Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Creating a Transfer Capacity Request

Transfer resources from a source tenancy to a destination tenancy.

You can place a request for transfer of capacity for a specific shape of hardware in a region and AD. However, the capacity expansion isn't demanded from the available resources in the catalog. Instead, it's based on what is already provisioned in the tenancy. The transfer request must include the source tenancy and target tenancy details with demanded resource quantity to the transferred or moved.

Source Tenancy: The customer tenancy from where the available capacity needs to be moved.

Target Tenancy: The customer tenancy to which the moved capacity is to be added.

As a customer, you can request for a capacity transfer for any one of the following reasons:
  • If you plan to optimize the usage of resources in source tenancy.
  • If you prefer to correct shortage of resource availability at the destination tenancy.
  • If you prefer to set up a temporary arrangement until resources under maintenance are available.
Note

In transfer capacity, the capacity isn't demanded from the availability catalog but based on the resources that are already provisioned in the source tenancy. Also, there must be an agreement between the source tenancy owner and target tenancy owner in moving the resources.

    1. On the Capacity Requests list page, select Create capacity requests. If you need help finding the list page, see Listing Capacity Requests.
    2. In the Create capacity request panel, provide the following details:
      1. Request Type: Select Request type as Transfer.
      2. Namespace: Select Compute as the namespace for the capacity request.
      3. Region: Select a region.
      4. Description: Provide a description for the capacity request.
      5. Expected capacity handover date: Use the date picker and select an expected capacity handover date.
    3. Under Transfer request, select one of the following options:
      • Fill request manually: Select this option to manually provide the following details for each resource that requires to be transferred from one tenancy to another.
        • Resource name: Name of the resource that you prefer to transfer from a source to a target tenancy.
        • Source tenancy: The customer tenancy from which the available capacity has to be moved.
        • Target tenancy: The customer tenancy to which the moved capacity is to be added.
        • Transfer quantity:
        • Availability domain:
      • Upload request CSV: Select this option to update a CSV with all the resources to be transferred from one tenancy to another.
        1. Click Download blank CSV.
        2. Fill the capacity transfer details for all resources and save the file.
        3. Under Drop file, either drop the saved CSV file or click select one to browse and upload the saved CSV file.
    4. (Optional) Tag the new capacity request.
      • Tag namespace: To add a defined tag, select an existing namespace. If you're adding a free-from tag, leave this field blank.
      • Tag key: To add a defined tag, select an existing tag key. To add a free-form tag, type the key name that you want.
      • Tag value: Type the tag value that you want.
    5. To submit the request immediately, select Create and Submit.
      Note

      After you submit, OCI creates and assigns a name to the request and you can view the request details in the Capacity requests summary table.
    6. Select Create and submit the request post creation.
    7. On the Capacity requests page, select the name of the new transfer capacity request you created to view the details.

  • This task can't be performed using the CLI.

  • This task can't be performed using the API.