Database: Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
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Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Ability to Increase the Size of Guest VM Local File Systems
Currently, you can only increase or decrease the size of the /u02
file system in the Guest VM. Now, using ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Create and Use Custom Software Images 🔗
The ability to create a custom software image (Database and Grid Infrastructure) with all the required patches bundled together and ...
Oracle Database 23ai on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer 🔗
Oracle Database 23ai is a regular production release available on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer (ExaDB-C@C). With this release, ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Enhancements to Serial Console Functionality 🔗
These new features include:
- Serial Console access via OCI Cloud Shell
- Console History
With this ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Provision a VM Cluster with Either an OL7 or OL8-Based Image 🔗
With this enhancement, you can provision a VM cluster with either an OL7-based image or an OL8-based one if the ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: VM Cluster on a Single VM 🔗
With this enhancement, you can deploy and run multiple databases in a VM cluster running on a single VM without ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Enhancement to Pluggable Database (PDB) Management 🔗
With this enhancement, you can restore, refresh, and relocate a Pluggable Database (PDB).
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Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Manage Administrator (SYS User) and TDE Wallet Passwords 🔗
With this enhancement, you can manage the administrator and TDE wallet passwords.
Note: Changing a TDE wallet password for ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Update Guest VM (domU) Operating System to Oracle Linux 8 🔗
Update the Guest VM operating system to Oracle Linus 8 using the Console or API. This enhancement is limited to ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Exadata Fleet Update 🔗
Exadata Fleet Update simplifies, standardizes, and enhances the Oracle Database and Grid Infrastructure patching experience. Exadata Fleet Update achieves this ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Oracle Key Vault (OKV) Integration with ExaDB-C@C to Manage Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Keys 🔗
Integrate your on-premises Oracle Key Vault (OKV) with Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer to secure your critical data on-premises. ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: X10M-2 System Support 🔗
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer has been extended to support X10M-2 system.
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Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Manage Serial Console Access to ExaDB-C@C Systems 🔗
Note
The Serial Console Access feature has been rolled out only to the YNY
region. It will be rolled out ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Manual Software Updates 🔗
This feature enables cloud-only customers to download one-off patches from the OCI console and API. There is no option to ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) Support for Client and Backup Networks 🔗
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer physical networks (client and backup) are configured to use active-backup by default. This mode ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: VM Cluster and Database Health and Performance Metrics in the OCI Console 🔗
With this release, Oracle will provide health and performance metrics for databases and VM clusters in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Enable Data Guard with Database Software Image (Custom Image) 🔗
If you have provisioned DB Homes with a Database Software Image (DSI), then enabling Data Guard operations will default to ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Use Identity and Access Management (IAM) Authentication with Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer 🔗
You can configure Oracle Database on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer system to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Create Data Guard Associations Across Regions 🔗
Create Data Guard associations across regions within your tenancy. This will help you implement an effective disaster recovery plan to ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Multi-Rack Elastic Compute and Storage Expansion 🔗
For certain deployments, you may want to expand beyond the maximum number of compute and storage servers supported within a ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Automatic Diagnostic Collection 🔗
This feature extends the Database Service Events feature implementation that enables you to get notified about health issues with your ...
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Elastic Compute Expansion 🔗
Elastic Compute Expansion enables the addition of an arbitrary number of DB Servers to Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure. In conjunction with ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Oracle Standard Tagging for Resources on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer 🔗
Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer resources can now be tagged using Oracle Standard tags according to your organizational scheme. By ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Monthly ExaDB-C@C Infrastructure Security Maintenance 🔗
Security maintenance, performed alongside the quarterly maintenance, is executed once a month and includes fixes for vulnerabilities with CVSS scores ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Enhanced Control to Rollback or Retry Failed Guest VM Operating System Update 🔗
You need not mandatorily roll back if applying the Guest VM operating system update fails. A new option, in addition ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Support for DB Home Minor Version Selection (N-3) 🔗
Provision a DB Home using a major version and RU version of your choice.
While provisioning, if you opt ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: VM Guest Exadata OS Image Major Version Update 🔗
In addition to performing minor version updates to the Exadata VM Cluster Images, you can now update to a new ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Database Service Events 🔗
Database Service Events feature implementation enables you to get notified about health issues with your Oracle Databases or other components ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Control Plane Server (CPS) Offline Diagnostic Report 🔗
Control Plane Server (CPS) offline diagnostic report assists you in troubleshooting connectivity issues between the CPS and OCI endpoints.
