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tdickieson
May 06, 2020Copper Contributor
VM Disk Size
Hi Folks! I'm curious if there is a way to increase the default disk size or add additional disks for Lab VMs? Some of our software packages are quite large! I haven't seem mention of this in th...
- May 26, 2020
tdickieson - One thing that I want to point out is that there is a general paradigm shift when you switch from a physical lab to using Azure Lab Services. A key difference is that Azure Lab Services is designed to spin up and tear down labs quickly as your needs change - typically, we recommend that you have 1 lab per class so that you only need to install the software for that one particular class and then when the class is over, you tear it down again. This is different compared to a physical lab that is shared by multiple classes and that requires all classes' software be installed at the same time. In most cases, if you create 1 lab per class, this typically reduces the amount of software that must be installed at one time within the lab and then reduces disk size needs. However, there are sometimes exceptions that a particular piece of software requires a larger disk size - if you have this situation, let us know.
ErwinManuel
May 08, 2020Brass Contributor
I believe the feature is coming as we've asked for this too. But there's no ETA yet.
So for now you're stuck with the default 128GB.
- pwahlmuellerMar 03, 2021MVPWhat could also help: compress the hard disk with NTFS compression.