volumes | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-connect-linux |

| Connect Windows clients to Azure Elastic SAN volumes | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-connect-windows |

Deployment

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Migrate AVS datastores to Elastic SAN with more private endpoints | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-increase-private-endpoints-azure-vmware-solutions |

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