How to Resize Vultr Managed Databases for MySQL

1 min readUpdated 26 May 2026

Learn how to increase or decrease the resources allocated to your Vultr Managed MySQL database.

Resizing Vultr Managed Databases for MySQL allows you to scale your database resources as your data grows. Scaling up is useful if your current database plan can't handle your workload. Upsizing your managed database cluster adds more CPUs, RAM, storage, and replica nodes to provide a better experience to your end-users.

Follow this guide to resize Vultr Managed Databases for MySQL using Vultr Console, API, CLI, or Terraform.

Navigate to Products and select Databases.
Click the target database instance.
Navigate to Settings and click Change Plan.
Review the active plan, select a new plan, set replica nodes, and click Save.

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