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Scaling Down Cold Storage
Updated on 2025-07-29 GMT+08:00
Scaling Down Cold Storage
Scenarios
Cold storage of GeminiDB Influx cluster (performance-enhanced) instances can be scaled down when the requested cold storage space needs to be released.
Usage Notes
- Scaling down cold storage does not interrupt your services, and you do not need to restart your instances.
- Currently, only cluster (performance-enhanced) instances support this function.
Procedure
- Log in to the Huawei Cloud console.
- In the service list, choose Databases > GeminiDB.
- On the Instances page, click the target instance name.
- In the Cold Storage area on the Basic Information page, click Scale.
Figure 1 Changing the cold storage capacity
- On the displayed page, specify the cold storage space and click Next.
Figure 2 Scaling down cold storage
- On the displayed page, confirm the cold storage space.
- Yearly/Monthly
- To modify your settings, click Previous.
- If you do not need to modify your settings, click Submit.
- Pay-per-use
- To modify your settings, click Previous.
- If you do not need to modify your settings, click Submit.
- Yearly/Monthly
- Check the scale-down result.
- During the scale-down, the instance status becomes Changing cold storage capacity.
- After the scale-down is complete, the instance status becomes Available.
- Click the instance name. In the Cold Storage area on the Basic Information page, you can view the new cold storage.
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