Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Creating a Transfer Capacity Request

Transfer resources from a source tenancy to a destination tenancy in OCI Control Center.

You can place a request for transfer of capacity for a specific shape of hardware in a region and AD. However, the capacity expansion isn't demanded from the available resources in the catalog. Instead, it's based on what is already provisioned in the tenancy. The transfer request must include the source tenancy and target tenancy details with the demanded resource quantity to the transferred or moved.
  • Source Tenancy: The customer tenancy from where the available capacity needs to be moved.
  • Target Tenancy: The customer tenancy to which the moved capacity is to be added.
As a customer, you can request for a capacity transfer for any of the following reasons:
  • You plan to optimize the usage of resources in source tenancy.
  • You prefer to correct shortage of resource availability at the destination tenancy.
  • You prefer to set up a temporary arrangement until resources under maintenance are available.
Note

In transfer capacity, the capacity isn't demanded from the availability catalog but based on the resources that are already provisioned in the source tenancy. Also, there must be an agreement between the source tenancy owner and target tenancy owner in moving the resources. The source tenancy owner and target tenancy owner must agree in transferring the resources.

    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 Transfer.
      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 you want to transfer from one tenancy to another.
        • Resource name: Name of the resource that you want 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 file with all the resources to be transferred from one tenancy to another.
        1. Select Download blank CSV.
        2. Add the capacity transfer details for all resources and save the file.
        3. Under Drop file, either drop the saved CSV file or select the select one link 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 request and you can view the request details in the Capacity requests list table.
    6. To only create a request, select Create and submit the request post creation.
    7. On the Capacity requests page, select the name of the new transfer capacity request and select Submit from the Actions menu (Actions Menu) to submit the request.

  • This task can't be performed using the CLI.

  • This task can't be performed using the API.