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Yes, you can terminate the instance (including boot volume) and create a new one.
Think instances as ephemeral.
Public IPv4 will change.
Use a load balancer if you want stable IPv4 for incoming requests.
Yes. If there's stock available in your region.
vnc + netboot.xyz
Reinstaller for Debian: https://github.com/bohanyang/debi
My home region is Japan East (Tokyo).
I terminate the instance when not in use.
Every time I need an instance, I can get one instantly, and never experienced out of stock condition.
Tokyo has improved routing to China earlier this year.
They also released IPv6 support this month.
I plan to try it out soon.
I'm building a global Named Data Networking network to efficiently deliver push-up videos to worldwide viewers.
Currently the last hop is WebSockets, but if I have my own network, I can use QUIC instead.
It's great that I don't have to pay for the expensive bandwidth in Asia.
I wish Oracle Cloud could allow free instances to be created on any region, so that I can have an instance in South America too.
That sounds like an abuse of the 2 VM limit and more than one region.
Most of the time, I have no use for 2 VMs in the same region.
I wish to have 1 VM in Tokyo and 1 VM in Santiago, but I can't.
I agree that a second VM on another region would be golden.
Tried that, but failed with "NotAuthorizedOrNotFound" error message
Anyone?
My experience with Japan region was totally different about a year ago.
I was helping a friend to setup his account and it was simply impossible to get a slot there, always with 'out of stock' error. Eventually I decided to automated the checking process with a script that ran every ~3 minutes (and notified me through Telegram when that error disappeared). Even then it took 2 days to get the first slot and another day to get the second. Nightmare.
Found this topic after searching for how to reinstall the OS on my Ampere free instance, not really wanting to terminate and recreate the instance to just reinstall the OS, as it took days of trying to get this instance as always out of stock in my region of the Ampere instances. Is there really no official way to reinstall the OS from within the oracle control panel other than to recreate the whole instance?
sadly no (maybe netboot.xyz?)
Ok ill look at netboot.xyz, wish id taken a backup of the boot volume just after the instance had been provisioned, as restoring that backup of a clean install would be the as good as reinstalling the OS, as I don't want to move to a different OS just get it back to factory fresh install
You can't restore boot volume backup to a running instance. You have to create a new instance from that boot volume backup. Which is same as creating new instance from scratch in terms of host capacity issue. If you are ok with debian 11, you can just run the following commands.
This will reinstall to Debian 11 with cloud Kernel. Installation size is less than 700MB & network interface name will be eth0.
It is possible to attach both volumes to a different instance (via iSCSI), then
dd
one to another. But the instance must be stopped for that, and starting it, is again, has you compete for available capacity to even start it. Yes, it will give the same "Out of host capacity" also on starting an already existing but stopped instance.@Hakim
Oracle uses enp0s3 and not ethx the last time I checked. will your command above worked?
I am still coming to grips with linux !
Yes it will work. It creates eth0 alias of enp0s3 as far I understand.
I'm using IPv6 on Tokyo for around 2 months, no problem at all.
Anyone using the 4c/24gb arm instance along with 2 free instances. have you been billed ever?
nope as its clearly stated on their website always free.
Thank you for this! I confirm it is working perfectly. Ubuntu 20.04 was the original OS with arm instance.
How to you start vps after shutdown?
Any success with 24GB instance reinstall instead of Oracle Linux
sudo shutdown -r now
"-r" flag in the command means reboot.
It worked thanks
Start it in Oracle console just like any other VM.
That doesn't work with arm instance it is bugged
Nope. probably something wrong with your VM
Check network status that your DC doesn't have known issue and possibly recovering from and then request help in their forum.
If you power-off your VM, starting it back up will only work if there's currently stock, in case of the free ARM this is not guaranteed.
=> do not power-off your VM.