Now that Data Services Manager version 9.1 is officially announced, I thought this would be a good time to step through the configuration of our new data service, Microsoft SQL Server. This is possibly the most requested data service I have heard from our customers since I started discussing Data Services Manager (DSM). Therefore I am personally very happy that SQL Server is now available in the 9.1 version of the product. There are a number of steps that need to followed to get this data service up and running, and note that I am only doing this in the…
It gives me great pleasure to announce the availability of Data Services Manger version 9.1. This releases sees a new data service, Microsoft SQL Server, now included in Data Services Manager. I know many of our customers are anticipating this data service, so it is great to finally announce it. The Data Services Manager 9.1 release also brings tighter integration with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.1 and VCF Automation version 9.1. Both of these exciting features will be covered in deep-dive posts over the coming weeks, but today, I want this post to briefly highlight all of the new…
A very quick message to let you know that I was recently invited to present on VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) by our VMware TAM (Technical Account Manager) Services team. In the video, I provide an update to our TAM customers on our current DSM version 9.0.2, and give some insight into our latest tech preview of the Microsoft SQL Server DBaaS service as well as a demonstration on how our full integration of DSM into VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x and VCF Automation is progressing. Hope you find it useful and informative. Feel free to reach out to me via…
VMware Data Service Manager 9.0.2.0 has achieved General Availability (GA) status, and is now readily accessible from the Broadcom Download Portal. You can see the full DSM 9.0.2 release notes here. In this post, I want to revisit our efforts to integrate DSM with Aria Automation. It is true to say that most of our efforts are going into integrating VMware Data Services Manager 9.x with VMware Cloud Foundation Automation 9.x. However, many customer are still on their journey to VCF 9.x, and continue to use earlier versions of our products. One such product that our customers are still using…
VMware Data Service Manager 9.0.2.0 has achieved General Availability (GA) status, and is now readily accessible from the Broadcom Download Portal. You can see the full DSM 9.0.2 release notes here. In this post, I want to revisit our efforts to deliver a Microsoft SQL Server data service. As mentioned in a number of previous posts, we continue to work towards a fully supported Microsoft SQL Server data service in DSM. And whilst we do not have a generally available, supported release of this service in DSM version 9.0.2, we have made some significant enhancements once again in this release.…
It’s been some time since I looked at how to use the Velero CLI to backup and restore some modern applications running in a Kubernetes cluster. However, after publishing how to use the new VKS Manager (VKSM) Data Protection (DP) earlier this week, it was mentioned that many customers who are on their VCF 9.x journey and who are using the Supervisor and vSphere Kubernetes Service to deploy VKS clusters, have not yet deployed VCF Automation into their VCF stack. This means that they do not have VKSM DP available to them just yet. So the question was whether or…
One of the new features in VCF Automation version 9.0.1 is a feature called vSphere Kubernetes Service Management, or VKSM for short. This gives users access to many additional capabilities, such as Data Protection, Policy Management and Add-on Management to improve the resiliency, security, and functionality of your VKS clusters. In this post, I wanted to take a look at the Data Protection capability (VKSM DP for short), as this is something I looked at quite closely in the past. To demonstrate, we will first configure a backup location, then enable Data Protection, then test a backup and restore of…