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

1. Log in to the Huawei Cloud console.
2. In the service list, choose Databases > GeminiDB.
3. On the Instances page, click the target instance name.
4. In the Cold Storage area on the Basic Information page, click Scale.
   Figure 1 Changing the cold storage capacity
   

5. On the displayed page, specify the cold storage space and click Next.
   Figure 2 Scaling down cold storage
   

6. 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.

7. 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.