Resize Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

VM OS & Data disk using Azure Portal

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Madan [MSFT]September 28, 20166

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If you have an Azure VM that was created using the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) stack you can
now easily resize the OS or the data disk within the Azure Portal. Of course, you can also use
PowerShell but way too easy using the GUI.

1. Navigate to the Virtual Machine (VM) that you would like to resize the disk(s).
2. Shutdown the VM from the Azure portal. Make sure it's completely shutdown (de-allocated)

3. Select 'Disks' in the Settings blade.

4. Select the OS/Data disk that you would like to resize.
5. On the new blade, enter the new disk size (1023GB or 1TB max per disk).

Note: The below screenshot shows OS disk resize which has Host Caching set to Read/Write. For data
disk it's ideally set to none.

6. Hit 'Save' on top.

7. Start the VM back again.
That's it! You can login to the VM and check that you have the new selected size for the disk(s).