Oracle DBCS : Start An Oracle Database Cloud Service Database Deployment

You want to start a Database Cloud Service Database Deployment after completing your maintenance work. When you start a database deployment, you can access it again and can perform any management operations.

Starting a database deployment is very simple and it is similar to powering on a computer or laptop. 

When database deployment is started, its CPU and RAM are allocated. As a result, it consumes OCPU and memory resources and so metering and billing of these resources are started.

In this article we will demonstrate how to start a Database Cloud Service Database Deployment.

Steps to Start a Database Cloud Service Database Deployment.

• Open a web browser and enter the URL you received in the Welcome email to login to Oracle Cloud Account

• Enter your username and password

• On the home page, Click "Menu" under "Database" Cloud Service as shown below

• Click "Open Service Console"

• On the this page, Click "Menu" as shown

• Click "Start" from the list

• Click "OK" to confirm

• A message displays that the start request is accepted

• We can see that the status has changed to "Service Maintenance". Click on Instance name "NSM-DBaaS"

• We can see that the status is still under "Service Maintenance.."

• We can now see that the status has changed to Ready"

Login to the Oracle Cloud Compute Node to verify that the server is not accessible.

• Open PuTTY session on your desktop and enter Compute Node IP address

• On the left pane, expand "SSH" and select "Auth". On the right pane, click on "Browse" button. Select the Private Key that matches the Public Key for your Deployment. Click "Open"

• Login as opc user, check uptime and verify the database status

Conclusion

In this article we have learned how to start a Database Cloud Service Database Deployment. Starting a database deployment is very simple and it is similar to powering on a computer or laptop. When database deployment is started, its CPU and RAM are allocated. As a result, it consumes OCPU and memory resources and so metering and billing of these resources are started.