Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

About Scaling

If you subscribe to Oracle Analytics Cloud through Universal Credits and your service performs poorly, you can scale up the number of Oracle Compute Units (OCPUs) allocated to the service to improve performance. To save costs or if your workload is reduced, you might scale down. Similarly, if you set up Oracle Analytics Cloud to support a specific number of users and your user requirements change, you can scale the number of users up or down.

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You can scale your Oracle Analytics Cloud environment up and down within the OCPU range (or user range) available to your service (see table) and within the overall service limit for your tenancy (see Service Limits). Users don't experience any downtime when you scale a service up or down; the service stays up and running. Users might experience a reduction in performance for about 60 minutes during scale operations.

  • Scale the Number of OCPUs

    With Universal Credits, you can scale up and down between 1 and 16 OCPUs.

    Current OCPUs OCPU Range Scale Up within Range? Scale Down within Range?
    (Incremental + increase) (Incremental - decrease)
    1 (non-production) 1 - 16 Yes (+1, +3, +5, +7, +9, +11, +15) No (minimum for this range)
    2 1 - 16 Yes (+2, +4, +6, +8, +10, +14) Yes (-1)
    4 1 - 16 Yes (+2, +4, +6, +8, +12) Yes (-2, -3)
    6 1 - 16 Yes (+2, +4, +6, +10) Yes (-2, -4, -5)
    8 1 - 16 Yes (+2, +4, +8) Yes (-2, -4, -6, -7)
    10* 1 - 16 Yes (+2, +4) Yes (-2, -4, -6, -8, -9)
    12* 1 - 16 Yes (+4) Yes (-2, -4, -6, -8,-10, -11)
    16 1 - 16 No (maximum for this range) Yes (-4, -6, -8, -10, -12, -14, -15)
    24 24 No No
    36 36 No No
    52 52 No No

    * If you created your Oracle Analytics Cloud instance with 10 - 12 OCPUs before August 2024, you can only scale between 10 – 12 OCPUs. In this case, if you want to scale between 1 – 16 OCPUS, you must create a service instance with the OCPUs that you want and migrate your content to the new service. See Migrate Oracle Analytics Cloud Using Snapshots.

  • Scale the Number of Users

    With Universal Credits, you can size your service based on the number of users you expect to use Oracle Analytics Cloud. If your user requirements increase or decrease, you can scale within specific user ranges.

    Minimum Users Maximum Users
    10 400
    401 600
    601 900
    901 1400
    1401 2200
    2201 3000

    For example, if you currently subscribe with 200 users, you can increase to 400 or decrease to 10. If you want to scale across these ranges (for example, scale up from 300 to 500 or scale down from 500 to 300), you must create a service instance with the number of users that you want and migrate your content to the new service.