Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

What's New in Exadata Fleet Update

Oracle is constantly adding new capabilities to Exadata Fleet Update service. This section provides a brief overview of new features as they are released.

Create or Patch a Collection of Targets with Oracle Database and Grid Infrastructure Version 23ai

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: September 18, 2024

Oracle Database 23ai is a regular production release available on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer (ExaDB-C@C) and Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure (ExaDB-D). With this release, you can perform all the lifecycle operations on the 23ai databases.

Patch a Fleet of Clusters with a Custom Grid Infrastructure Image

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: July 31, 2024

This enhancement allows you to:

  • Discover Grid Infrastructure targets using a specified custom Grid Infrastructure software image during Collection creation or while performing a Fleet Software Update Discovery search.
  • Specify a custom Grid Infrastructure software image as the goal version for a Maintenance Cycle.
  • Patch a fleet of clusters using the specified custom Grid Infrastructure software image.

Enable Incident Logs and Trace Collection

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: July 31, 2024

Enable diagnostics collection and notifications to help Oracle Cloud Operations and you identify, investigate, track, and resolve Exadata VM cluster issues quickly and effectively. Subscribe to Events to get notified about resource state changes. For more information, see Getting Started with Events.

Exadata Fleet Update

  • Services: Database
  • Release Date: August 02, 2023

Exadata Fleet Update simplifies, standardizes, and enhances the Oracle Database and Grid Infrastructure patching experience. Exadata Fleet Update achieves this by grouping components based on the customers' business needs into collections that can be patched as one entity within a given maintenance cycle.

Exadata Fleet Update brings this patching engine to OCI as a native cloud service, accessible from the OCI Console, OCI API, and via the OCI CLI.

Exadata Fleet Update is available free of charge on Oracle’s Exadata Database Service including Cloud@Customer (ExaDB-C@C) and Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure (ExaDB-D).

For more information, see: