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name: azure-hpc-cache
- description: Expert knowledge for Azure Hpc Cache development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when building, debugging, or optimizing Azure Hpc Cache applications.
+ description: Expert knowledge for Azure HPC Cache development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when building, debugging, or optimizing Azure HPC Cache applications.
compatibility: Requires network access. Uses mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch or fetch_webpage to retrieve documentation.
metadata:
- generated_at: "2026-02-04"
+ generated_at: "2026-02-28"
generator: "docs2skills/1.0.0"
---
- # Azure Hpc Cache Skill
+ # Azure HPC Cache Skill
- This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Hpc Cache. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.
+ This skill provides expert guidance for Azure HPC Cache. 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**: This file may be large. Use the **Category Index** below to locate relevant sections, then use `read_file` with specific line ranges (e.g., `L136-L144`) to read the sections needed for the user's question
> **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](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/mcp/blob/main/README.md)
This skill requires **network access**. Use `mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch` or `fetch_webpage` if MCP is unavailable to fetch documentation.
## Category Index
| Category | Lines | Description |
|----------|-------|-------------|
- | Troubleshooting | L34-L39 | Diagnosing and resolving Azure HPC Cache target issues, including Blob firewall access problems and NFS storage target creation and configuration errors. |
- | Best Practices | L40-L46 | Best practices for moving and pre-loading data into Azure HPC Cache (Blob, ADLS-NFS), including performance tuning, usage limits, and strategies to optimize cache warm-up and throughput. |
- | Decision Making | L47-L51 | Guidance on when Azure HPC Cache is appropriate, evaluating workloads, performance patterns, data sources, and scenarios where it improves throughput or isn’t a good fit. |
- | Architecture & Design Patterns | L52-L59 | Designing Azure HPC Cache architectures: choosing cache/usage models, DNS-based client load balancing, aggregated namespace layouts, and regional redundancy/failover strategies. |
- | Security | L60-L66 | Client access control, encryption with customer-managed keys, and overall security configuration options and best practices for Azure HPC Cache |
- | Configuration | L67-L79 | Configuring and operating Azure HPC Cache: CLI setup, networking/DNS/NTP, directory services, namespace paths, storage targets, lifecycle/space management, monitoring, and updates. |
- | Integrations & Coding Patterns | L80-L89 | Using HPC Cache with NFS and Azure NetApp Files, mounting clients, and data ingest/write-back tools (flush_file, manual copy, msrsync, parallelcp) for performance-optimized workflows. |
- | Deployment | L90-L94 | Checking environment and networking prerequisites for Azure HPC Cache, and how to recreate, move, or migrate cache workloads across regions. |
+ | Troubleshooting | L35-L40 | Diagnosing and resolving Azure HPC Cache issues with Blob storage firewalls and NFS storage targets, including connectivity, access, and configuration problems. |
+ | Best Practices | L41-L49 | Guidance on optimizing Azure HPC Cache: client load balancing, efficient data movement and manual copy to Blob targets, NFS-on-Blob considerations, and priming caches for better hit rates. |
+ | Decision Making | L50-L55 | Guidance on when Azure HPC Cache is appropriate, comparing usage models, workload patterns, performance needs, and deciding if/when to adopt it for your architecture. |
+ | Architecture & Design Patterns | L56-L61 | Designing Azure HPC Cache namespaces across multiple back-end storage systems, and planning regional redundancy, high availability, and failover strategies for cached workloads. |
+ | Limits & Quotas | L62-L66 | How to request and manage Azure HPC Cache quota increases, including limits on cache instances, capacities, and the support process for raising quotas. |
+ | Security | L67-L74 | Configuring HPC Cache security: client access policies, directory/AD integration and extended groups, customer-managed encryption keys, and overall cache security settings. |
+ | Configuration | L75-L88 | Configuring and operating Azure HPC Cache: CLI setup, networking/DNS/NTP, storage targets and namespaces, mounting NFS clients, lifecycle management, metrics, and environment prerequisites. |
+ | Integrations & Coding Patterns | L89-L96 | Scripts and patterns for ingesting data (msrsync, parallelcp), controlling write-back with flush_file.py, and integrating Azure HPC Cache with Azure NetApp Files. |
+ | Deployment | L97-L101 | Creating Azure HPC Cache instances via portal/CLI, and recreating or moving existing caches to a different region while preserving configuration and data paths |
### Troubleshooting
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
- | Work around Azure Blob firewall issues for HPC Cache targets | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-blob-firewall-fix |
- | Troubleshoot NFS storage target creation in Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/troubleshoot-nas |
+ | Work around Blob firewall issues for HPC Cache targets | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-blob-firewall-fix |
+ | Troubleshoot NFS storage target issues in Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/troubleshoot-nas |
### Best Practices
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
+ | Load balance client connections across Azure HPC Cache IPs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/client-load-balancing |
