{"id":20405,"date":"2017-09-01T13:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=20405"},"modified":"2017-08-31T17:31:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:31:37","slug":"azure-vm-sizes-missing-when-resizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=20405","title":{"rendered":"Azure VM Sizes Missing When Resizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are resizing a running virtual machine, you might find that many sizes are not available. There is a workaround \u2013 shut the VM down! Here\u2019s how I resized the Azure virtual machine that hosts this site, which started the day as an A2_v2 virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image_thumb3.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"550\" height=\"147\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First, I powered down the VM in the Azure Portal. Then I browsed to Size. All of the possible sizes were presented to me then. 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