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When I detach the reserved public IP from my instance, it stays unassigned. But the IP will be yours as you reserved it (You can find your unassigned IP from In Network > Public IPs). You can now assign it to any other instance within the same region of the IP. So even if you reinstall the OS, you can reassign your reserved IP.
out of luck, out of host capacity.
The network from germany seems ok, not 2gbps ok but decent. I spun up the highest tier for the 300$ plan to test and was able to send out at a constant 50mb/s ~500mbps which isn't blazing but its decent. It was solid for a few hours.
Has anyone managed to get a Debian image to work? I built both 10 and 9, but neither comes up.
Anyone knows how to "reinstall" the instance? I'm afraid losing the availability if I terminate and recreate the instance
I can't find the "micro" instance you guys are talking about (which is the one that should be free). I'm trying to create a VM in Zurich, Switzerland.
Does that mean they are out of stock?
Seems like the free instance VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro is not available in Switzerland for some reason (at least, this is what I read on a forum).
I managed to roll out a free instance there a week ago so they were definitely available. Might just be out of stock now.
Thanks for the feedback! How is a user supposed to know that they are out of stock if they don't write it though?
By the way, Oracle's customer service is awful: they closed the chat three times while I was still speaking and trying to figure out what to do...
Did you chose Switzerland as your "Home Region" during signup? The Micro VMs quota is provided only in the region you chose at that time, not in others.
Create non-trial instance, detach boot volume from both instances, attach new boot volume to free instance, terminate new instance.
Oracle is going to need to up their game if they want to be in the running for a provider award here.
Be sure to check out the other ADs in the region. For example I can only spin up the micro instance in AD 2, though by default it selects AD 1.
And yeah their support is absolutely useless. I spent a couple weeks talking to support trying to verify that they don't charge for DNS zones. At the end they had an engineer inform me that they in fact do, which is wrong, they don't.
Tested?
Obviously he didn't test it, you can't replace boot volume with the new one.
Tested. Works.
Attach as data volume, dd, then re-attach as boot volume.
Keep in mind that only certain ADs qualify as always free too. In Phoenix, AD2 is only considered the free tier.
There's only AD 1 in Zurich!
Yesterday I wasted almost 1 hour to figure out how to open a ticket with support. They had me subscribe to an ancient site and then asked for some code I had never heard. I finally just decided I won't bother.
I really wanted those sweet free VPSs
So that block storage goes towards the always free VMs? Cause i was apparently using 47gigs of it already after creating a VM which means that if i get a second VM i'll have 6gigs of block storage left, so much for my porn collection dreams -_-
I send mail to support and ip reserved is free
offer as good as this, they definitely are desperate.
Too complicated. Any easier method? 😂
Good deal.
Please show me how you do that. Their control panel is confusing.
So I spent about a half hour figuring this one out.
So by default their image boot volumes are 46.7GB in size. If you use up 2 of the free VMS, you are at 93.4GB of space. The boot volumes are considered against your block volume storage quota of 100GB. OK - so create a 6.6GB block volume then? Wrong, only can create them at minimum 50GB. So, custom size the block volume lower than 46.7GB then? Wrong, the minimum size is 46GB. So essentially it is one VM and block storage or two VMs and no block storage.
This was a fun one too! You need to create a new account on support.oracle.com. From there, it will then (should) auto associate the email from your Cloud account to that one. They are looking for a support identifier number. Once you have an account and the support entitlements are associated, you can find this in support.oracle.com under your email address in "My Account" as support identifier.
BUT, also keep in mind that this is valid only during the first 30 days (with your trial credits). Afterwards, support is rendered only via the Forums.
I've spent a handful of time working all this out. With this said, these instances make good apps for me. I was able to move something from ArubaIT to Oracle since I have granular controls over the VNIC/VPC and can have stateless firewall rules applied, as stipulated by how important ACL is to this app.
I couldn't even have 1 VM + 1 block volume. I created 50gb block volume but got a warning when attempted to attach it to VM (saying that setup wasn't going to be part of free tier) so I deleted it - they later deducted few cents from my promo credit for creating the volume. .
(See last reply on page #2).
@daxterfellowes Yup, i remember seeing those limits when i played with it. Didn't pay much attention tho as i'm not interested in this much storage on my VMs. I'd rather have some more processing power as the thing is slow as hell. That 60 CPU steal is somewhat cute tho when installing updates for 30 minutes...
I have been able to create an instance in Zurich. It might be a good time to try again.
You can again create free instance at Tokyo DC now. Do it before it is out of host capacity again!