Recent Posts by Max Verun

You can now leverage a powerful and differentiating feature from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to manage multiple block storage volumes and boot volumes more quickly and easily. In May 2018, we introduced our volume groups feature, which enables you to streamline the creation and management of groups of block volumes by using the CLI, SDK, and Terraform. The ability to manage volume groups is ideal for the protection and lifecycle management of enterprise applications, which...

Today we released an exciting service update to ensure that block-volume-device path names and hierarchies stay consistent and persist across reboots. This usability-related update simplifies the management and ordering of block storage devices and improves the user experience for many of the workloads that run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Now when you attach a volume to an instance, you can select a device path name from a drop-down list. Device path names have the format d...

We are excited to announce that you can now copy your block volume backups between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regions. This new capability is part of our continual investment to provide customers with comprehensive application and data protection solutions in cloud. Cross-region backup copy enhances the following capabilities: Disaster recovery and business continuity: By copying block volume backups to another region at a regular interval, you can rebuild applications and...

You face a constant challenge as your business demands and handles more data every day. In addition to tackling the ever-growing demand for data storage, you must also apply patches and upgrades to your operating systems, install new applications or update your existing applications frequently. All of this places a growing demand on the size of your existing operating system disks. You need to be able to scale your existing data storage and system disks easily, without risk,...

We are excited to announce that you can now backup and clone your boot volumes online without any downtime on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Put all your worries about application protection and life-cycle management behind you! We continue to invest heavily in adding comprehensive application and data protection solutions to our cloud offering. Boot volumes provide remote boot disks that are encrypted by default, offer high performance and fast launch times, and durability for...

We are excited to announce that the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume service now supports up to 32 TB volumes, doubled from the prior limit of 16 TB per volume.  With 32 attachments on a compute instance, you can now have a total of 1 petabyte of high performance block storage per instance, twice as much as before. All our storage uses best-in-class NVMe SSDs, and has data plane availability, control plane availability, and performance that are backed by the Oracle...

We are excited to introduce a new feature in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume service: volume groups! Volume groups enable you to group together multiple block storage volumes and boot volumes (i.e., system boot disks that are backed by Block Volume service), and perform crash-consistent, point-in-time, coordinated backups and clones across all the volumes in the group. Enterprise applications typically require multiple volumes across multiple compute instances in...

Today we are excited to announce a new capability for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volumes: Paravirtualized attachments for VMs! Attach a block volume to a VM and it becomes available as a storage device immediately ready to use for your workloads. To access your volume, you don't have to run iSCSI configuration commands anymore! In the context of block volumes, paravirtualization is a light virtualization technique where a VM (guest OS) utilizes hypervisor APIs to access...

You want a compute instance with a high-performance system boot disk of up to 16 TB? You now have it on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure! This is enabled for you immediately as a seamless service update to the recently announced boot volumes feature. Our customers demand 300 GB or larger system disks, especially for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some customer legacy applications are deployed to the system drive, taking significantly more space than our default operating...