Features Released in Software Version 3.0.2-b892153 (July 2023)
Upgrade Enhancements
Both the upgrade and patching processes are now based on an upgrade plan, which is the result of a metadata comparison between the new version to be installed and the version currently running on the system. The upgrade plan ensures that components are only patched or upgraded if the latest version is newer. Overwriting an installed component with the same version can be forced, if necessary.
Every upgrade and patch command has a verify-only option. This can be used to test in advance for system health issues that would prevent the operation from completing successfully.
Patching or upgrading the operating system on the management nodes no longer requires the administrator to manually reassign the cluster primary role to another node in between operations. The code detects which node holds the primary role and automatically modifies the cluster configuration in the background.
User-friendly commands to retrieve IP addresses of nodes and their ILOMs have been added to the Service CLI.
The full management node cluster upgrade automatically runs the
upgradeOCIImages command at the end. This updates the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute images across all tenancies.
All changes are reflected in the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Upgrade Guide and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Patching Guide.
Your Own CA Trust Chain
In the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance architecture, you can provide your own CA certificates which allows you to use your CA trust chain to access the rack's external interfaces.
Note:
OpenSSH clients must be at least version openssh-clients-7.4p1 or later.For instructions, see "Accessing External Interfaces with Your Certificate Authority Trust Chain" in the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Administrator Guide.
Oracle Defined Volume Backup Policies
For scheduled (policy-based) backups of block volumes and boot volumes, you can select an Oracle defined policy to use as an alternative to defining your own policy. For descriptions of the Oracle defined backup policies, see "Volume Backups and Clones" in the Block Volume Storage Overview chapter in the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Concepts Guide. For information about how to use these policies, see "Managing Backup Policies" in the Block Volume Storage chapter of the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance User Guide.
Platform Images
New platform images are made available for Compute Enclave users through Private Cloud Appliance installation, upgrade, and patching.
The following platform images are delivered with this Private Cloud Appliance release:
| Oracle Linux 8 |
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| Oracle Linux 7.9 |
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| Oracle Solaris 11.4 |
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Support for Oracle Exadata Multi-cluster VMs
Private Cloud Appliance now provides support for Oracle Exadata multi-cluster VMs. Note that when you are connecting more than one Oracle Exadata system to the Private Cloud Appliance rack, you must ensure that the configured IP address ranges do not overlap.
System Backup Service Updates
System backups that were created by running either a daily scheduled brs
backup or a manual (backup-now) brs backup are retained
for no more than 14 days.
After you upgrade the Private Cloud Appliance to this
release and run either type of brs backup, all brs backups
that were previously created and are older than 14 days are deleted.
ZFSSA manual snapshots are not deleted if they were not created by using any
brs job, and their snapshot name is not in the following form (the
brs snapshot naming convention):
projectname/filesystemname_timestamp
For more information, see "Backup and Restore" in the Appliance Administration Overview chapter of the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Concepts Guide and the Backup and Restore chapter in the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Administrator Guide.