User defined metadata consists of one or more name value pairs that you specify for a blob storage resource.
Azure object storage metadata.
With managed disks all you have to do is provision the disk and azure takes care of the rest.
The azure instance metadata service imds provides information about currently running virtual machine instances and can be used to manage and configure your virtual machines.
User defined metadata consists of one or more name value pairs that you specify for a blob storage resource.
This information includes the sku storage network configurations and upcoming maintenance events.
The azure storage client library for net maintains these properties for you.
You can use metadata to store additional values with the resource.
The most common scenario is adding metadata during file upload.
Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data.
You can use metadata to store additional values with the resource.
Below code is uploading sample invoice from disk and adds year month and day metadata properties.
You can do it in the azure portal using sdk or rest api.
For a complete list of the data that is available see metadata apis.
The azure storage client library for net maintains these properties for you.
Azure managed disks are stored as page blobs which are a random io storage object in azure.