Today, I shall like to show you how to resize your Virtual Machine (VM) disk sizes on Azure in just few simple ways. It's worthy of note to let you know that VM disk can only be increase, reducing the size of your VM is not applicable.
To resize your VM disk capacity on Azure, you are to first create a VM, please review my article (https://dev.to/samuel_olo75614/steps-to-creating-azure-virtual-machines-18am) on how to create a VM.
Navigate to your VM by double clicking your VM from your home page.
Note: VM disk cannot be resized while running, it has to be stopped or deallocate before carrying out this task.
In the left menu under Settings, select Disks.
Under Disk name, select the disk you want to expand, also take note of the initial disk size.
In the left menu under Settings, select Size + performance.
In Size + performance, select the disk size you want. I am upgrading from 127Gib to 512Gib.
Click on save then overview to check the current upgrade made.
Upgrade confirmed.
This equally applies to when you want to decrease your VM size.
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