Higher Performance Storage and AMD Standard E4 Flex Shapes are now available for Oracle Database Service

AMD Standard E4 Flex Shapes and Higher Performance Storage is now available for Oracle Database Service.

This blog post by Tammy Bednar Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle highlights these exciting new additions to the already expansive array of features boasted by Oracle Database Cloud Service.

This blog post summarizes already available features within the Oracle Database Cloud Service.

• Flexible Provisioning of Compute Resources
• Higher Performance Storage for Greater Throughput & IOPS
• Scaling your Database VM System
• Develop and Deploy Database Applications in OCI

Enjoy this blog post announcing these exciting new capabilities available for Oracle Database Cloud Service.

Cheers.

Now Available: In-Place Upgrade for Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS) VM DB Systems

Now Available: In-Place Upgrade for Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS) VM DB Systems.

There is a very good blog post by Pravin Jha and Sebastian Solbach at Oracle announcing the In-Place Upgrade General Availability for Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS) VM DB Systems.

Here is a quick recap.

• You can now perform an in-place upgrade keeping the characteristics of your existing Oracle VM DB System e.g. SCAN Name, SCAN IPs, private IP addresses, and hostnames remain the same throughout the upgrade process.
• You can now upgrade Oracle Linux version from OL6 to OL7.
• You can upgrade the Grid Infrastructure to the latest or the previous GI 19c version (N-1).
• You can upgrade with minimal downtime in approximately 2 hours using cloning technology.
• You can fallback to a snapshot if a roll back is required.
• OCI console experience.

Enjoy this blog post announcing the In-Place Upgrade General Availability for Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS) VM DB Systems.

Cheers.