Expanding the EVS Disk Capacity of a FlexusX Instance

Scenarios

As your business develops or data volume grows, existing EVS disk capacity of a FlexusX instance may no longer meet your storage needs. In this case, you can expand the disk capacity without interrupting your services. Expanding the disk capacity does not affect the data on the disks.

Billing

If you scale up an EVS disk, you will be billed for the additional capacity. The billing mode of the additional capacity will be the same as that of the disk.

For details, see Billing for Disks.

Procedure

1. Log in to the FlexusX console. In the upper left corner, click and select a region.
2. Locate the FlexusX instance, and in the Operation column, choose More > Manage Disk/Backup > Expand Disk.
3. Select the disk you want to expand and click OK.
4. Set the new capacity of the disk, click Next, and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the expansion.

   

5. Return to the FlexusX console. On the instance details page, view the disk capacity on the Disks tab.
   Figure 1 Viewing the disk capacity
   

Helpful Links

After the disk capacity is expanded, you have to log in to the FlexusX instance and extend the partition and file system before you can make use of the additional capacity. If the data disk you expanded has not been initialized, you will need to initialize the disk after the capacity expansion.

• For Linux, see Extending Partitions and File Systems for Data Disks (Linux).