This how to guide will explain in detail how to incease the storage capacity of an Azure Virtual Machine

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EG to add 10TB select and S40 (2TB) and S60 (8TB)

How-to guide:

• Login to the customers Azure portal

• Browse to the desired Virtual Machine by clicking in the search box and selecting Virtual Machines

• Open

  

  Select the desired Virtual Machine from the list, usually this will be an App server

• Once the Virtual Machine page is displayed select disks on the left hand side

• Once the disk page is displayed, select Add data disk

• You will then be presented with some options, disk name, size, etc

• The top half of the form should look similar to this once completed

• In the bottom half of the form we need to select a storage account to be used as these are unmanaged disks (managed disks select the storage account automatically)

• Scroll down and click on Browse to select the storage account to be used

• After clicking on Browse select the desired storage account

• Then select the desired container to be used

• Click select

• Then click OK

• The disk is now added and visible in the list, set the Host Caching to match the other disks and all looks correct, click Save

• Azure will now update the virtual machine with the new disk configuration

• After Azure has completed the updating it should look like this

• We now need to complete the remainder of this task on the server itself, so logon to the server over RDP

• Once you are on the server open an MMC by clicking start and MMC (Microsoft Management Console)

• Open MMC and select File > Add Remove Snapin

• Now select Disk Management > Add

• Ensure This Computer is selected and click Finish

• Click OK

• In the Console root double click Disk Management

• Click OK to Initialize the new disk

• Identify the drive you wish to expand

• Right click on the drive and select Extend Volume

• This opens the Extend Volume wizard click next

• Select the disk in Available and click Add

• Click Next

• Click Finish

• Click Yes on the Disk Management dialogue box

• Browse to This PC in Windows explorer to confirm the disk space is now expanded by 1TB

• The final step is to update the customers config log to include this storage expansion