As your business expands and application data grows, you may run out of disk space. To address this, you can increase the capacity of your system and data disks for additional storage space. This topic covers disk size expansion, including its limits, pricing, and methods.
Background information
About disks
By default, Enterprise Office and General Office cloud computers provided by Elastic Desktop Service (EDS) use ultra disks. Enterprise Graphics, Graphics, and High Frequency cloud computers use Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs). The performance levels (PLs) of the disks are consistent with those in the cloud computer templates. For more information about disks, see Disk categories. If you want to change the PLs of disks, see Change the PL of an ESSD.
Limits
You can only increase the disk capacity. Once increased, the disk capacity cannot be decreased. We recommend planning your storage needs carefully.
Disk capacity can only be increased in 10 GiB increments. The maximum capacity for a system disk is 500 GiB, while a data disk can be increased up to 2,040 GiB.
NoteNoteThe default maximum capacity of a data disk is 2,040 GiB. To increase the limit to 65,530 GiB (approximately 64 TiB), submit a ticket.
Billing rules
You are charged a unit price for the additional disk capacity when you resize the disks of a cloud computer. For more information, see Billable items.
Subscription cloud computers: You must pay for the incremental capacity based on the remaining subscription duration.
Pay-as-you-go cloud computers: The increase immediately takes effect, and you are charged based on the new capacity immediately after the increase.
Prerequisites
The cloud computer for which you want to increase the disk capacity is in the Running or Stopped state.
Your data on the cloud computer is backed up. This prevents data loss in case of increase failures. We recommend that you create snapshots for the cloud computer in advance. For more information, see Use snapshots (public preview).
Increase the disk capacity for a single cloud computer
Log on to the EDS Enterprise console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
In the upper-left corner of the top navigation bar, select a region.
On the Cloud Computers page, find the cloud computer for which you want to increase the disk capacity, click the ⋮ icon in the Actions column, and then click Increase Disk Size.
In the Increase Disk Size panel, perform the following operations based on the billing method of the cloud computer:
Subscription cloud computer
In the Target Disk Size section, specify the desired capacity for the system disk and data disk, and click OK.
In the message that appears, click OK.
On the Purchase page, click Subscribe and complete the payment.
Pay-as-you-go cloud computer
Specify the desired capacity for the system disk and data disk, and click OK.
In the message that appears, click OK.
During the capacity increase event, the cloud computer is in the Upgrading state on the Cloud Computers page. When the status of the cloud computer changes from Upgrading to Running or Stopped (the previous state), the increase is complete.
Increase the disk capacity for multiple cloud computers
In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
In the upper-left corner of the top navigation bar, select a region.
On the Cloud Computers page, select the cloud computers for which you want to scale up disks, and choose in the lower part of the page.
In the Specify Disk Size step on the Increase Disk Size panel, select the billing method used by the cloud computers, select the qualified cloud computers, and then click Next.
NoteIf you want to increase the disk capacity for multiple cloud computers at a time, make sure that they are on the same billing method. Therefore, if the cloud computers you selected in the previous step have different billing methods, you need to increase the disk capacity for them separately.
In the Confirm Disk Size step, perform one of the following operations based on your business requirements and click Confirm.
At the same time: If you want to increase the disk capacity for all the selected cloud computers to the same size, select Specify Disk Size and configure the New System Disk Capacity and New Data Disk Capacity parameters.
Separately: If you want to increase the disk capacity for all the selected cloud computers to different sizes, specify new sizes for each cloud computer in the displayed table.
In the message that appears, click OK.
(Conditional) If the selected cloud computers are subscription cloud computers, click Subscribe on the Purchase page and complete the payment as prompted.
During the capacity increase event, cloud computers are in the Upgrading state on the Cloud Computers page. When their status change from Upgrading to Running or Stopped (the previous state), the increase is complete.