Block Volume

SCSI Persistent Reservation (SCSI PR) is a feature of the SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) protocol that allows multiple ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume direct APIs provide changed block tracking. With changed block tracking you can identify the ...

Block Volume now supports up to 32 Ultra High Performance volume attachments to a Compute instance. The aggregate performance supported ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cluster Placement Groups lets you create resources in close proximity to one another to support use cases ...

You can now attach up to 32 instances to a shared volume if the volume is not configured for the ...

Block Volume now supports changing the encryption key for a volume backup. Changing the encryption key doesn’t re-encrypt the volume ...

Block Volume now supports using SCSI UNMAP commands to reclaim unused space with boot volumes and block volumes. This provides ...

Block Volume now supports replication across availability domains within the same region for block volumes, boot volumes, and volume groups. ...

Block Volume now provides dynamic performance scaling with autotuning for attached block volumes. For more information about this feature, see ...

New regions pairs are now available for Block Volume's cross region replication feature. For a full list of supported region ...

Block Volume runs only one scheduled backup per volume per day. If more than one backup is scheduled for a ...

Boot volumes for VM instances with paravirtualized attachments support the Ultra High Performance level. For more information, see Boot Volumes ...

You can now select the option to automatically connect to iSCSI-attached volumes when you attach a volume. When you select ...

You can now track the status of cross region replication operations for Block Volume resources using the new VolumeReplicationSecondsSinceLastUpload and ...

You can now update the key assignment for block volumes and boot volumes without needing to detach the volume first. ...

The Block Volume service now supports automatic asynchronous replication of volume groups to other regions. See Volume Group Cross Region ...

Oracle defined backup policies no longer include full volume backups. For compliance scenarios that require scheduled full backups, configure a ...

The Block Volume service's Ultra High Performance level for block volumes is now supported for paravirtualized attachments to VM instances ...

The Block Volume service now supports specifying a custom target region for scheduled volume backup copies across regions. See Scheduling ...

The Block Volume service now supports copying volume group backups across regions. See Volume Group Backups and Copying a Volume ...

The Block Volume service now includes an Ultra High Performance level for block volumes.

See Block Volume Performance and ...

The Block Volume service now supports in-transit encryption for the following bare metal shapes:

• BM.Standard.E3.128
• BM.Standard.E4.128
...

The Block Volume service now supports automatic asynchronous replication of block volumes and boot volumes to other regions. See Cross ...

The Block Volume service now supports copying incremental volume backups across regions. See Copying a Volume Backup Between Regions - ...

Policy-based backups are now available for volume groups. For more information, see Policy-Based Volume Group Backups and Policy-Based Backups. ...

The performance adjustment timing for the Block Volume service's auto-tune volume performance feature has been updated as follows:

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You can now edit a volume's settings in the Console from a consolidated Edit Volume form. Previously, these settings were ...

The Block Volume service now supports the automatic adjustment of a block volume or boot volume's elastic performance setting to ...

The Block Volume service now supports expanding the size of an online volume for both block volumes and boot volumes. ...

You can now configure a retention period of up to 365 days for block volumes with a daily schedule for ...

The Block Volume service now supports automated cross-region copies for scheduled block volume backups. For more information, see Scheduling Volume ...

When a block volume or boot volume backup is created, the source volume's tags are now automatically included with the ...

You can now copy boot volume backups between regions. See Copying a Boot Volume Backup Between Regions for more information. ...

You can now attach a volume configured as read/write to multiple instances. See Attaching a Volume to Multiple Instances for ...

You can now create custom backup policies for your block volumes with the addition of user-defined backup policies to the ...

You can now dynamically change the volume performance of your block volumes and boot volumes with the Block Volume service's ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault provides data encryption using a customer-managed encryption key for ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Free Tier now includes a set of Always Free resources that allow you to explore Oracle's cloud ...

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Events service now supports block volumes, boot volumes, and volume groups (Block Volume service). For more ...

You can now copy block volume backups encrypted using Key Management between regions. See Copying a Volume Backup Between Regions ...

You can set compartment-specific limits on a resource or resource family using compartment quotas. For more information, see Compartment Quotas ...

You can move Block Volume resources such as block volume, boot volumes, volume backups, and volume groups from one compartment ...

You can now manage volume groups from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console. See Volume Groups - Using the Console for ...

In-transit encryption is now available for volumes with paravirtualized attachments on virtual machine (VM) instances. See Overview of Block Volume ...

When you attach a block volume to an instance you can now optionally select a device path that will remain ...

By default virtual machine (VM) instances created from Oracle-provided images now launch using a paravirtualized attachment for the boot volume. ...

You can now copy block volume backups between regions. See Copying a Volume Backup Between Regions for more information.

You can now resize boot volumes and block volumes. See Resizing a Volume for more information.

You can now create backups and clones for your boot volumes. See Overview of Boot Volume Backups and Cloning a ...

You can now group together multiple block volumes in a volume group. For more information, see Volume Groups.

You can now create 32 TB volumes.

You now have the option of attaching block volumes with a paravirtualized attachment. For more information, see Volume Attachment Types ...

Now when you launch a virtual machine (VM) or bare metal instance based on an Oracle-provided image or custom image, ...

You can now make a copy of an existing block volume without needing to go through the backup and restore ...

You can now create 16 TB volumes.

When creating a volume, you can select a size in 1 GB increments between 50 GB and 2 TB. The ...