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About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume provide customers reliable, high-performance block storage designed to work with a range of virtual machines and bare metal instances. With built-in redundancy, Block Volumes are persistent and durable beyond the lifespan of a virtual machine and can scale to 1 PB per compute instance. All volumes have built-in durability and run on redundant hardware to achieve high reliability. Back up block and boot volumes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage to enable frequent recovery points. Easily optimize storage size without provisioning constraints. Extend existing block and boot volumes from 50 GB to 32 TB while they are online, and without any impact to applications and workloads. Clone existing volumes or restore from backups to move to larger volumes. Easily clone existing block volumes without initiating the backup and restore process.
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