...Exadata Cloud@Customer: Enhanced Infrastructure Maintenance Controls 🔗
The Exadata Cloud@Customer Oracle-managed infrastructure maintenance now allows greater control and visibility including:
- Choice of rolling and non-rolling ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Pluggable Database (PDB) Lifecycle Management 🔗
Create and manage pluggable databases (PDBs) in Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer systems using the Console and APIs.
For more information, ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Allow Customers to Choose Data Guard Type 🔗
Select a Data Guard type, Active Data Guard or Data Guard, based on the Oracle Database software license type you ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Specify the Same SID for Primary and Standby Databases in a Data Guard Association 🔗
The same SID prefix used for the primary database can now also be used for the standby database when creating ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: VM Cluster Node Subsetting 🔗
VM Cluster Node Subsetting enables you to allocate a subset of database servers to new and existing VM clusters to ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: X9M-2 System Support 🔗
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer comes in different infrastructure shapes to support workloads of different sizes. In this release, the capability of ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Creating DG Association/Standby Database Using Existing Database Home 🔗
Select an existing Database Home or create a new one for the standby while enabling Data Guard association.
For ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure on an Exadata Cloud@Customer VM Cluster 🔗
Upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure (GI) on an Exadata Cloud@Customer VM cluster using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or APIs.
...Exadata Cloud@Customer: Update Guest VM Operating System 🔗
Update the operating system image on Exadata Cloud@Customer VM cluster nodes in an automated manner from the OCI console and ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Upgrade Oracle Databases 🔗
Upgrade Oracle Database 19c (Long Term Release) using the Console and the APIs.
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Exadata Cloud@Customer: Download Network Validation Report 🔗
Validate and inspect the network validation failure report without active involvement from Oracle Cloud Ops in troubleshooting networking configuration issues. ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Elastic Storage Expansion 🔗
With elastic storage expansion, you can dynamically increase your storage capacity to meet your growing workload requirements.
Expand the ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Oracle Database Software Images 🔗
Database software images enable you to create a customized Oracle Database software configuration that includes your chosen updates (PSU, RU, ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Infrastructure Patching Automation 🔗
You can now schedule a maintenance window for Oracle-managed Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure patching.
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Exadata Cloud@Customer: Customer Maintenance Contacts 🔗
Maintenance contacts are required for service request based communications for hardware replacement and other maintenance events.
Add a primary ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Enable and Manage Data Guard Associations 🔗
Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data.
Enable a Data Guard association ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: X8M-2 System Support 🔗
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer comes in different infrastructure shapes to support workloads of different sizes. In this release, the capability of ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Deployment Assistant 🔗
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer Deployment Assistant is an automated installation and configuration tool that enables you to set up your Oracle ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database Patching 🔗
You can now view, pre-check, and apply Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database patches by using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Per-Second Billing for OCPU Usage 🔗
Exadata Cloud@Customer Gen2 uses per-second billing for OCPUs. This means that OCPU usage is billed by the second, with a ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Shared Database Home Resource Tags 🔗
You can now add, update, and remove tags applied to a shared Database Home resource.
For more information, see: ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Create and Manage Multiple Virtual Machines per Exadata System (MultiVM) 🔗
Slice Exadata resources into multiple virtual machines. Define up to 8 multiple virtual machines (VM) clusters on an Oracle Exadata ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Scale OCPUs Without Cloud Connectivity 🔗
Exadata Cloud@Customer is considered to be in a "disconnected" mode when there is a loss of connectivity with the Database ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Configure Oracle Database Character Set and National Character Set 🔗
Before you create the database, decide the character set that you want to use.
After a database is created, ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Specify a Time Zone While Provisioning Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer Infrastructure 🔗
The default time zone for the Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure is UTC. The time is displayed in the UTC format ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: Shared Database Homes 🔗
Use a single Oracle Home for multiple databases. Besides saving space, sharing an Oracle Database Home with multiple databases provides ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: X7-2 System Support 🔗
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer comes in different infrastructure shapes to support workloads of different sizes. In this release, the capability of ...