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How to Increase Disk size of Azure VM

Written May 2018. Microsoft changes these admin screens often, so the screenshots below may not match what you see today. The sequence of steps is usually still correct — if something looks wrong, tell us and we'll update it.
  • Navigate to portal.azure.com:
  • Click on All services search Virtual machine and click on Virtual machines:
  • Now choose your desired VM:
  • To resize Disk we first need to Stop the VM:
  • Now click on Disks:
  • Now choose the Disk which needs to be resized:
  • 4.Put the desired Size and click on Save button:
  • Now Start the VM when started click on Connect:
  • Click on Start button in VM and write diskmgmt click on Create and format hard disk partitions:
  • Right Click on disk you want extend and click on Extend button:

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