Scaling Up a DCS Instance

This API is used to scale up a DCS Redis or Memcached instance in the Running state.

POST /v1.0/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/extend

Table 1 describes the parameters.

**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
project_id	String	Yes	Project ID. For details on how to obtain the value of this parameter, see Obtaining a Project ID.
instance_id	String	Yes	Instance ID.

Request parameters

Table 2 describes the request parameters.

**Table 2** Parameter description
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
new_capacity	Integer	Yes	New specification (memory space) of the DCS instance. The new specification to which the DCS instance will be scaled up must be greater than the current specification. Unit: GB. The value must be supported specifications. For details, see the Total Memory (GB) column in the "DCS Instance Specifications" section in Distributed Cache Service User Guide.
spec_code	String	Yes	DCS instance specification code.

Example request

Request URL:

POST https://{dcs_endpoint}/v1.0/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/extend

Response parameters

None

Example response

None

Table 3 describes the status code of successful operations. For details about other status codes, see Table 1.

**Table 3** Status code
Status Code	Description
204	Scale-up task submitted successfully.

Parent topic: Lifecycle Management APIs

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