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Data Disk Expansion

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By default, the root partition is provisioned with ~100GB and the data partition is provisioned with ~49GB

Default Layout:

Update disk size in Azure portal:​

  • Login to Azure Portal

  • Click on the VM that requires the disk size to be increased.

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  • Stop the VM by clicking on stop and wait for the VM to be in stopped state.

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  • Click on Disks and Select the disk name associated with the VM.

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  • In the disk overview page, click on the size + performance and update the Custom disk size(GiB) value and click save in the botton of the page.

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  • Once the disk is increased navigate back to the VM and start it by clicking the start button

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Expand the disk on a cluster node​

  • To expand the available space on the disk, Launch the fwd-cluster utility and execute the below command:

    Forward Cluster> host expand-disk