Allow resize of attached VHD-disks
Right now you cannot resize your VHD-disks once attached to a VM directly from the portal. Edit should be possible to at least increase the size of VHD-disks on demand.


Currently you can increase the size of a disk when the VM is in the stop-deallocated state. We are also working on a solution where a disk can be increased in size while attached to a running VM.
20 comments
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Anonymous commented
Still no update on this, Azure?
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Suj commented
Any updates azure?
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Suj commented
Any updates? Please allow the increasing of managed disk size without deallocating the VM. +999 for this feature
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Anonymous commented
I see this is a planned feature, is there a target date for its release? Coming from VMware where this has been available since the beginning this functionality oversight** is a real issue, especially considering AWS and Google support the functionality
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Anonymous commented
Still not working, really sad...
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Jean-Bernard Jansen commented
I was unpleasantly surprised to discover this. Or is it a scheme to make us pay more by over provisioning ?
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BenTheBuilder commented
7 years later and still NOTHING!
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Daniel Nevelos commented
Either only charged for the disk space used on managed disks like you do on disks stored on traditional storage accounts, or enable this feature Microsoft. We should not have to schedule down time to expand disks in the year 2020. No update in almost a year is inexcusable given the amount of migration to managed disks and Azure in general that has happened in good faith that this must have feature would be added.
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Anonymous commented
Any news for this feature?
We are hosting Exchange on Azure, and what a pain for every little disk increase we have to put the servers in maintenance and shutdown. Its one of the worst downside possible coming from VMWare.
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Mike D. commented
So, this is still not in place, right? Seems like if AWS can figure out how to resize a disk in a running Windows VM, MS should be able to as well.
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Anonymous commented
It is been over 7 years, no wonder AWS are leading the way in the cloud.
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Aquib Ahmed Qureshi commented
A must have feature
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Mike D. commented
So...when can we expect this resize disks in a tuning VM?
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David O'Keefe commented
As previously noted, Microsoft charges for the provisioned space of a managed disk. We cannot grossly oversize disks because of the cost. We need the ability to resize managed disks without deprovisioning the VM.
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Chai S commented
This post suggests charges are based on disk provisioned, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/ , not used. It's time to make resizing disk possible.
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Anonymous commented
For older VMs which started out with 127Gb disks, this is an issue.
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TJ Cornish commented
This creates a problem when trying to retrieve a VHD back to on-prem - the fully-populated VHD size may exceed the disk space of the on-prem machine, even though the used data of the VHD is small.
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Ian commented
This is great if you are setting up a new server or have the ability to just rebuild a server(s) but what about exiting servers that need to be increased?
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Anonymous commented
So, say that my C: drive is already at 127GB, but I really need to increase it. What are my options?
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Toni Benamar commented
Does this work under Linux (Ubuntu, ext4 filesystem), i.e. can I safely allocate very large disk and assume that I will be billed for used space only?