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Many disks in Azure, using just two of them

Carlos Yohn Zubiría 41 Reputation points
2023-01-12T08:43:22.56+00:00

I see many disks in azure; as far as i know we use only two of them attached to just one VM. Why the others? Are them consuming resources and money? Can i delete them?

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Marian Leica 536 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2023-01-12T09:06:38.7566667+00:00

Hi! Looking at the naming convention, perhaps you created the same VM a few times without putting a check on "Delete with VM" for the Disk resources, and probably because of that you deleted the VM resource itself but not the disks associated with it.

To answer your question, yes, disk resources come with costs on your subscription, and you can delete them. To be extra sure you are not deleting any important data from your data disks you can check the contents easily by attaching them to a VM. The OS disks you can delete directly if you are not using them for any VM.

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