This section covers procedures for working with VDBs from the CLI.

Attach or detach PDBs

Attach, detach, or link CDBs

Change SGA parameters

Change the SID of Oracle RAC VDBs

Toggle new DBID generation upon refresh for Oracle VDBs

Create policies

Create VDB config templates

Get snapshots used to provision VDBs

Delete a CDB after migrating its vPDB

Refresh VDBs from specific snapshots

Migrate Oracle VDBs

Provision SAP ASE VDBs

Provision single instance non-multitenant Oracle VDBs

Provision SQL Server VDBs

Provision SQL Server AG VDBs

Provision VDBs from Timeflow bookmarks

Provision virtual PDBs to new virtual CDBs

Provision virtual PDBs in target CDBs

Provision TDE-enabled virtual PDBs to new virtual CDBs

Provision TDE-enabled vPDBs in target CDBs

Refresh VDBs from specific timepoints or latest

Refresh VDBs from related VDBs

Repair Timeflows

Roll back VDBs

Roll forward VDBs

Take snapshots

Virtual to Physical (V2P) operation on single instance non-multitenant Oracle databases

Virtual to Physical (V2P) operation on single instance Oracle databases with datafiles on separate file systems

Virtual to Physical (V2P) operation on a non-multitenant virtual Oracle database to ASM or Physical Filesystem

Virtual to Physical (V2P) operation on a multitenant virtual pluggable Oracle database to ASM or Physical Filesystem

Virtual to Physical (V2P) operation from a snapshot or a Timeflow point of a multitenant pluggable Oracle database to ASM or Physical Filesystem

Virtual to Physical (V2P) operation from a snapshot or a Timeflow point of a non-multitenant Oracle database to ASM or Physical Filesystem

V2P on SQL Servers

Get VDB statuses

Provision virtual PDBs from non-multitenant source databases

Migrate virtual PDBs in virtual CDBs

Migrate vPDBs to different CDBs

Migrate a virtual CDB and its only virtual PDB to a new environment

Migrate Oracle RAC virtual PDBs in virtual CDBs

Locate and update tdeKeyIdentifier

Force refresh or rewind virtual PDBs

Start or stop cluster instances of Oracle RAC virtual databases

Update Oracle Isolated Mode TDE attributes of vPDBs

Finalize the Incremental V2P operation for Oracle VDBs or vPDBs

Clean up the V2P configuration for VDBs or vPDBs

Update okvClient for linked or virtual CDBs

Last updated
Oct 9, 2026