{"id":1905,"date":"2016-12-20T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2026-02-07T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:27:13","slug":"12-days-of-cloud-adding-storage-to-dbaas-node","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/2016\/1905\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Days of #Cloud: Adding Storage to #DBaaS Node"},"content":{"rendered":"

12 Days of #Cloud: Day 7<\/h2>\n

There are three types of storage expansion possible on Oracle #DBaaS instance.<\/p>\n

1. Increase Default File Systems<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Increasing the default file systems that hold data files (\/u02), FRA and backup (\/u03) is easy. \u00a0These file systems can be increased by using the menu item “Scale Up \/ Down Service” and choosing the appropriate file system to extend. Below example shows extending the backup file system.<\/p>\n

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No other file systems can be increased easily. To increase a storage volume, you need to create a\u00a0new volume, copy contents from old to new, and remove the old.<\/p>\n

2. Creating New\u00a0Storage Volume<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the above screen (Scale up \/ down Service), you can choose the first option of “Create New Storage Volume”. Specify a size in GB and click the confirm (Yes, Scale Up\/Down Service) button.<\/p>\n

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The DBaaS Monitor Console (OS Storage) shows the storage is available on the node.<\/p>\n

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Also, view details in the Oracle Compute Cloud Services, Storage section.<\/p>\n

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#DBaaS service assigns the next available device and volume number.<\/p>\n

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File system is updated in \/etc\/fstab\u00a0as well, so when VM is rebooted, the storage you just added is automatically mounted.<\/p>\n

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Notice that, though we added a new storage volume that has nothing to do with the running database, DBaaS service did take an outage on the environment and rebooted the node.<\/p>\n

A note from Oracle documentation<\/a>: Looks like an unnecessary limitation.<\/p>\n

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3. Attaching New Storage Volume from Compute Cloud<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This is similar to #2, but more manual steps. Used Oracle documentation<\/a> as a\u00a0reference to do these steps.<\/p>\n

Choose Oracle Compute Cloud Service and click on the “Create Storage Volume” button.<\/p>\n

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Pick a name and size for the storage volume, and the type of storage.<\/p>\n

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Once the storage volume is created, attach the storage to a DBaaS VM.<\/p>\n

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Choose the instance where the volume need to be attached to.<\/p>\n

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Storage is attached to the DBaaS host.<\/p>\n

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But the storage is not visible on the Linux VM as it is not mounted. Before mounting the storage, there are few steps to complete. The new storage added is \/dev\/xvdg.<\/p>\n

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A note from Oracle Documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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12 Days of #Cloud: Day 7 There are three types of storage expansion possible on Oracle #DBaaS instance. 1. Increase Default File Systems Increasing the default file systems that hold data files (\/u02), FRA and backup (\/u03) is easy. \u00a0These file systems can be increased by using the menu item “Scale Up \/ Down Service” … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-autonomous","tag-oracle-cloud"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bijoos.com\/oraclenotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}