Recently, I got the requirement to increase the RAM size of my Azure Virtual Machine. This article will walk you through all the steps to increase RAM size in Azure VM.
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How To Increase RAM Size In Azure VM
To increase RAM size in Azure VM, follow the below steps.
1. Log in to the Azure Portal.
2. Search for Virtual Machines. Click on the search result Virtual Machines as shown in the screenshot below.
3. Click on the specific Virtual Machine from the list as shown in the screenshot below.
4. Expand the Availability + scale node and click the Size link from the left navigation, as shown in the screenshot below.
5. Check out the RAM (GiB) column, see the desired size and, select the size based on your requirement and, then click the Resize button as shown in the screenshot below.
Now, you can see the RAM size of the Azure VM has been changed successfully, as shown below.
You can also use the az vm resize Azure CLI command to increase the RAM size in Azure VM.
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Conclusion
You can use either Azure Portal, Azure CLI or PowerShell to increase the size of the Azure Virtual Machine.
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I am Rajkishore, and I am a Microsoft Certified IT Consultant. I have over 14 years of experience in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with good experience in Azure Functions, Storage, Virtual Machines, Logic Apps, PowerShell Commands, CLI Commands, Machine Learning, AI, Azure Cognitive Services, DevOps, etc. Not only that, I do have good real-time experience in designing and developing cloud-native data integrations on Azure or AWS, etc. I hope you will learn from these practical Azure tutorials. Read more.
