Last week, we announced a new version of Data Services Manager (DSM), version 2.2. One of the key features added to this release is the ability to provision Postgres databases across multiple vSphere clusters, allowing for much higher levels of database availability than ever before. This video will show you how to create an infrastructure policy that enables this cross vSphere cluster topology, as well as how to consume this policy when provisioning a Postgres database from within the DSM portal/UI. The result of this is that DSM will place the primary node, replica node and Monitor of the Postgres…
It gives me great pleasure to announced that the latest version of Data Services Manger (DSM) is now available. Version 2.2 has a wealth of new features related to the deployment, management and monitoring of data services on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). I will share these features in greater detail in this post, but please also refer to the official DSM 2.2 documentation for further information. Let’s get started. Multi-Cluster Deployments for increased availability In previous versions of DSM, databases and data services could be provisioned in two modes. The first is standalone mode which deploys the data service as…
I’m delighted to have received an invite to the UK VMUG UserCon once again this year. This time it is back at the National Motorcycle Museum, very close to Birmingham Airport and takes place on Thursday, November 28th. I’ll be using the opportunity to provide an update on all things Data Services related. I will also provide some updates around the data services announcements that you may have heard from VMware Explore in Barcelona earlier this month. My good pal Duncan Epping is also traveling over this year to give an update on vSAN and all things storage related here…
I recently has a question about retrieving the Certificate Authority (CA) from a PostgreSQL database which has been provisioned by Data Services Manager (DSM). The customer in question wanted his clients to use the verify-ca option on database connections for additional security. To allow secure connections with verify-ca, the CA needs to be downloaded from the database to the device where the client is making the connection from. In this post, we will go through how to get the certificate so that the Verify-CA option is used to make client connections to a PostgreSQL database secure. Note that this is…
We have recently released a new update to Data Services Manager (DSM), bringing the latest version to 2.1.3. In the release notes, you will find reference to a new customer-requested feature, namely feature called Postgres Host-Based Authentication Configuration API. In a nutshell, this features enables users to make updates to the pg_hba.conf file via the gateway API available in DSM. This file essentially controls who can access a particular database, and from which network. Definitely a useful feature, and so I wanted to try it out and provide the steps on how to use this new hbaRef API. I created…
Autumn has arrived in Europe. That can only mean one thing – VMware Explore is almost here. This year, it is once again back in the beautiful city of Barcelona, and I am delighted to be presenting again. This year I only have one two speaking slots. The first is VCFB1809BCN – Accelerate App Innovation with VMware Cloud Foundation Data Services. I’ll be delivering this session with the Data Services Manager (DSM) Product Manager, Junchi Zhang. So if you are looking at a way to provision, manage and monitor open source, modern databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL running on…
In my previous blog posts on Data Services Manager, I showed how to integrate DSM with both Aria Automation and the Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI). However, another DSM integration available to our customers is through VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions. Customers, especially Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), can now leverage this integration to allow their tenants to provision both Postgres and MySQL databases through DSM, whilst all the same time getting all of the day 2 features of DSM managed databases. This includes lifecycle-management, automatic backup and restore, LDAPS integrated access control to the database and so on. Now,…