This section describes the new features and enhancements introduced in release 2.0.6.3.0 of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software (EECS).
Besides enhanced reliability, robustness, performance, and usability, EECS 2.0.6.3.0 includes the following features and enhancements:
EECS 2.0.6.3.0 supports only fresh installs on Exalogic X6-2 racks. Reimaging of older physical racks, including X2-2/X3-2/X4-2/X5-2, continues to be supported using EECS 2.0.6.2.0, followed by an upgrade to the latest available Exalogic PSU.
See Hardware Components of Exalogic for more information about Exalogic X6-2 hardware components.
EECS 2.0.6.3.0 provides Oracle Linux 6 for Exalogic X6-2 physical or virtual racks. Oracle Solaris or Oracle Linux 5 is not supported on Exalogic X6-2 physical racks.
The Exalogic Guest Base Template (EGBT) in EECS 2.0.6.3.0 for Exalogic X6-2 virtual racks contains an Oracle Linux 6.8 server installation. The boot partition in the template has been increased to 500 MB from 100 MB. Oracle Linux 5 EGBT is not supported on Exalogic X6-2 virtual racks.
EECS 2.0.6.3.0 includes updated versions of OVM Manager (OVMM 3.2.11) and EM Ops Center in the Exalogic Control Stack to manage the virtualized Exalogic system.
An updated version of Oracle Virtual Server (OVS 3.2.11) is installed on the compute nodes (dom0) in the Virtualized configuration.
EECS 2.0.6.3.0 also includes enhancements and bug fixes for Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center in Exalogic Control:
Users can now edit DNS server information of an existing EoIB network from the Exalogic Control Browser User Interface (BUI). New vServers created using the updated EoIB network will keep the updated DNS server information in /etc/resolv.conf.
Exalogic Control BUI has a new view in Administration section of the Enterprise Controller to see the list of assets added to the blacklist to prevent Exalogic Control from enabling that asset for ASR
Improved support for Exalogic Control BUI when zooming in and out in the web browser.
Added a new feature of default limited membership for vServers using IPoIB-default.
Storage Nodes are now listed under the Storage tree in the Exalogic Control BUI.
IPoIB network is defined as EoIB network, using the same wizard. This helps users to use IPoIB networks to share between multiple vDC accounts.
Order of the assigned networks bonds are enabled, when creating vServer in vDC.
ZS5-ES version support is added as a new feature.
vServer names are displayed in job details while performing operations.
EECS 2.0.6.3.0 includes enhancements and bug fixes for the IaaS CLI.
Enhanced formatting, filtering, and sorting for IaaS CLI commands
Now user can implement BUI, CLI and API changes for blacklisting the IP address from vNet.
User can now expose vNet type in IaaS described vNets to show the type of network (Private or Public) being used.
Exalogic IaaS CLI has the following new features:
Adding existing vServer(s) to a Distribution Group.
Removing an existing vServer from a Distribution Group.
Changing a vServer’s Distribution Group.
Adding a list of vServers to a Distribution Group.
Removing a list of vServers from a Distribution Group.