Compute

172 Release Notes

High Performance Computing now available

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: November 21, 2023

High Performance Computing (HPC) performs complex calculations and processes data faster than traditional Compute. HPC uses bare metal servers, ultralow ...

Resize cluster networks

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: April 28, 2021
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now update the number of instances in a cluster network by resizing the underlying instance pool. This lets ...

New live migration option

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: April 21, 2021

You can now choose to have your instances live migrated to healthy physical VM hosts without any notification or disruption. ...

VM host failure recovery

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: March 15, 2021

When the underlying infrastructure of a Standard or GPU VM instance fails, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure automatically attempts to recover the ...

Live migration for compute VM instances

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: December 08, 2020

During an infrastructure maintenance event that impacts a physical compute host, where applicable, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure live migrates VM instances ...

Run commands within compute instances

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: October 27, 2020
  • API Versions Affected: 20180530

You can remotely configure, manage, and troubleshoot compute instances by running scripts within the instance using the run command feature. ...

E3 Compute shapes available in more regions

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: July 01, 2020
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

The VM.Standard.E3.Flex shape and the BM.Standard.E3.128 shape are now available in the following regions:

  • Saudi Arabia West (Jeddah) ...

Changing the shape of a Compute instance

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: January 13, 2020
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can change the shape of a virtual machine (VM) instance without having to rebuild your instances or redeploy your ...

Imported images supported on AMD shapes

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: December 09, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now launch custom imported images on AMD shapes. You must use paravirtualized launch mode. For more information, see ...

Export Windows images

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: September 24, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now export Windows images. This enables you to share custom images across tenancies and regions. For more information, ...

Additional events for Compute

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Events service now supports the following Compute resources: autoscaling configurations and autoscaling policies, cluster networks, console ...

Dedicated virtual machine hosts

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: August 28, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Dedicated virtual machine hosts provide you with the ability to run your Compute virtual machine (VM) instances on dedicated servers ...

Autoscaling for instance pools

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: February 28, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20181001

You can now automatically adjust the number of Compute instances in an instance pool based on performance metrics such as ...

VNC console access for bare metal instances

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: February 26, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

The Compute service now provides VNC console access to bare metal instances, enabling you to remotely troubleshoot malfunctioning instances. For ...

New OCI format for exported images

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: December 21, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Images exported from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are now exported in OCI format, which is a TAR file that contains a ...

Partner images and Oracle images

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: November 07, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now create Compute instances from trusted third-party images published by Oracle partners, or pre-built Oracle enterprise images and ...

Instance pools and instance configurations

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: October 19, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Managing your Compute instances has now been made easier with the new instance pools and instance configuration features for Oracle ...

Fault domains

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: August 09, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now use fault domains to distribute your instances so that they are not on the same physical hardware ...

Serial Console Access

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: October 20, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

The Compute service now provides serial console access to bare metal instances, enabling you to remotely troubleshoot malfunctioning instances. For ...

Serial console access

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: August 24, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

The Compute service now provides serial console access to virtual machine (VM) instances, enabling you to remotely troubleshoot malfunctioning instances. ...

Oracle Ksplice

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: August 24, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Oracle Linux images, versions 6.9-2017.08.17-0, 7.3-2017.08.17-0, and newer, now include Oracle Ksplice, which enables you to apply important security and ...

Image import/export

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: July 07, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

The Compute service enables you to share custom images across tenancies and regions using image import/export. See Image Import/Export. ...

VM compute instances

  • Services: Compute
  • Release Date: January 04, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now launch Virtual Machine (VM) instances that run on the same hardware as bare metal instances and leverage ...