Storage account can not be deleted with resource group

Question

We wanted to delete a resource group that contained a VM with IP and storage account etc.

Everything got deleted except the storage account because of a vhd which says it still has a lease. I can't break the lease because of the following error message:

Failed to break lease on 1 out of 1 blob(s):
VM2X-20170518-074152.vhd: This blob is being used by the system.

Is there a way to break the lease, delete the blob with the lease active, or find out where it is leased to?

Additional Info: On the vhd on the "Edit blob" tab, I get the following message:

File size of '137.44GB' exceeds max supported file size of '2.1MB.'

Answer 1

This sounds like a familiar problem with classic storage accounts, if it's the problem I think it is you will need to delete image using Powershell.

Set Storage account

$storageAccountName = "your storage account"

Check OS Disk image

Get-AzureVmImage | Where-Object { $_.OSDiskConfiguration.MediaLink -ne $null -and $_.OSDiskConfiguration.MediaLink.Host.Contains($storageAccountName)`
                           } | Select-Object -Property ImageName, ImageLabel

Check Data Disk image

Get-AzureVmImage | Where-Object {$_.DataDiskConfigurations -ne $null `
                                    -and ($_.DataDiskConfigurations | Where-Object {$_.MediaLink -ne $null -and $_.MediaLink.Host.Contains($storageAccountName)}).Count -gt 0 `
                                   } | Select-Object -Property ImageName, ImageLabel

Remove any image

Remove-AzureVMImage -ImageName 'yourImageName'

Note: commands are classic/ASM, make sure you have module installed.