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techraf
Asked: 2017-01-04 04:09:18 +0800 CST

Cannot delete an empty Storage Account on Azure RM

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When trying to delete Azure Resource Group in the Azure Portal I get an error pointing to a Storage Account which could not be deleted.

Indeed, trying to delete the Storage Account results in an error:

Failed to delete storage account 'clie6aa7aa53aa7ace414833'. Error: The storage account cannot be deleted due to its artifacts being in use. For more information on troubleshooting this issue, see https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/storage-cannot-delete-storage-account-container-vhd/

The article is not helpful, I have already deleted all blobs and files. There are no remaining containers on the SA:

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When trying to delete from PowerShell I get:

PS C:\> Remove-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName myresourcegroupname001 -StorageAccountName cl
i6c4ccaf5d718f00c14833

Confirm
Remove Storage Account 'cli6c4ccaf5d718f00c14833' and all content in it
[Y] Yes  [N] No  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"): y
Remove-AzureRmStorageAccount : Operation returned an invalid status code 'Conflict'
At line:1 char:1
+ Remove-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName myresourcegroupname00 ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Remove-AzureRmStorageAccount], CloudException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Management.Storage.RemoveAzureStorageAccountCommand

Currently I have two such undeletable, empty storage accounts - one of which remains for over 72 hours.

Is there anything I can do to delete this Storage Account?

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I had the same problem that went on for several days. I was eventually able to resolve the problem by doing the following:

    1. Create a new VM (in my case an Ubuntu VM with SSD) in the same Resource Group as the problematic Storage Account
    2. Add the drive to the same Resource Group, same region, etc
    3. Delete the new VM, then delete the VHD container for the VM in the problematic Storage Account
    4. Remove the problematic Storage Account
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  2. Afaik, this could happen when you delete the Virtual Machine, but there is a disk associated to it, an it creates an artifact under the disk tab.

    As this article says https://redeploy.se/break-remove-lease-azure-blob/,

    When working with Resource Manager (ARM) virtual machines the disks are not seen in the classic portal.

    So it possibly can be a disk underneath a ARM, if all the articles about Storage Account troubleshooting aren't helpful, you can contact Azure support.

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  3. AFAIK It's a common error. Your vhd is in this storage account, that's why you can't remove it, without delete the vhd.

    https://stackoverflow.com/a/10969013/1384539deleting

    Solution: deleting the disks can be done via the previous version of the portal manage.windowsazure.com Virtual Machines -> Disks

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