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Scaling Up Storage Space

Scenarios

You can scale up storage space of yearly/monthly DB instances if it is no longer sufficient for your requirements. If you do not scale up storage space, you will be billed in pay-per-use mode for the additional storage. If you scale up storage space, you will be billed in yearly/monthly mode for the additional storage. During the scaling-up period, services are not interrupted, and backup services are not affected.

Constraints

  • Only yearly/monthly DB instances support storage scaling-up.
  • DB instances can be scaled up numerous times.
  • You cannot reboot or delete a DB instance that is being scaled up.
  • Storage space can only be scaled up, not down.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.
  3. Click Service List. Under Database, click GaussDB.
  4. On the Instance Management page, locate the target DB instance and choose More > Scale Storage Space in the Operation column.

    Alternatively, click the target DB instance to go to the Basic Information page. In the Storage/Backup Space area, click Scale, as shown in Figure 1.

    Figure 1 Scaling up storage space

  5. On the displayed page, specify the new storage space and click Next.

    The storage space grows in 10 GB increments up to 128,000 GB.

  6. Confirm your specifications.

    • If you need to modify your settings, click Previous.
    • If you do not need to modify your settings, click Submit to go to the payment page and complete the payment.

  7. View the scale-up result.

    On the Instance Management page, click the target DB instance. On the displayed Basic Information page, verify that the scale-up is successful.

Parent topic: DB Instance Management