---
title: "Azure Specific Management"
slug: "azure-specific-management-5"
tags: ["8.2", "Portal"]
updated: 2024-02-20T11:52:10Z
published: 2024-02-20T11:52:10Z
canonical: "kb.ctera.com/azure-specific-management-5"
---

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# Azure Specific Management

## Increasing the Data or Archive Pool Size

          **Note**

          

CTERA recommends changing the storage with the help of [CTERA Support](https://ctera.com/support).

**To increase the storage:**

1. For each CTERA Portal instance you have installed, stop CTERA Portal services, by doing the following:
  1. Open an SSH session to the CTERA Portal instance.
  2. Log in as `root` user.
  3. Run the command to stop the CTERA Portal services: `portal-manage.sh stop`
2. Log in to your Azure portal and in the main Azure portal menu, click **Virtual machines**.
3. Select the CTERA Portal virtual machine and then click **Stop**.
4. Click **Settings > Disks** in the navigation pane.  

The disks attached to the virtual machine are displayed.
5. Click the disk to enlarge and then click **Settings > Size + performance** in the navigation pane..
6. In the **Custom disk size (GiB)** field, enter the new size for the disk and click **Save**.
7. Under **Virtual machines** select the CTERA Portal virtual machine and then click **Start**.
8. Run the command to stop the CTERA Portal services: `portal-manage.sh stop`
9. Log in as `root` to your CTERA Portal server over SSH.
10. For the data pool, run the following: `portal-storage-util.sh resize_storage`  

For the archive pool, run the following: `portal-storage-util.sh resize_db_archive_pool`
11. For each CTERA Portal instance, starting from the CTERA Portal main database and proceeding to the application servers, start CTERA Portal services.
  1. Log in as `root` user to each CTERA Portal server over SSH.
  2. Run the following command to start the portal services: `portal-manage.sh start`