Managing VM Sizes

When you want to add or remove resources to your VM, you will look at the VM size option in Azure. After creating your VM, you can manage and change the sizes of Windows and Linux VMs from the Azure portal, PowerShell, and the Azure CLI. This is known as vertical scaling (scaling up and down). Vertical scaling refers to increasing or decreasing resources (CPU and memory) by changing VM SKU sizes in response to different workloads.

In this section, you will learn how to resize your VM using the Azure portal and CLI.

Exercise 13.1: Resizing Your VM Using the Azure Portal

In the following demonstration, you will explore how to change the VM size of your VM:

1. Sign in to the Azure portal: https://portal.azure.com/home.
2. Navigate to a VM you created in the previous exercise. On the left menu, under the Availability + scale context, click the Size option:
   

Figure 13.1: VM size setting

3. You will be presented with several VM Size options...