Using Flexible Shapes and Bursting
When creating a desktop pool, you can use flexible compute shapes and enable bursting for desktops provisioned with OCI standard VM shapes.
A shape is a template that decides the number of Oracle Compute Units (OCPUs), amount of memory, and other resources that are allocated to an instance. Compute shapes are available with AMD processors, Intel processors, and Arm-based processors.
Secure Desktops includes the option to create a desktop pool using a flexible shape, letting you control the number of OCPUs and the amount of memory for the desktop instance. This flexibility lets you optimize desktop performance and minimize cost. For general information about flexible shapes, see Compute Shapes.
If the desktops in a pool are typically idle with only occasional spikes in usage then you might consider enabling cloud bursting on the desktop instance. For flexible OCI standard VM shapes, you set baseline utilization per OCPU to enable cloud bursting. This baseline is the CPU that can be used constantly, with occasional spikes in usage. This configuration isn't suitable for most desktop pools. For more information about burstable instances, see Burstable Instances.
Cloud bursting isn't supported for shielded instances. If you're creating a Windows 11 desktop pool using shielded instances, ensure that baseline utilization is set to 100% (no bursting) to avoid errors during pool creation.
For more information about configuring these features in Secure Desktops during desktop pool creation, see Creating a Desktop Pool.
This feature can only be enabled when creating new desktop pools.