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Resizing a virtual machine using 3Engines Horizon on 3Engines Cloud[🔗](#resizing-a-virtual-machine-using-3Engines-horizon-on-brand-name "Permalink to this headline")
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Introduction[🔗](#introduction "Permalink to this headline")
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When creating a new virtual machine under 3Engines, one of the options you choose is the *flavor*. A flavor is a predefined combination of CPU, memory and disk size and there usually is a number of such flavors for you to choose from.
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After the instance is spawned, it is possible to change one flavor for another, and that process is called *resizing*. You might want to resize an already existing VM in order to:
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> * increase (or decrease) the number of CPUs used,
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> * use more RAM to prevent crashes or enable swapping,
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> * add larger storage to avoid running out of disk space,
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> * seamlessly transition from testing to production environment,
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> * change application workload byt scaling the VM up or down.
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In this article, we are going to resize VMs using commands in 3Engines Horizon.
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Prerequisites[🔗](#prerequisites "Permalink to this headline")
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No. 1 **Account**
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You need a 3Engines Cloud hosting account with access to the Horizon interface: <https://portal.3Engines.com/>.
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No. 2 **How to create a new VM**
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If you are a normal user of 3Engines Cloud hosting, you will have all prerogatives needed to resize the VM. Make sure that the VM you are about to resize belongs to a project you have access to. Here are the basics of creating a Linux VM in Horizon:
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[How to create a Linux VM and access it from Linux command line on 3Engines Cloud](How-to-create-a-Linux-VM-and-access-it-from-Linux-command-line-on-3Engines-Cloud.html.md)
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[How to create a Linux VM and access it from Windows desktop on 3Engines Cloud](How-to-create-a-Linux-VM-and-access-it-from-Windows-desktop-on-3Engines-Cloud.html.md)
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No. 3 **Awareness of existing quotas and flavors limits**
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For general introduction to quotas and flavors, see [Dashboard Overview – Project Quotas And Flavors Limits on 3Engines Cloud](Dashboard-Overview-Project-Quotas-And-Flavors-Limits-on-3Engines-Cloud.html.md).
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Also:
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> * The VM you want to resize is in an active or shut down state.
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> * A flavor with the desired resource configuration exists.
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> * Adequate resources are available in your 3Engines environment to accommodate the resize.
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Creating a new VM[🔗](#creating-a-new-vm "Permalink to this headline")
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To illustrate the commands in this article, let us create a new VM in order to start with a clean slate. (It goes without saying that you can practice with any of the already existing VMs in your account.)
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Use Prerequisite No. 2 to create a new VM and let it be called **Resizing**. Here is a typical list of flavors you might see:
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For the sake of this article, let us choose a “middle” flavor – not too large and not to small to start with. Let it be **eo2a.large**.
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Finish the process of creating a new VM and let it spawn:
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Let us now resize the VM called **Resizing**.
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Steps to Resize the VM[🔗](#steps-to-resize-the-vm "Permalink to this headline")
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Locate the VM by using Horizon commands **Compute** -> **Instances**.
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Click the dropdown arrow next to the VM and select **Resize Instance**.
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You get form **Resize Instance** on screen:
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Assuming you wanted to scale up the VM, you could decide upon **eo2.xlarge**. Let us compare the two flavors:
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| Flavor | VCPUs | RAM | Total Disk | Root Disk |
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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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| eo2a.large | 2 | 7.45 GB | 32 GB | 32 GB |
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| eo2.xlarge | 4 | 16 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB |
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So, select **eo2.xlarge** as the new flavor. This screen shows its parameters:
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Advanced Options[🔗](#advanced-options "Permalink to this headline")
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**Advanced Options** tab contains two further options for resizing the instance.
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Disk Partition
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: Whether the entire disc is a single partition and automatically resizes.
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Options are **Automatic** and **Manual**
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Server Group
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: Here you select server group to which the instance can belong after resizing. Even if you never manually created a server group, they may be present as a consequence of creating Kubernete clusters, or using parameters for group affinity.
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The list can be quite long:
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Resize the VM[🔗](#resize-the-vm "Permalink to this headline")
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Anyways, click on **Resize** to proceed with the resizing of the VM.
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In **Status** column, there will be message **Confirm or Revert Resize/Migrate**. It means the system is waiting for you to decide what to do next. To confirm the resizing/migrating process, click on button **Confirm Resize/Migrate** in the **Actions** column.
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The resizing process will finish within a couple of seconds and the VM will be in **Status** Active.
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If you encounter issues, you can choose **Revert Resize** to return the VM to its previous state. This option is, however, only available before **Resize/Migration Confirmation**.
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Or, if the resizing is finished, you can again use option **Resize instance** and choose the flavor from which you started (**eo2a.large** in this case). This process of scaling down is much faster than the process of scaling up.
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Troubleshooting[🔗](#troubleshooting "Permalink to this headline")
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If any of the flavor parameters does not match up, the resizing will fail.
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You will then see balloon help in the right upper corner:
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In this case, the sizes of the disk before and after the resizing do not match.
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What To Do Next[🔗](#what-to-do-next "Permalink to this headline")
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You can also resize the virtual machine using only 3Engines CLI. More details here: [Resizing a virtual machine using 3Engines CLI on 3Engines Cloud](../3Enginescli/Resizing-a-virtual-machine-using-3Engines-CLI-on-3Engines-Cloud.html.md) |