Merge pull request #221030 from roygara/expandSizeCheck

Expand without downtime classic VM SKU script

Author: JamesJBarnett

articles/virtual-machines/linux/expand-disks.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author: pagienge
 ms.service: storage
 ms.collection: linux
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 09/07/2022
+ms.date: 12/09/2022
 ms.author: pagienge
 ms.subservice: disks
 ms.custom: references_regions, ignite-fall-2021, devx-track-azurecli 
@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@ az feature show --namespace Microsoft.Compute --name LiveResize
 
 ### Expand Azure Managed Disk
 
-# [Azure CLI](#tab/azure-cli)
-
 Make sure that you have the latest [Azure CLI](/cli/azure/install-az-cli2) installed and are signed in to an Azure account by using [az login](/cli/azure/reference-index#az-login).
 
 This article requires an existing VM in Azure with at least one data disk attached and prepared. If you do not already have a VM that you can use, see [Create and prepare a VM with data disks](tutorial-manage-disks.md#create-and-attach-disks).
@@ -122,8 +120,6 @@ In the following samples, replace example parameter names such as *myResourceGro
     az vm start --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myVM
     ```
 
----
-
 ## Expand a disk partition and filesystem
 > [!NOTE]
 > While there are many tools that may be used for performing the partition resizing, the tools detailed in the remainder of this document are the same tools used by certain automated processes such as cloud-init.  As described here, the  `growpart` tool with the `gdisk` package provides universal compatibility with GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks, as older versions of some tools such as `fdisk` did not support GPT.
@@ -615,3 +611,29 @@ To increase the OS disk size in SUSE 12 SP4, SUSE SLES 12 for SAP, SUSE SLES 15,
    /dev/sdb1       3.9G   16M  3.7G   1% /mnt/resource
    tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1000
    ```
+
+---
+
+## Expanding without downtime classic VM SKU support
+
+If you're using a classic VM SKU, it might not support expanding disks without downtime.
+
+Use the following PowerShell script to determine which VM SKUs it's available with:
+
+```azurepowershell
+Connect-AzAccount
+$subscriptionId="yourSubID"
+$location="desiredRegion"
+Set-AzContext -Subscription $subscriptionId
+$vmSizes=Get-AzComputeResourceSku -Location $location | where{$_.ResourceType -eq 'virtualMachines'}
+
+foreach($vmSize in $vmSizes){
+    foreach($capability in $vmSize.Capabilities)
+    {
+       if(($capability.Name -eq "EphemeralOSDiskSupported" -and $capability.Value -eq "True") -or ($capability.Name -eq "PremiumIO" -and $capability.Value -eq "True") -or ($capability.Name -eq "HyperVGenerations" -and $capability.Value -match "V2"))
+        {
+            $vmSize.Name
+       }
+   }
+}
+```

articles/virtual-machines/windows/expand-os-disk.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ manager: roshar
 ms.service: storage
 ms.collection: windows
 ms.topic: article
-ms.date: 09/08/2022
+ms.date: 12/09/2022
 ms.author: kirpas
 ms.subservice: disks
 ms.custom: devx-track-azurepowershell, references_regions, ignite-fall-2021
@@ -151,6 +151,30 @@ When you've expanded the disk for the VM, you need to go into the OS and expand
 
     :::image type="content" source="media/expand-os-disk/disk-mgr-3.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the larger C: volume in Disk Manager.":::
 
+## Expanding without downtime classic VM SKU support
+
+If you're using a classic VM SKU, it might not support expanding disks without downtime.
+
+Use the following PowerShell script to determine which VM SKUs it's available with:
+
+```azurepowershell
+Connect-AzAccount
+$subscriptionId="yourSubID"
+$location="desiredRegion"
+Set-AzContext -Subscription $subscriptionId
+$vmSizes=Get-AzComputeResourceSku -Location $location | where{$_.ResourceType -eq 'virtualMachines'}
+
+foreach($vmSize in $vmSizes){
+    foreach($capability in $vmSize.Capabilities)
+    {
+       if(($capability.Name -eq "EphemeralOSDiskSupported" -and $capability.Value -eq "True") -or ($capability.Name -eq "PremiumIO" -and $capability.Value -eq "True") -or ($capability.Name -eq "HyperVGenerations" -and $capability.Value -match "V2"))
+        {
+            $vmSize.Name
+       }
+   }
+}
+```
+
 ## Next steps
 
 You can also attach disks using the [Azure portal](attach-managed-disk-portal.md).

includes/virtual-machines-disks-expand-without-downtime-restrictions.md

@@ -5,11 +5,10 @@
  author: roygara
  ms.service: virtual-machines
  ms.topic: include
- ms.date: 10/14/2022
+ ms.date: 12/09/2022
  ms.author: rogarana
  ms.custom: include file
 ---    
-- Only available with particular VM SKUs.
 - Only supported for data disks.
 - If a disk is 4 TiB or less, you can't expand it beyond 4 TiB without deallocating the VM. If a disk is already greater than 4 TiB, you can expand it without deallocating the VM.
 - Not supported for Ultra disks or Premium SSD v2 disks.
@@ -19,23 +18,4 @@
     - The [latest Azure PowerShell module](/powershell/azure/install-az-ps)
     - The [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com/)
     - Or an Azure Resource Manager template with an API version that's `2021-04-01` or newer.
-
-Use the following PowerShell script to determine which VM SKUs it's available with:
-
-```azurepowershell
-Connect-AzAccount
-$subscriptionId="yourSubID"
-$location="desiredRegion"
-Set-AzContext -Subscription $subscriptionId
-$vmSizes=Get-AzComputeResourceSku -Location $location | where{$_.ResourceType -eq 'virtualMachines'}
-
-foreach($vmSize in $vmSizes){
-    foreach($capability in $vmSize.Capabilities)
-    {
-       if(($capability.Name -eq "EphemeralOSDiskSupported" -and $capability.Value -eq "True") -or ($capability.Name -eq "PremiumIO" -and $capability.Value -eq "True") -or ($capability.Name -eq "HyperVGenerations" -and $capability.Value -match "V2"))
-        {
-            $vmSize.Name
-       }
-   }
-}
-```
+- Not available on some classic VMs. Use [this script](#expanding-without-downtime-classic-vm-sku-support) to get a list of classic VM SKUs that support expanding without downtime.