Managing Bare Metal and Virtual Machine DB Systems

This topic explains how to perform a variety of management tasks for a bare metal or virtual machine database system. Tasks include:

Starting, stopping, rebooting, and terminating a DB system
Scaling the CPU count and storage
Changing the shape of a virtual machine DB system
Managing network security groups (NSGs) for your system
Managing licenses for your DB system
Checking the system status
Moving a system to another compartment
Creating a serial console connection to your DB system nodes
Managing tags for your system
Viewing work requests related to your system

Required IAM Policy

To use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you must be granted security access in a policy by an administrator. This access is required whether you're using the Console or the REST API with an SDK, CLI, or other tool. If you get a message that you don’t have permission or are unauthorized, verify with your administrator what type of access you have and which compartment to work in.

For administrators: The policy in Let database admins manage Oracle Cloud database systems lets the specified group do everything with databases and related Database resources.

If you're new to policies, see Getting Started with Policies and Common Policies. If you want to dig deeper into writing policies for databases, see Details for the Database Service.