- **For the primary node type:** Our recommendation is that you do not change VM SKU of the primary node type. Changing of the primary node type SKU is not supported. If the reason for the new SKU is capacity, we recommend adding more instances. If that not possible, create a new cluster and [restore application state](service-fabric-reliable-services-backup-restore.md) (if applicable) from your old cluster. You do not need to restore any system service state, they are recreated when you deploy your applications to your new cluster. If you were just running stateless applications on your cluster, then all you do is deploy your applications to the new cluster, you have nothing to restore. If you decide to go the unsupported route and want to change the VM SKU, then make modifications to the virtual machine scale set Model definition to reflect the new SKU. If your cluster has only one node type, then make sure that all your stateful applications respond to all [Service replica lifecycle events](service-fabric-reliable-services-lifecycle.md) (like replica in build is stuck) in a timely fashion and that your service replica rebuild duration is less than five minutes (for Silver durability level).
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