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Select an Exadata Guest VM Version for Oracle Exadata Database Service VM Cluster Provisioning

Introduction

We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of the ability to choose the Exadata guest virtual machine (VM) version for VM cluster provisioning on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer (ExaDB-C@C) and Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure( ExaDB-D) cloud services. Currently, customers can update their Guest VMs from an Oracle Linux 7(OL7) based image to an Oracle Linux 8(OL8) based image. This feature allows customers to choose the Guest VM version between Exadata 23.x (OL8-based image) and Exadata 22.x (OL7-based image) while provisioning their VM clusters. With this, customers can directly provision an OL8 VM cluster if they choose to do so.

Note: This feature is intended to provision a VM cluster on ExaDB-C@C and ExaDB-D with your choice of Oracle Linux 8 or Oracle Linux 7-based image. It also provides the flexibility of matching your production and test environments’ configuration with the selection of the latest six minor versions within each major Guest OS version.

Objectives

Prerequisites

Task 1: Create a VM Cluster

  1. Open the navigation menu, click Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure.

    Image showing OCI Console Navigation

  2. Select the Region that contains your Oracle Exadata Database Service cloud infrastructure.

  3. Click Exadata VM clusters and Create Exadata VM cluster.

    When you provision a new VM cluster on an existing Exadata Infrastructure, you have the option of choosing the GI version and the Exadata Guest VM version.

    Image showing Create Exadata VM cluster

  4. Select the Oracle Grid Infrastructure (GI) version and Exadata guest OS version.

    Image showing GI version option

    Note: You can choose between the 23.x and 22.x series of Guest VM versions. 23.x series releases are OL8-based, whereas 22.x series releases are OL7-based. Additionally, there are six minor versions to choose from each major Guest VM version. By default, the Guest VM version will be matched with the underlying Exadata Infrastructure version. For example, If the Exadata infrastructure is running at Exadata System Software version 23.1, the Guest VM will be provisioned with the same OL8-based 23.1 image.

    Image showing GI version option

  5. Once the Exadata VM cluster is provisioned, you can view the Exadata guest OS and GI version on the VM Cluster details page.

    Image showing VM cluster details page

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