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OCI Compute shape compatibility change
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides you the ability to edit and change your
instance according to your needs. It also allows you to change your instance shape
from Intel to AMD and vice versa.

In some cases, older images aren't supported and cannot be changed from one shape
to another. In those cases, when trying, you might receive the following error
message: "Either the image isn't compatible with flexible shapes, or flexible
shapes aren't supported in this availability domain." Learn More

In this guide, i will show how to change shape platforms using OCI CLI. First, you
need to take in mind the following considerations.

Considerations:
If the instance is your production instance, do not perform it while it's running,
this might affect the instance availability. In that case you can do the following:

Go to the instance, follow it's "boot volume", and perform a boot volume "clone".
Create an instance from that boot volume "clone".
Create a "custom image" from that instance (take in mind that "Custom Image"
creation suspsends the instance and affects it's availability).
In case your instance is not "production" and can be turned off, then create from
your instance a custom image (take in mind that "Custom Image" creation suspsends
the instance and affects it's availability).

::: Disclaimer :::

This procedure is at your own risk!
It is not an Oracle's official procedure although it supports and using the OCI
CLI.
Please backup your system before performing any changes and give yourself the
ability to rollback.
Run this test on a standalone instance first before running it on your prodcution.

Once you have your instance "custom image", copy it's OCID and access an OCI CLI
(using your oci cli on your computer, or using OCI CloudShell) and run the
following command:

oci compute image-shape-compatibility-entry add --image-id "<image-id>" --shape-

name "$shape"
You need to replace the instance / object specific parameters to match your
entities while executing the command.

Command README
--image-id Your Image OCID
--shape-name The Shape name you want to switch to
This command is allows the image to participate in larger shape types. this command
is part of achieved by the OCI CLI reference using the image-shape-compatibility-
entry.

that said, if i want to add your image be able to change from Intel based shape to
an AMD based and you get the error from the console then you can look at this
example to achieve your goal.

Example: From "VM.Standard2.2" shape to "VM.Standard.E3.Flex" NOTE: the name of

the shape is case sensitive.

oci compute image-shape-compatibility-entry add --image-id ocid1.image.oc1.eu-

frankfurt-1.aaaabc543677.hellow0rldh3rewearegenerating50metextforexamples1234556 --
shape-name VM.Standard.E3.Flex

A collegue (Avi Hirsh), created a sample script that add's all the shapes to the
image compatibility list. for that do the following:

create a sample text file. you can call it "oci-shapes.txt" if you want.
add the following entries tot hat file (those are shape names using case
sensitive):
VM.Standard.E3.Flex
BM.Standard.E3.128
BM.Standard2.52
BM.Standard.E2.64
BM.DenseIO2.52
BM.HPC2.36
BM.Standard1.36
VM.Standard2.1
VM.Standard2.2
VM.Standard2.4
VM.Standard2.8
VM.Standard2.16
VM.Standard2.24
VM.Standard.E2.1
VM.Standard.E2.2
VM.Standard.E2.4
VM.Standard.E2.8
VM.DenseIO2.8
VM.DenseIO2.16
VM.DenseIO2.24
VM.Standard1.1
VM.Standard1.2
VM.Standard1.4
VM.Standard1.8
VM.Standard1.16
BM.GPU2.2
VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro
VM.GPU2.1
Create a file to execute the command and take the instance shapes. you can call the
file "oci-compute-shape-list-add.sh"
cat oci_shapes.txt | grep . |
while read shape; do
oci compute image-shape-compatibility-entry add --image-id "<image-id>" --shape-
name "$shape"
done
on a computer has OCI CLI installed, give permissions to this file (oci-compute-
shape-list-add.sh) in order to be able to run it and execute the script.
Good Luck!

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