Below are the major new updates in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Gen2 Platform.
Base Database: Backup and restore from a standby database in a Data Guard association for Autonomous Recovery Service
You can now backup and restore from a standby database in a Data Guard association for the Autonomous Recovery Service.
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: 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 certified in the customer environment will allow developers and database administrators to build an approved and reusable “gold image”.
Full Stack Disaster Recovery introduces Pause group
Full Stack Disaster Recovery introduces pause group.
In any type of DR Plan, you can now add one or more execution pauses using pause groups. You can add pause groups after the Built In Prechecks and before the last plan group. See Add a Pause Group in a Plan Group for more information.
Manage Serial Console Access to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure Systems
Note: The serial console feature requires (at a minimum) Exadata System Software 23.1.13. Once the necessary software is installed via Quarterly Maintenance and a reboot of your VMs takes place, you will be able to use the new serial console feature.
You can create and delete serial console connections to your Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure systems to diagnose and resolve VM guest operating system issues using an SSH connection in case standard SSH access to the VMs is not possible.
Requirements: Exadata System Software 23.1.13 is the minimum required version. Also, make sure to review all prerequisites stated below, including setting a password for either the opc or the root user. Failure to make necessary changes to meet these requirements in advance will result in the inability to urgently connect to the serial console when the need arises when the VM is not otherwise accessible.
Downscale OpenSearch Clusters with Vertical Resizing
OCI Search with OpenSearch now supports downscaling a cluster with vertical resizing. You can decrease the memory and OCPU resources for a cluster’s leader nodes, data nodes, and OpenSearch Dashboard nodes.
For more information see the following:
- Resizing an OpenSearch Cluster
- Considerations with Scaling Down Cluster Settings
- Vertically Resizing an OpenSearch Cluster
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 certified in the customer environment will allow developers and database administrators to build an approved and reusable “gold image”.
General Availability of Boot Volume Replacement for Virtual Machine Instance
Today we are thrilled to announce the general availability of Boot Volume Replacement for Virtual Machine Instance! This feature allows customers to restore their existing instance from a boot volume or golden boot volume with a simple API call without terminating the instance. This is an efficient way to manage and restore instances at scale and reduces the chance of manual errors.
Feature Summary and Benefits
- Simplified process to restore or upgrade existing instances from a golden image or boot volume with a few clicks or an API call
- Quickest way to fix issues while retaining data stored on attached data volumes and network configuration
- Eliminate the operational burden to upgrade Operating Systems at a large scale
- Cost-efficient transfer of instances between application teams with a fresh state
- Reduce the long recycle time to relaunch new instances
Support for Migrating OS Management Instances to OS Management Hub
Oracle OS Management Hub (formerly OS Management) is the next-generation management solution for your operating system environments. Use a centralized management console to manage updates and patches for instances in OCI, private data centers, or supported third-party cloud environments.
OS Management Hub now provides a migration assistant to help you migrate OS Management managed instances to OS Management Hub. The migration assistant provides a set of utilities to assist you with each stage of migrating instances from OS Management to OS Management Hub. For more information, see Migrating OS Management Instances to OS Management Hub.
Base Database: Oracle Database 23ai is available on Base Database Service
Oracle Database 23ai is a regular production release available on Base Database Service. With this release, you can perform all the lifecycle operations on the 23ai database.
Oracle Database 23ai on Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
Oracle Database 23ai is a regular production release available on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure (ExaDB-D). With this release, you can perform all the lifecycle operations on the 23ai databases.
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, you can perform all the lifecycle operations on the 23ai databases.
Oracle GoldenGate 23ai is now available in OCI GoldenGate
Oracle GoldenGate 23ai is now available in OCI GoldenGate for Oracle Database and PostgreSQL. Learn more.
Support for Network Security Groups (NSG)
You can now optionally use network security groups (NSGs) to implement the security rules that control the inbound and outbound traffic between your Oracle Database and Recovery Service. In the OCI console, you can use options to add a Recovery Service subnet to the Recovery Service NSGs configured in the database VCN.
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