Resize a managed disk in the Azure portalWhen the VM is stopped, in the left menu under Settings, select Disks. Under Disk name, select the disk you want to resize. In the left menu under Settings, select Size + performance. In Size + performance, select the disk size you want.
Open the virtual machine in the Azure portal and select Size under Settings. Search for and select the new size. A task will run to resize the virtual machine. This might take 20-30 seconds.
You'll see it's in the list of available sizes. The code below will change the size of the virtual machine by using the Update-AzVm cmdlet. After the new size is set and stored in the property, the Update-AzVM cmdlet can set the new virtual machine size.
The VM image must meet the Tableau Server hardware guidelines (a minimum of 8 cores and 32 GB of RAM). We recommend that you choose an instance that supports Azure premium storage(Link opens in a new window).
Recommended specifications for a single production instance.
| Component/Resource | Microsoft Azure |
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| CPU | 16 vCPU cores |
Most VMs contain a temporary disk, which is not a managed disk. The temporary disk provides short-term storage for applications and processes, and is intended to only store data such as page or swap files. Data on the temporary disk may be lost during a maintenance event or when you redeploy a VM.
Procedure to Upgrade Virtual Machines
- Shut down the guest operating system and power off the virtual machine,
- Choose VM > Upgrade Virtual Machine.
- Click Yes to continue, then follow the on-screen directions.
- Power on the virtual machine in Workstation 5.
- Upgrade VMware Tools to the new version.
The correct answer is option D (No OS upgrades are supported). Detailed Explanation: No upgrade in the operating system of Microsoft's Azure Virtual Machine environment will be supported by Microsoft.
Enabling Update ManagementFrom your VM, you can select “Manage Updates” on the virtual machines blade, under Automation + Control. After selecting it, validation is performed to determine if the Update Management solution is enabled for this VM. If it is not enabled, you will have the option to enable the solution.
Microsoft does not support operating systems that are past their End of Support date without a Custom Support Agreement (CSA). For example, Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 is no longer supported without a CSA.
Resize Azure VM
- Open the page for the virtual machine.
- . In the left menu, select Size.
- Pick a new size from the list of available sizes and then select Resize.
- If the virtual machine is currently running, changing its size will cause it to be restarted. Stopping the virtual machine may reveal additional sizes. Comments.
Click Edit Virtual Machine Settings. Click Hard Disk. Click Utilities > Expand, enter the new size, then click Expand. Complete the steps in Increasing the size of a disk partition (1004071), so that the guest operating system is aware of the change in disk size.
In the VM Window menu, go to View and make sure that the Auto-resize Guest Display option is enabled. Move the mouse pointer over the corner of the VM window, push the left mouse button and change the size of the VM window.
When you deploy a Windows Server virtual machine (VM) in Microsoft Azure, the default size of the OS disk is 30 GB instead of 128 GB, as expected. This behavior occurs regardless of whether the disk is managed or unmanaged.
You can deallocate a VM using the Azure portal by clicking Stop which actually stops and deallocates the VM. You can also deallocate a VM using an Azure CLI command, such as azure vm deallocate. Deallocating stops the VM and releases all the compute resources so you are no longer charged for the VM compute resources.
The process
- Provision Disk B through the Azure portal and attach to desired VM.
- Initialize/Format Disk B within the Azure VM.
- Copy all data from Disk A to Disk B.
- Detach Disk A from VM in the Azure portal.
- Change the drive letter of Disk B to reflect Disk A's original drive letter.
Disk IOPS: Ultra disks support IOPS limits of 300 IOPS/GiB, up to a maximum of 160 K IOPS per disk. Disk throughput: With ultra disks, the throughput limit of a single disk is 256 KiB/s for each provisioned IOPS, up to a maximum of 2000 MBps per disk (where MBps = 10^6 Bytes per second).
