With managed disks all you have to do is provision the disk and azure takes care of the rest.
Azure object storage metadata.
We call a managed disk managed because it is an abstraction over page blobs blob containers and azure storage accounts.
User defined metadata consists of one or more name value pairs that you specify for a blob storage resource.
Azure managed disks are stored as page blobs which are a random io storage object in azure.
Azure blob storage is microsoft s object storage solution for the cloud.
Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data.
Unstructured data is data that doesn t adhere to a particular data model or definition such as text or binary data.
The azure storage client library for net maintains these properties for you.
The azure storage client library for net maintains these properties for you.
You can use metadata to store additional values with the resource.
User defined metadata consists of one or more name value pairs that you specify for a blob storage resource.
You can use metadata to store additional values with the resource.
The most common scenario is adding metadata during file upload.
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.