Azure Storage - How to tell what vhd is attached to what?

On our storage account in our vhd container we have vhd blobs. The issue is that it looks like some where renamed from what I manually named to them to some incomprehensible name. I'm not sure when this took place but sometime in the last month. So I now
have no idea what base OS vhd goes where.
How can tell which vhd is attached to which VM?
How do I rename these VHD's without taking down the server?
How can I find out which ones are not being used? It looks like 2 vhd's (30GB) haven't been modified for a month but how do I actually know they are not being attached to anything and being used? (Note: we only have vhd's no other blobs.)
How do I get Azure to stop renaming the blobs to some meaningless name?
Thanks,
Chris

How can tell which vhd is attached to which VM?
Since a VHD is essentially a page blob and is stored as a disk (OS disk or Data disk), you can list all disks and the result will include the URL of the blob. If you're using
Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets, you can find this information by executing Get-AzureDisk cmdlet. Also see this link for more details:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj157176.aspx
How do I rename these VHD's without taking down the server?
I don't think you can do that. Again because these VHDs are page blobs and blob storage do not support "Rename" operation natively, you would need to copy the VHD first and once the copy is complete, you can delete the original one.
How can I find out which ones are not being used? It looks like 2 vhd's (30GB) haven't been modified for a month but how do I actually know they are not being attached to anything and being used? (Note: we only have vhd's no other blobs.)
When a VHD is attached to a VM, Windows Azure puts a lock (lease) on the blob holding the VHD. Easiest way for you to check is by listing the blobs in that container and find out which blob has active lease on it. Other way obviously is to get all disks
and get the URLs and comparing them with all blobs in that container.
How do I get Azure to stop renaming the blobs to some meaningless name?
Not sure what you mean. Could you please explain?
Hope this helps.

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