Increasing file system storage capacity - Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Increasing file system storage capacity

You can increase your FSx for Windows File Server file system's storage capacity as your storage requirements change. Use the Amazon FSx console, the AWS CLI, or the Amazon FSx API to increase a file system's storage capacity as described in the following procedures. For more information, see Managing storage capacity.

  1. Open the Amazon FSx console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/fsx/.

  2. Navigate to File systems and choose the Windows file system that you want to increase storage capacity for.

  3. For Actions, choose Update storage. Or, in the Summary panel, choose Update next to the file system's Storage capacity.

    The Update storage capacity window appears.

  4. For Input type, choose Percentage to enter the new storage capacity as a percentage change from the current value, or choose Absolute to enter the new value in GiB.

  5. Enter the Desired storage capacity.

    Note

    The desired capacity value must be at least 10 percent larger than the current value, up to the maximum value of 65,536 GiB.

  6. Choose Update to initiate the storage capacity update.

  7. You can monitor the update progress on the File systems detail page, in the Updates tab.

To increase the storage capacity for an FSx for Windows File Server file system, use the AWS CLI command update-file-system. Set the following parameters:

  • --file-system-id to the ID of the file system you are updating.

  • --storage-capacity to a value that is at least 10 percent greater than the current value.

You can monitor the progress of the update by using the AWS CLI command describe-file-systems. Look for the administrative-actions in the output.

For more information, see AdministrativeAction.