Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Creating a Forecast Capacity Request

Creating a forecast capacity request for a cloud resource in a tenancy and a Availability domain in OCI Control Center.

You can create a capacity request for future capacity needs in advance for the next few years so that OCI can plan accordingly to provide the required infrastructure. You communicate your need by providing the resource type and its demand quantity. You can submit the request using the OCI Cloud Conole interface or importing a predefined template in Excel format.

    1. On the Capacity Requests list page, select Create capacity requests. If you need help finding the list page, see Listing Capacity Requests.
    2. In the Create capacity request panel, provide the following details:
      1. Request Type: Select Forecast.
      2. Namespace: Select Compute as the namespace for the capacity request.
      3. Region: Select a region.
      4. Description: Provide a description for the capacity request.
      5. Expected capacity handover date: Use the date picker and select an expected capacity handover date.
    3. Under Transfer request, select one of the following options:
      • Fill request manually: Select this option to manually provide the following details for each resource that requires to be transferred from one tenancy to another.
        • Resource name: Name of the resource that you prefer to transfer from a source to a target tenancy.
        • Source tenancy: The customer tenancy from which the available capacity has to be moved.
        • Target tenancy: The customer tenancy to which the moved capacity is to be added.
        • Transfer quantity:
        • Availability domain:
      • Upload request CSV: Select this option to update a CSV with all the resources to be transferred from one tenancy to another.
        1. Select Download blank CSV.
        2. Fill the capacity transfer details for all resources and save the file.
        3. Under Drop file, either drop the saved CSV file or click select one to browse and upload the saved CSV file.
    4. (Optional) Tag the new capacity request.
      • Tag namespace: To add a defined tag, select an existing namespace. If you're adding a free-from tag, leave this field blank.
      • Tag key: To add a defined tag, select an existing tag key. To add a free-form tag, type the key name that you want.
      • Tag value: Type the tag value that you want.
    5. To create and submit the request immediately, select Create and Submit.
      Note

      OCI creates and assigns a name to the forecast request and you can view the request details in the Capacity requests summary table.
    6. To only create a request, select Create.
    7. On the Capacity requests page, select the name of the capacity request you created to view the forecast details.

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