How to change a VM's disk to a smaller, lower-cost disk? Como alterar o disco de uma VM para um outro disco menor e com menor custo?

Question

Como alterar o disco de uma VM para um outro disco menor e com menor custo? Quero trocar um P10 por um S6, mas sem perder os dados.

Obrigado.

How to change a VM's disk to a smaller, lower-cost disk? I want to exchange a P10 for an S6, but without losing data.

Tanks.

Answer 1

Hello @GABRIEL COSTA AMARAL ,

As you know, shrinking/decreasing an existing disk isn’t supported in the Azure, and can potentially result in the data loss. It's only possible to increase the size of a disk but not decrease it.

The same can be confirmed there: "How to expand the OS drive of a virtual machine"

A workaround would be for you:

1) Create a smaller disk. Attach it to a VM.
2) Move all the data to a new smaller disk, test it.
3) Detach and delete the bigger disk.

(If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote and/or accept as answer, thank you)

Regards,
Olga

Answer 2

But this question doesn't belong in this Small Basic programming language forum. Please remove the tag small-basix-discussion