Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Changing the Shape of an Instance on a Dedicated Virtual Machine Host

Change the shape of instances on a dedicated virtual machine host.

  • You can change the shape of an instance on a dedicated virtual machine host using the following steps.

    1. Navigate to the Dedicated Virtual Machine Hosts list page. If you need help finding the list page, see Listing Dedicated Virtual Machine Hosts.
    2. Select a the dedicated virtual machine host to see the details page.
    3. Select the option you see:
      • Under Resources, select Hosted instances.
    4. From the Actions menu (three dots), select the hosted instance to change.
    5. The instance details are displayed.
    6. Select the option you see:
      • Select More actions then Edit.
    7. Select the option you see:
      • Select Edit shape.
    8. From the Shape summary select and change the options as needed. Options include:
      • Shape series
      • Shape name
      • Number of OCPUs
      • Amount of memory
      Note

      Only shapes that support dedicated version machine host are displayed.
    9. After making your shape selections, select Save changes.
      Important

      For Dense I/O shapes, select the I understand that local storage will be deleted box to confirm local storage is deleted and cannot be recovered when the change is made.
    10. Select Reboot instance to start the shape change process.

  • Use the instance update command and required parameters to update an instance.

    oci compute instance update --from-json <file://path/to/file.json>

    <file://path/to/file.json> is the path to a JSON file that defines the instance details. For information about how to generate an example of the JSON file, see Advanced JSON Options.

    For a complete list of flags and variable options for the Compute service CLI commands, see the command line reference for Compute.

  • For information about using the API and signing requests, see REST API documentation and Security Credentials. For information about SDKs, see SDKs and the CLI.

    Use the UpdateInstance operation to update an instance.