Block Volume

58 Release Notes

SCSI UNMAP command support

Block Volume now supports using SCSI UNMAP commands to reclaim unused space with boot volumes and block volumes. This provides ...

Auto-tune Volume Performance

The Block Volume service now supports the automatic adjustment of a block volume or boot volume's elastic performance setting to ...

Block Volume elastic performance

  • Services: Block Volume
  • Release Date: November 14, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now dynamically change the volume performance of your block volumes and boot volumes with the Block Volume service's ...

Events for Block Volume

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Events service now supports block volumes, boot volumes, and volume groups (Block Volume service). For more ...

Volume groups

  • Services: Block Volume
  • Release Date: May 31, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now group together multiple block volumes in a volume group. For more information, see Volume Groups.

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32 TB volumes

  • Services: Block Volume
  • Release Date: May 31, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now create 32 TB volumes.

Boot volumes

  • Services: Block Volume
  • Release Date: November 15, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Now when you launch a virtual machine (VM) or bare metal instance based on an Oracle-provided image or custom image, ...

Cloned volumes

  • Services: Block Volume
  • Release Date: October 20, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now make a copy of an existing block volume without needing to go through the backup and restore ...

16 TB volumes

  • Services: Block Volume
  • Release Date: September 28, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now create 16 TB volumes.

Volume size

  • Services: Block Volume
  • Release Date: May 15, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

When creating a volume, you can select a size in 1 GB increments between 50 GB and 2 TB. The ...