Check number of used VHDs in ARM storage account?

Q. How can I check the number of VHDs in an ARM storage account?

A. Each Azure IaaS VM attached disk for a standard tier VM in a standard storage account provides up to 500 IOPS and each storage account provides up 20,000 IOPS. This means you should never have more than 40 used VHD files in a storage account. You can have additional VHD files that are not currently used by VMs, you care about VHDs attached to VMs which can be detected by a lease on the page blob containing the VHD. With ARM there is no concept of a disk as its own entity with its own lifecycle. Instead a disk is a page blob that is attached to a VM. The code below will highlight if you have more than 40 VHDs used by VMs in a storage account. Change the storage account name and resource group at the start of the code.

$AzStorAccName = 'savtechsalrsscus' #Storage account name
$AzResGroup = 'rg-scusa' #resource group name

$VHDsinAct = 0

$AllBlobs = Get-AzureRMStorageAccount -Name $AzStorAccName -ResourceGroupName $AzResGroup | 
    Get-AzureStorageContainer | where {$_.Name -eq 'vhds'} | Get-AzureStorageBlob | where {$_.Name.EndsWith('.vhd')} 

foreach ($Blob in $AllBlobs)
{
    if($Blob.ICloudBlob.Properties.LeaseState -eq 'Leased' -and $Blob.ICloudBlob.Properties.LeaseDuration -eq 'Infinite')
    {
        #Assume its used by a VM
        $outString = "VHD " + $Blob.Name + " used by VM"
        Write-Output $outString
        $VHDsinAct++
    }
}

if($VHDsinAct -le 40)
{
    Write-Output "Total of $VHDsinAct VHDs in storage account"
}
else #more than 40
{
    Write-Output "*** More than 40 VHDs ($VHDsinAct) in storage account ***"
}

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