Provisioning the First VM Cluster on an Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer System
Learn how to create the first VM cluster on your Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer system.
- About Managing VM Clusters on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
The VM cluster provides a link between your Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer infrastructure and Oracle Databases you deploy. - Prerequisites for VM Clusters on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
To connect to the VM cluster virtual machine, you use an SSH public key. - Using the Console to Create a VM Cluster
To create your VM cluster, be prepared to provide values for the fields required for configuring the infrastructure.
About Managing VM Clusters on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
The VM cluster provides a link between your Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer infrastructure and Oracle Databases you deploy.
The VM cluster contains an installation of Oracle Clusterware, which supports databases in the cluster. In the VM cluster definition, you also specify the number of enabled CPU cores, which determines the amount of CPU resources that are available to your databases
Before you can create any databases on your Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure, you must create a VM cluster network, and you must associate it with a VM cluster.
Avoid entering confidential information when assigning descriptions, tags, or friendly names to your cloud resources through the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, API, or CLI.
Prerequisites for VM Clusters on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
To connect to the VM cluster virtual machine, you use an SSH public key.
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAA....lo/gKMLVM2xzc1xJr/Hc26biw3TXWGEakrK1OQ== rsa-key-20160304
Using the Console to Create a VM Cluster
To create your VM cluster, be prepared to provide values for the fields required for configuring the infrastructure.
To create a VM cluster, ensure that you have:
- Active Exadata infrastructure is available to host the VM cluster.
- A validated VM cluster network is available for the VM cluster to use.
Related Topics
- Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer Service Description
- Using the Console to Scale the Resources on a VM Cluster
- Introduction to Scale Up or Scale Down Operations
- Estimating How Much Local Storage You Can Provision to Your VMs
- Resource Tags
- Oracle PaaS/IaaS Cloud Service Description documents
- Oracle Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service – Public Cloud Service DescriptionsMetered & Non-Metered
- Getting Started with Events
- Overview of Database Service Events
- Overview of Automatic Diagnostic Collection
- Incident Logs and Trace Files
- Health Metrics
- Using the Console to Enable, Partially Enable, or Disable Diagnostics Collection
- Resource Manager and Terraform