Resize a Cloud Pool virtual machine

Published 9/28/2026· 17 views

You can increase a VM's resources from free capacity remaining in its Cloud Pool.

What you can change

From the VM Settings tab:

Resource How it works
vCPU Set a new core count
Memory Set a new memory size (MB in the form)
Storage Add additional root-disk space in GB (growth only)

Resize is limited by the pool's remaining quota after other VMs are counted.

Steps

  1. Open Compute → Cloud pools → your pool → the VM.
  2. Open the Settings tab.
  3. Enter the new CPU and/or memory values, and/or how many GB of storage to add.
  4. Submit the resize.
  5. Wait for the queued job to finish, then refresh the page if metrics still look old.

Important limits

  • You can only spend capacity the pool still has free.
  • Storage resize is typically grow-only — you cannot shrink the disk from this form.
  • A running guest may need a reboot (or filesystem grow steps inside the OS) before it fully sees new CPU, memory, or disk.

Tips

  • Check the pool header meters before resizing a large VM.
  • Resize one resource at a time if you are troubleshooting.
  • Plan disk growth before the guest filesystem fills up; the portal add only expands the virtual disk.

Still stuck?

Open a support ticket from Support → Tickets if resize fails with a capacity error you believe is wrong, or the guest never sees the new size after a reboot.

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