Today I deleted an Azure storage container that contained some .vhd
s page blobs.
Some of the blobs were the source for some VM disks that were attached to running VM's.
I was surprised that the delete operation worked and even more surprised that the VM's haven't missed a beat.
I shut the VM's down and exported the Disk images successfully.
I've read a lot of accounts of people not able to delete leased blobs because they were the source of attached disks, but I seem to be experiencing the opposite: it was waaaay too easy to delete the container having these VHD blobs.
What is going on here? Why does everything still work?