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Yuukan
Feb 03, 2020Copper Contributor
Problem with Azure Storage Account (Used Capacity) Metrics
I have a bit of an odd issue in that when looking at the used Capacity metrics on my storage account it shows a wildly different amount from what is actually in use. We have had a storage account th...
hspinto
Microsoft
Feb 04, 2020Yuukan, can you clarify what you mean by "throttling" and was the real capacity usage value vs. the value observed in metrics? 400 GiB of usage in a Storage Account is almost nothing compared to the Storage Account limits (in the order of TiB or even PiB). See scalability targets documentation.
By the way, if your VMs are production ones, it is a bad idea to have multiple VMs sharing the same storage account - single point of failure.