| Optimize data movement to Azure HPC Cache Blob targets | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-ingest |
- | Apply usage strategies and limits for ADLS-NFS with Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/nfs-blob-considerations |
- | Prime and pre-load data into Azure HPC Cache for performance | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/prime-cache |
+ | Manually copy data into Azure HPC Cache Blob targets | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-ingest-manual |
+ | Apply NFS Blob storage considerations with Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/nfs-blob-considerations |
+ | Prime Azure HPC Cache to improve cache hit rates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/prime-cache |
### Decision Making
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
+ | Choose Azure HPC Cache usage models | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/cache-usage-models |
| Decide when Azure HPC Cache fits your workload | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/usage-scenarios |
### Architecture & Design Patterns
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
- | Choose Azure HPC Cache usage and caching models | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/cache-usage-models |
- | Design DNS-based client load balancing for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/client-load-balancing |
- | Design Azure HPC Cache aggregated namespace layout | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-namespace |
+ | Design Azure HPC Cache aggregated namespaces | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-namespace |
| Design regional redundancy and failover for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-region-recovery |
+ ### Limits & Quotas
+ | Topic | URL |
+ |-------|-----|
+ | Request Azure HPC Cache quota increases | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/increase-quota |
+
### Security
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
- | Define and apply client access policies in HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/access-policies |
+ | Define client access policies for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/access-policies |
| Configure customer-managed encryption keys for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/customer-keys |
+ | Configure directory services and extended groups for HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/directory-services |
| Understand security configuration for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-security-info |
### Configuration
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
| Set up Azure HPC Cache namespace paths | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/add-namespace-paths |
- | Prepare Azure CLI environment for managing Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/az-cli-prerequisites |
+ | Prepare Azure CLI environment for managing HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/az-cli-prerequisites |
| Configure networking, NTP, DNS, and snapshots for HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/configuration |
- | Configure directory services and extended groups for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/directory-services |
- | Configure Azure HPC Cache storage targets | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-add-storage |
+ | Configure storage targets for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-add-storage |
| Modify Azure HPC Cache storage target settings | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-edit-storage |
| Operate and update Azure HPC Cache instances | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-manage |
- | Manage lifecycle and space allocation of HPC Cache targets | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/manage-storage-targets |
- | Monitor Azure HPC Cache metrics and performance | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/metrics |
+ | Mount Azure HPC Cache on NFS clients | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-mount |
+ | Verify environment prerequisites for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-prerequisites |
+ | Manage Azure HPC Cache storage target lifecycle | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/manage-storage-targets |
+ | Monitor Azure HPC Cache metrics and reports | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/metrics |
### Integrations & Coding Patterns
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
- | Use the flush_file Python utility for Azure HPC Cache write-back control | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/custom-flush-script |
- | Manually copy data to Azure HPC Cache Blob targets | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-ingest-manual |
+ | Use flush_file.py to control HPC Cache write-back | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/custom-flush-script |
| Ingest data to HPC Cache using msrsync | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-ingest-msrsync |
| Use parallelcp script to ingest data for HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-ingest-parallelcp |
- | Mount Azure HPC Cache on NFS clients | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-mount |
| Integrate Azure HPC Cache with Azure NetApp Files | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-netapp |
### Deployment
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
- | Verify environment prerequisites for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-prerequisites |
- | Recreate and move Azure HPC Cache workloads across regions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/move-resource |
+ | Create Azure HPC Cache instances via portal or CLI | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-create |
+ | Recreate or move Azure HPC Cache to another region | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/move-resource |