In a recent post, I demonstrated how you could use the VCF CLI with CCI context to manage VCFA provisioned databases integrated with VMware Data Services Manager. I thought it might be interesting to demonstrate a similar set of steps, but with the objective of creating a Native Object Store. Once again, the VCF Command Line Interface (CLI) would be used, pointing to a VCFA endpoint and using the Cloud Consumption Interface. This would enable us to work in the context of an organization user to make requests. In this post, I will show how to retrieve an API token,…
While there are many use-cases for object storage, I wanted to create a short post to highlight some of the use-cases that I have been trying out in my own lab. Two of the use cases are for backup and logs, and another is as an S3 Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) for Greenplum databases. In the first use-case, I will show you how to configure an S3 bucket for both VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) backups and logs, both for the databases and the provider appliance itself. In a second backup use-case, I will show how you can configure a…
In an earlier post on object storage, we look at the role privieges that VCF Automation users could be assigned within an organization. Since the scope of object storage privileges is at the project level, we also looked at the role of Project Admins and Project Advanced Users. within a project. We saw how a Project Admin could grant access control to different Project Users, creating access control policies to control which s3 actions and which s3 resource that a user was allowed in a given project. In this post, I wanted to take this a little further. As mentioned,…
In a previous post, I highlighted how to get started with Native Object Storage which is in tech preview in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.1.1. In that post, we saw the role of the Provider Admin and the Organization Admin in VCF Automation (VCFA). We saw that the Provider Admin could create object storage on behalf of the tenant users within an organization, but could not actually create or view the buckets on the object store, nor see the access controls or anything else associated with the object store for that matter. We saw that the Org Admin had…
Many readers may have read this blog article on Native Object Storage from my good pal, Pete Koehler. In that post, which was published back in May of this year and coincided with the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.1 release, Pete talked about a tech preview of Native Object Storage. Well, with the release of VCF 9.1.1, the tech preview has now begun. Although the tech preview of Native Object Storage is not open to everybody, we will be working with a select set of customers and gathering critical feedback. Our objective is to have a robust Native Object…