Database: Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
51 Release Notes
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Use the Same Custom Software Image Across OCI Regions
With this enhancement, you can use the software image created in one region in a different region while:
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Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Enhancement to Pluggable Database (PDB) Management
With this enhancement, you can restore, refresh, and relocate a Pluggable Database (PDB).
For more information, see:
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Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: 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 ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Backup and Restore from a Standby Database in a Data Guard Environment
With this enhancement, you can:
- Enables customers to offload backups to the standby database in a Data Guard ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Cancel a Running Full or Incremental Backup
You now have the ability to cancel an ongoing backup, allowing you to free up system resources. You will no ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Autonomous Recovery Service as the Default Backup Destination
This Console enhancement provides default limits automatically for a select subset of regions GRU
(Sao Paulo), VCP
(Vinhedo), YUL
(Montreal), ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Exadata Fleet Update
Exadata Fleet Update simplifies, standardizes, and enhances the Oracle Database and Grid Infrastructure patching experience. Exadata Fleet Update achieves this ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: 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 ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Interim Software Updates
This feature enables cloud-only customers to download one-off patches from the OCI console and API. There is no option to ...
Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure: Enhanced Controls to Configure Automatic Full (L0) and Incremental (L1) Backups
Enabling Automatic Backup during the Create Database workflow or as a separate step afterward starts the first full backup ("initial ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Configure Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service as a Backup Destination
Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service provides an optimized policy-driven automatic backup and recovery system for the Exadata Database on Dedicated ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Application VIP Support
The VM Cluster now supports attaching and detaching Application Virtual IP Addresses.
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Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Monthly ExaDB-D Infrastructure Security Maintenance
Security maintenance, performed alongside the quarterly maintenance, is executed once a month and includes fixes for vulnerabilities with CVSS scores ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Identity and Access Management (IAM) Integration with Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
With the latest Release Update, you can now configure the database in a virtual machine cluster to use Oracle Cloud ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure Active Directory Integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Databases
Oracle Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure now can accept Azure AD tokens to access the database. Azure AD users can ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Private DNS
Allow users to choose the private view and private zone while provisioning a new VM cluster for ExaCS. All the ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Enhanced Infrastructure Maintenance Controls
The Exadata Cloud Infrastructure Oracle-managed infrastructure maintenance now allows greater control and visibility including:
- Choice of rolling and ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Database Management Support for Pluggable Databases in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
You can now enable Database Management for Pluggable Databases (PDBs) on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, and use ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Create and Manage Multiple Virtual Machines per Exadata System (MultiVM) and VM Cluster Node Subsetting
Slice Exadata resources into multiple virtual machines. Define up to 8 multiple virtual machines (VM) clusters on an Oracle Exadata ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: VM Cluster and Database Health and Performance Metrics in the OCI Console
With this release, Oracle will provide health metrics for databases and VM clusters in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) console. ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Oracle Standard Tagging for Resources on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
Exadata Cloud Infrastructure resources can now be tagged using Oracle Standard tags according to your organizational scheme. By tagging resources, ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Automatic Diagnostic Collection
This feature extends the Database Service Events feature implementation that enables you to get notified about health issues with your ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Key Management Service for Cross Region Data Guard
You can now have the encryption keys used for the primary and standby databases to be available in the primary ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Concurrently Create or Terminate Oracle Databases in a VM Cluster
With this enhancement, you can now concurrently create or terminate Oracle databases even if the VM cluster is in the ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: VM Guest Exadata OS Image Major Version Update
In addition to performing minor version updates to the Exadata VM Cluster images, you can update to a new major ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Database Service Events capability for Exadata Database
This feature allows customers to use OCI Console or API/CLI/SDK/Terraform to receive event notifications about health issues with your Oracle ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: 'Create database from backup' now available for databases using customer-managed encryption
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure (ExaDB-D): Now allows you to create a database from backup, when the backup ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Support for DB Home Minor Version Selection (N-3) Services: Database
Provision a DB Home using a major version and RU version of your choice.
While provisioning, if you opt ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations Insights Support for Oracle Cloud Databases
Operations Insights now allows you to use the Capacity Planning and SQL Warehouse functionality to gain insight into Oracle Databases ...
Exadata Database on Dedicated Infrastructure: Specify the Same SID for Primary and Standby Databases in 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 Service: Pluggable database lifecycle support
You can now create and manage pluggable databases (PDBs) in Exadata Cloud Service using the OCI console and APIs. See ...
Exadata Cloud Service: Set DB_UNIQUE_NAME and Oracle SID prefix during database creation
You can now specify the DB_UNIQUE_NAME
value and the Oracle SID prefix when creating a new Oracle Database in Exadata ...
Oracle Database: Encryption key options updated for bare metal, virtual machine, and Exadata Cloud Service databases
When provisioning a new Oracle Database or a new virtual machine or bare metal DB system, the TDE wallet password ...
Performance Hub Exadata Tab
The Exadata tab provides a unified view of Oracle Exadata hard disk and flash performance statistics with deep insight into ...
Exadata Cloud Service: custom SCAN listener port for VM cluster
You can now specify a custom SCAN listener port for your Exadata cloud VM cluster. See SCAN Listener Port Setting ...
Performance Hub & metrics available for databases running in Exadata Cloud Service, bare metal DB systems, and virtual machine DB systems
You can now use the Performance Hub tool and view metrics on cloud databases that run on the following systems: ...
Maintenance advisory contacts for Exadata infrastructure
You can choose to specify up to 10 valid email addresses to which Oracle sends maintenance notifications when updates are ...
Data Guard protection mode enhancement for Exadata, Bare Metal, and Virtual Machine Database Cloud services
You can now specify the Data Guard protection mode for Exadata Cloud Service instances and bare metal and virtual machine ...
Exadata Cloud Service: Non-rolling infrastructure patching option now available
You can now configure Exadata infrastructure patching to take place in a non-rolling fashion across the database nodes. This option ...
Customer-managed encryption keys available with Oracle Data Guard-enabled databases in Exadata Cloud Service
Customer-managed keys for Exadata Cloud Service is an encryption key management service that enables you to encrypt your data using ...
ExaCS OS/DomU Patching Project
DomU OS Patching is a feature which enables ExaCS customers to upgrade the Exadata OS image on their domU nodes ...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault Integration with Exadata Cloud Service
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault service integration with Exadata Cloud Service enables database encryption with customer-managed keys. For more information, see ...
Exadata Cloud Service: Oracle Database 19c upgrade feature available
You can now upgrade Exadata Cloud Service databases to Oracle Database version 19c using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or ...
Create custom database software images for Exadata Cloud Service instances
You can now create custom Oracle Database software images to use for provisioning Database Homes and and patching databases in ...
Exadata Cloud Service: grid infrastructure upgrade for cloud VM clusters
You can now upgrade the grid infrastructure (GI) of an Exadata Cloud Service VM cluster using the Console. For more ...
Exadata Cloud Service: the flexible X8M shape now available
You can now provision an Exadata Cloud Service instance using the flexible X8M shape. This shape allows you to expand ...
Exadata Cloud Service: use an existing Database Home when setting up a Data Guard standby database
You can now choose to use an existing Database Home when setting up a Data Guard standby database in your ...