Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Changing a Load Balancer's Bandwidth Shape

Update a load balancer to use a different bandwidth shape.

If you're not an Always Free user, you can adjust the size of the bandwidth to one of the other predefined sizes.

Note

Always Free users can't change the bandwidth of a load balancer. Upgrade to a different account to increase your bandwidth size.

    1. Open the navigation menu, click Networking, and then click Load balancers. Click Load balancer. The Load balancers page appears.

    2. Select the Compartment from the list. All load balancers in that compartment are listed in tabular form.

    3. Select a State from the list to limit the load balancers displayed to that state.

    4. Click the load balancer whose bandwidth you want to change. The load balancer's Details page appears.

    5. Click Update shape. The Update shape dialog box appears. The options displayed vary on what type of existing bandwidth size option you're using.

      • Changing a flexible shape: Enter the values for the Minimum bandwidth and Maximum bandwidth shape sizes you want changed.

        Note

        Using flexible bandwidth shapes for Government accounts can result in overages if the pre-paid shape sizes are exceeded.

        To specify a dynamic shape size, for example 500 Mbps, set the minimum and maximum sliders to the same value.

      • Changing a dynamic shape: Select the new bandwidth of the load balancer from the Choose shape size list. The existing bandwidth size of the load balancer is unavailable to select.

        You can switch from a dynamic shape size to a flexible shape by checking the Use a flexible load balancer option and specifying your shape size using the minimum and maximum sliders (see Changing a flexible shape).

        Note

        After you have switched to a flexible shape, you can't revert to a dynamic shape.

    6. Click Save changes. Changing the bandwidth size of the load balancer requires resetting all existing sessions of the load balancer.

    7. Click Confirm to continue. The Details page reappears.

  • Use the oci lb load-balancer update-load-balancer-shape command and required parameters to change a load balancer's bandwidth shape:

    oci lb load-balancer update-load-balancer-shape --load-balancer-id load_balancer_id --shape-name shape_name [OPTIONS]

    For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.

  • Run the UpdateLoadBalancerShape operation to change a load balancer's bandwidth shape.