Agent-Skills azure-site-recovery
Expert knowledge for Azure Site Recovery development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when planning ASR for VMware/Hyper‑V, configuring Recovery Services vaults, scripting with PowerShell/Bicep, or securing DR traffic, and other Azure Site Recovery related development tasks. Not for Azure Backup (use azure-backup), Azure Migrate (use azure-migrate), Azure Virtual Machines (use azure-virtual-machines), Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (use azure-vm-scalesets).
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skills/azure-site-recovery/SKILL.mdAzure Site Recovery Skill
This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Site Recovery. 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.,
), useL35-L120with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g.,read_file), use[security.md](security.md)on the linked reference fileread_file
IMPORTANT for Agent: If
is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. Ifmetadata.generated_attools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guidemcp_microsoftdocs
This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:
- Preferred: Use
with query stringmcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch
. Returns Markdown.from=learn-agent-skill - Fallback: Use
with query stringfetch_webpage
. Returns Markdown.from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown
Category Index
| Category | Lines | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Troubleshooting | L37-L65 | Diagnosing and fixing Azure Site Recovery replication, failover, agent/extension, network, and appliance issues for Azure VMs, Hyper-V, VMware, and physical servers. |
| Best Practices | L66-L71 | Guidance on tuning Azure Site Recovery performance: analyzing high data churn on VMs, and monitoring/troubleshooting process server health, capacity, and throughput. |
| Decision Making | L72-L89 | Planning and sizing Azure Site Recovery: choosing tools vs Azure Migrate, VMware/Hyper-V DR capacity and cost estimation, managed disk pricing, failover/failback options, and classic-to-modern migration. |
| Architecture & Design Patterns | L90-L99 | Designing Azure Site Recovery architectures for specific workloads (AD/DNS, SAP, Dynamics AX, SharePoint, IIS, SQL, VMware, file servers) and multi-tier app DR patterns. |
| Limits & Quotas | L100-L114 | Limits, capacity planning, and support matrices for Azure Site Recovery (Azure VMs, Hyper-V, VMware/physical), including churn limits, shared disks, appliances, and Mobility service usage. |
| Security | L115-L125 | Securing Azure Site Recovery: NSGs, TLS, encryption changes, RBAC, managed identities, and hardening replication appliances/VMware replication traffic. |
| Configuration | L126-L188 | Configuring Azure Site Recovery for Azure, VMware, Hyper‑V, and physical servers: setup, networking, encryption, appliances, policies, replication settings, and DR/failback behavior. |
| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L189-L201 | Scripts and templates for automating ASR: PowerShell for Hyper‑V/shared disks, ExpressRoute/Traffic Manager integration, and Bicep/ARM/Terraform to deploy Recovery Services vaults. |
| Deployment | L202-L205 | Guidance for moving VMware disaster recovery setups from classic Azure Site Recovery to the modernized architecture, including migration steps, prerequisites, and configuration changes. |
Troubleshooting
Best Practices
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Analyze and mitigate high churn patterns on Site Recovery VMs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/monitoring-high-churn |
| Monitor Azure Site Recovery process server health and performance | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/vmware-physical-azure-monitor-process-server |
Decision Making
Architecture & Design Patterns
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Protect on-premises file servers with Site Recovery | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/file-server-disaster-recovery |
| Design Dynamics AX disaster recovery using Site Recovery | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-dynamicsax |
| Configure IIS web app disaster recovery with Site Recovery | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-iis |
| Set up SAP NetWeaver disaster recovery on Azure | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-sap |
| Implement DR for multi-tier SharePoint with Site Recovery | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-sharepoint |
| Combine SQL Server BCDR with Azure Site Recovery | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-sql |
Limits & Quotas
Security
Configuration
Integrations & Coding Patterns
Deployment
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Migrate VMware disaster recovery from classic to modernized | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/how-to-move-from-classic-to-modernized-vmware-disaster-recovery |