Microsoft Azure

You can deallocate a VM by using the stop button in the portal to turn it off.

Disk Resize

NOTE: Virtual machines MUST be deallocated in order to resize.

Using the portal

• In the Azure portal select the VM you wish to resize
• Select the stop button (this should deallocate it)
• Navigate to 'Disks' in the lefthand pane
• Select the disk you wish to resize by name
• Navigate to 'Size + performance' under 'Settings' in the lefthand pane
• Update disk accordingly

Once restarted:

• use growpart to grow the partition to fill up all available space on the disk
• use resize2fs to grow the volume to utilize the new partition space