Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

Resizing disks

As I mentioned earlier, I recommend using the disks with their maximum size, however, if you already have some disks created and want to resize them, or even want to resize the OS disk (because by default it is 127 GB), you can follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the VM, stop it, and wait until its status turns to Stopped (deallocated).
2. Navigate to Disks, which is located under SETTINGS, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.17: Azure VM disks

3. Navigate to the OS disk.

4. Enter the size you wish the disk to be, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.18: Resizing the OS disk

At the time of writing, the maximum ...