Modifying Specifications

Scenario

If the current specifications of your elastic resource pool do not meet your service needs, you can modify them using the change specifications function.

Scaling Up

  1. In the navigation pane on the left of the console, choose Resources > Resource Pool.

  2. Select the elastic resource pool you want and choose More > Modify Specifications in the Operation column.

  3. In the Modify Specifications dialog page, set Operation to Scale-out and specify the number of CUs you want to add.

  4. Confirm the changes and click OK.

  5. Choose Job Management > SQL Jobs to view the status of the SCALE_POOL SQL job.

    If the job status is Scaling, the elastic resource pool is scaling up. Wait until the job status changes to Finished.

Scaling Down

Note

By default, the minimum number of CUs is 16. That is, when the specifications of an elastic resource pool are 16 CUs, you cannot scale the pool down.

  1. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Resources > Resource Pool.

  2. Select the elastic resource pool you want and choose More > Modify Specifications in the Operation column.

  3. In the Modify Specifications dialog page, set Operation to Scale-in and specify the number of CUs you want to add.

  4. Confirm the changes and click OK.

  5. Choose Job Management > SQL Jobs to view the status of the SCALE_POOL SQL job.

    If the job status is Scaling, the elastic resource pool is scaling down. Wait until the job status changes to Finished.