Elastic Compute Expansion enables the addition of an arbitrary number of DB Servers to Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure. In conjunction with the previously released Elastic Storage Expansion feature, new infrastructure installations can now be better customized by provisioning a discrete number of DB Servers and Storage Servers. Also, compute capacity for the existing infrastructure deployments can now be expanded by adding individual DB Servers in a manner similar to Elastic Storage Expansion.

In addition, significant changes have been made to the VM Cluster Network object to facilitate the ability to subset network resources to certain DB Servers.

Follow the links below for instructions on how to provision infrastructure and activate. Once the DB Servers are activated, they are recognized and available for use immediately, but the additional resources need to be added to your VM Clusters. This is not done automatically. First, add VM Cluster Network resources and then you can add additional VMs to your VM Clusters, following the instructions in the links below.

For more information, see:

• Using the Console to Create Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer Infrastructure
• Using the Console to Download a File Containing Configuration Data
• Using the Console to Activate Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer Infrastructure
• Using the Console to Create a VM Cluster Network
• Using the Console to Validate a VM Cluster Network
• Using the Console to Scale Infrastructure Compute and Storage
• Using the Console to Download Scale Infrastructure Compute and Storage Configuration File
• Using the Console to Activate New Database and Storage Servers
• Using the Console to Add Another DB Server to the VM Cluster Network
• Using the Console to Add VMs to a Provisioned Cluster
• Using the Console to Remove a VM from a VM Cluster
• Using the Console to Remove DB Servers from a VM Cluster Network
• Using the Console to Edit a VM Cluster Network
• Using the Console to Make Storage Capacity from New Server Available for VM Clusters Consumption
• Using the Console to View Details of Exadata Cloud@Customer Infrastructure with Scaled Compute and Storage Capacity
• Compute Expansion Event Types