Microsoft NetApp

Name: Microsoft NetApp API
Brand: Microsoft NetApp
Availability: InStock

★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentStorageObject Storageoauth224 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Provision and operate Azure NetApp Files: create NetApp accounts, allocate capacity pools, expose NFS or SMB volumes, and snapshot data. Useful for high-performance file storage automation.

Connect the Microsoft NetApp to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Microsoft NetApp, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Install Jentic One Beta (Self-Hosted)

Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Microsoft NetApp API.

Create or update an Azure NetApp account that scopes capacity pools and volumes

Allocate a capacity pool with a chosen service level and provisioned size in TiB

Expose NFS or SMB volumes from a capacity pool with quota and protocol settings

Take, list, and restore snapshots of NetApp volumes for point-in-time recovery

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View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for Microsoft NetApp, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Microsoft NetApp, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The Azure NetApp Files management API provisions and operates the high-performance file storage tier built on NetApp ONTAP, organised as accounts containing capacity pools, capacity pools containing volumes, and volumes optionally backed by snapshots and mount targets. Use it to create accounts, allocate capacity pools, expose NFS or SMB volumes, snapshot data, and check name and file path availability before provisioning. Authentication is via Azure Active Directory OAuth 2.0 on Azure Resource Manager.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Microsoft NetApp API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Provision file storage for an HPC workload

HPC and SAP HANA teams use the API to provision Azure NetApp Files at scale: a NetApp account anchored in a region, one or more capacity pools at a chosen service level (Standard, Premium, or Ultra), and NFS volumes sized to the workload. Each PUT call is asynchronous, so the agent polls the operation URL until provisioning succeeds before mounting the volume from compute.

PUT /.../netAppAccounts/{accountName}, then PUT capacityPools/{poolName} with serviceLevel and size, then PUT volumes/{volumeName} with usageThreshold and protocol set to NFSv3 or NFSv4.1.

Snapshot and restore production data

Operations teams take frequent snapshots of NetApp volumes before deployments or risky migrations. Snapshots are space-efficient point-in-time copies that can be listed, restored, or deleted through dedicated endpoints, providing a fast roll-back path that does not require restoring from a full backup.

PUT /.../volumes/{volumeName}/snapshots/{snapshotName} to capture the snapshot, then if needed call the snapshot revert API on the volume to roll back.

Right-size capacity pools as workloads grow

As workloads grow, teams expand the capacity pool that backs a set of volumes rather than recreating the storage tier. The PATCH endpoint on a capacity pool updates its size in TiB while leaving the volumes inside untouched. Combine with GET on the pool to read the current size, and with the volumes list to confirm utilisation before resizing.

GET the capacity pool to read current size, then PATCH /.../capacityPools/{poolName} with the new size in bytes (TiB multiplied by 2^40).

Agent-driven NetApp lifecycle

Through Jentic, an AI agent can read a workload spec and provision a complete NetApp environment: account, capacity pool, NFS volume, and a daily snapshot policy. The agent searches Jentic for 'create azure netapp volume', loads the operations in turn, and chains the calls. Jentic injects the Azure AD bearer token at execution time so the agent never sees raw credentials.

Use Jentic search 'create azure netapp volume', execute Accounts_CreateOrUpdate then Pools_CreateOrUpdate then Volumes_CreateOrUpdate, polling the async operation URL between steps.

Key Endpoints

24 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for microsoft netapp, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

PUT

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/netAppAccounts/{accountName}

Create or update a NetApp account

PUT

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/netAppAccounts/{accountName}/capacityPools/{poolName}

Create or update a capacity pool

PUT

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/netAppAccounts/{accountName}/capacityPools/{poolName}/volumes/{volumeName}

Create or update a volume

PUT

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/netAppAccounts/{accountName}/capacityPools/{poolName}/volumes/{volumeName}/snapshots/{snapshotName}

Create a volume snapshot

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/netAppAccounts/{accountName}/capacityPools/{poolName}/volumes/{volumeName}/mountTargets

List volume mount targets

POST

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/locations/{location}/checkFilePathAvailability

Check file path availability

POST

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/locations/{location}/checkNameAvailability

Check resource name availability

PUT

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/netAppAccounts/{accountName}

Create or update a NetApp account

PUT

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/netAppAccounts/{accountName}/capacityPools/{poolName}

Create or update a capacity pool

PUT

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/netAppAccounts/{accountName}/capacityPools/{poolName}/volumes/{volumeName}

Create or update a volume

PUT

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/netAppAccounts/{accountName}/capacityPools/{poolName}/volumes/{volumeName}/snapshots/{snapshotName}

Create a volume snapshot

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Azure AD client credentials live encrypted in the Jentic vault. Jentic mints a short-lived ARM-scoped bearer token at execution time so the agent never handles raw client secrets.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic with phrases like 'create azure netapp volume' or 'snapshot azure netapp' and Jentic returns the matching operation with its input schema, including service level and protocol enums.

Time to first call

Direct integration: 3-5 days to handle MSAL, the three-level resource hierarchy, async polling, and delegated subnet plumbing. Through Jentic: under an hour.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

Storage Management Client

Provision general-purpose Azure Storage accounts (blob, file, queue) instead of NetApp's high-performance tier.

Pick Storage Management for blob and standard file shares; pick NetApp for high-throughput NFS or SMB workloads.

Complementary

Compute Management Client

Provision the Azure VMs that mount NetApp volumes.

Use Compute Management to create VMs in the same VNet as the NetApp delegated subnet.

Complementary

Network Management Client

Configure the delegated subnet that NetApp volumes attach to.

Use Network Management first to create the delegated subnet for Microsoft.Netapp/volumes before provisioning volumes.

Complementary

Recovery Services Backup Client

Add Azure Backup coverage on top of NetApp's snapshot-based recovery.

Use Recovery Services Backup when policy demands an external backup vault on top of in-place NetApp snapshots.

FAQs

Specific to using Microsoft NetApp API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Microsoft NetApp?

Microsoft Azure does not publish a standalone OpenAPI specification for the NetApp Files resource provider. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Microsoft NetApp via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the NetApp Files API use?

The API uses Azure Active Directory OAuth 2.0 via the azure_auth scheme on https://management.azure.com/. Through Jentic, your Azure AD application credentials are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and exchanged for a short-lived bearer token at execution time.

Can I create an NFS volume with this API?

Yes. After provisioning a NetApp account and capacity pool, call PUT /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/netAppAccounts/{accountName}/capacityPools/{poolName}/volumes/{volumeName} with protocolTypes set to NFSv3 or NFSv4.1 and usageThreshold sized for your workload.

What are the rate limits for the NetApp Files API?

The endpoints inherit standard Azure Resource Manager throttle quotas, surfaced through x-ms-ratelimit-remaining-* response headers. Long-running operations such as Volumes_CreateOrUpdate return 202 with an Azure-AsyncOperation URL the agent should poll rather than retry.

How do I take a snapshot through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'create azure netapp snapshot', load Snapshots_Create, supply the account, pool, volume, and snapshot name, and execute. The response includes the snapshot's resource ID, which the agent can store for later restore or delete operations.

What service levels does NetApp Files support?

Capacity pools are created with one of three service levels: Standard, Premium, or Ultra. The level is set on the pool's serviceLevel property and determines the throughput per TiB the volumes inside the pool can sustain. Volumes inherit the service level from their parent pool.

Can I check name availability before creating resources?

Yes. POST /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/locations/{location}/checkNameAvailability validates resource names, and POST /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.NetApp/locations/{location}/checkFilePathAvailability validates volume file paths against the chosen subnet to avoid conflicts.