Maarten Balliauw • 1/7/2013

Tales from the trenches: resizing a Windows Azure virtual disk the smooth way

This article details a method for resizing a full virtual disk on Windows Azure VMs without the typical lengthy process of downloading, resizing locally, and re-uploading the VHD. It explores the VHD file format structure, explains how to leverage Azure Storage's byte-range operations to directly modify the disk footer, and provides a faster, programmatic alternative. Includes disclaimers and a link to code on GitHub.

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