Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer New Releases 2021

Oracle Cloud has announced many new features on OCI the entire year. So it’s time to take a round trip on the top 4 new releases related to Exadata Cloud@Customer so that you don’t miss out on any important updates.

In this blog post, I am going to cover some of the latest updates and announcements of the year for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Let’s get started!

About Exadata

Exadata is a database appliance designed by Oracle that has the ability to supply support to a mixture of database systems like OLTP (On-line Transaction Processing) and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing), the transactional and analytical database systems severally.

Exadata offers its users an enhanced functionality relating to enterprise-class databases and their associated workloads.

Read/know more about Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC)

Let’s look at the New releases:

1. Upgrade Oracle Database From Console

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure users can now upgrade Databases from their console

An upgrade operation cannot happen while an automatic backup operation is ongoing. Before upgrading, Oracle suggests disabling automatic backups and performing a manual backup.

For Example: If you’re upgrading a database that uses version 11.2 software, the resulting version 19c database is going to be a non-container database (non-CDB). After upgrading, you can’t use automatic backups taken before the upgrade to revive the database to an earlier point in time.

Read more about what are the pre-requisites & How to upgrade the database on Oracle official docs Upgrading Oracle Databases

2. Updating Guest VM Operating System

To update the OS image on Exadata Cloud@Customer VM cluster nodes in an automatic way. you’ll be able to update from the OCI console and APIs.

This automated feature simplifies and speeds up VM cluster patching, makes patching less error-open, and eliminates the need to use Patch Manager.

Images Source: Oracle

See Oracle doc to get more information Updating guest VM Operating System.

3. Download Network Validation Report

If you want to validate and inspect the network validation failure report without active participation from Oracle Cloud Ops in troubleshooting networking configuration issues.

See Oracle Release doc to know How to download Network Validation Report.

4. Upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure on an Exadata Cloud@Customer VM Cluster

Oracle Release New feature in Exadata Cloud@Customer, Now you can upgrade & manage  Oracle Grid Infrastructure on an Exadata Cloud@Customer by using Console and API calls.

See Oracle doc to know more about Upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure on ExaCC.

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