Change disc type

In MCS it is possible to change the disc type to any of the available ones.

To do this, the disk must be detached from the instance and the disk should not have any snapshots.

Unmounting the root disk can be done at the same time as replacing it with another (temporary) root disk .

MCS control panel

To change the disc type in your MCS account, you should:

Go to the Disks page of the Cloud Computing service.
In the context menu of the disc, select "Change disc type":
Select a new disk type from the drop-down list, click "Confirm":
The conversion process will start. The duration of the process depends on the size and type of disc.

To change the disk type in the OpenStack client:

Get a list of disks:

 $ openstack volume list --long

Get a list of disk types:

 $ openstack volume type list

Send command to change type:

 $ openstack volume set --type <type ID> --retype-policy on-demand <disk ID>