How to resize your VM OS on Azure

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I will be showing you how you can increase or reduce your Virtual Machine (VM) OS size (RAM) on Azure in just few simple ways.

To reduce your VM OS size on Azure, you are to first create a VM, please review my article [https://dev.to/samuel_olo75614/steps-to-creating-azure-virtual-machines-18am] on how to create a VM.

Open the Azure portal, navigate to your VM in which you want to expand the disk by double clicking on it.

Open the page for the virtual machine, in the left menu under Settings, select size. Please don't forget to take note of the initial OS you mounted on your VM (Standard B2s (2 vcpus, 4 GiB memory), now we are upgrading to Standard D2as v4 (2 vcpus, 8 GiB memory).

Pick a new size from the list of available sizes and then select Resize, then click overview (2) to confirm the change made.

You now have your VM OS upgraded to Standard D2as v4 (2 vcpus, 8 GiB memory)

Please note that you can equally do a downgrade of your OS size by following same process.

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