Updated on 2025-08-05 GMT+08:00

Manually Scaling Up Storage Space

This section describes how to scale up storage of an instance to suit your service requirements.

Usage Notes

  • Scaling up storage does not interrupt your services. After storage scale-up is complete, you do not need to restart your instance.
  • If your yearly/monthly instance is running out of storage, additional usage will be billed on a pay-per-use basis. To avoid these extra costs and maintain the benefits of your yearly/monthly subscription, you are advised to scale up storage.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Huawei Cloud console.
  2. In the service list, choose Databases > GeminiDB.
  3. On the Instances page, locate the target instance and choose More > Scale Storage Space in the Operation column.

    Click the instance name. In the Storage Space area on the Basic Information page, click Scale.

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

    Figure 1 Scaling up storage space
    • To scale up classic storage, you need to add at least 1 GB each time. The value must be an integer.
    • To scale up cloud native storage, you need to add at least 10 GB each time. The value must be an integer multiple of 10.

  5. On the displayed page, confirm the storage space.

    • Yearly/Monthly
      • If you need to modify your settings, click Previous.
      • If you do not need to modify your settings, click Next and complete the payment.
    • Pay-per-use
      • If you need to modify your settings, click Previous.
      • If you do not need to modify your settings, click Submit.

  6. Check the results.

    • When the scaling task is ongoing, the instance status is Scaling storage space.
    • After the scaling process, the instance status becomes Available.
    • Click the instance name. In the Storage Space area on the Basic Information page, check the new storage space.