Data Services Manager 9.0 Announced

I am delighted to announce that Data Services Manager version 9.0, the data services product for VMware Cloud foundation, is now available. This post will highlight a few of the major “big ticket” items that are included with this latest release. However, the first thing I do wish to bring to your attention is that there is no dependency on VCF 9.0 to use DSM 9.0. Customers who are on VCF 5.x (or indeed have VCF subscription), and are not yet in a position to move to VCF 9.x, may also deploy and use DSM 9.0. The customers can continue…

DSM 2.2.1: Aria Automation Integration revisited (Video)

A quick note to highlight that I have published a new video on Data Services Manager integration with Aria Automation. This is on the back of a recent blog post discussing the same topic. This video shows the new config.yaml which makes it easier to include certificate information. It also shows you how to configure primary and secondary Postgres databases for replication purposes. Check it out below.

VMware Data Services Manager 2.2.1 and Aria Automation Enhancements

VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) 2.2.1 is now available with General Availability (GA) status and can be accessed directly from the Broadcom Product download Portal. One major new feature is the ability to now do Subnet Customisation during product installation, something many customers have been requesting. We have also included a number of security fixes, predominantly to address the critical security vulnerability CVE-2025-1094 to improve platform security. However, the purpose of this post is too look at another features which became available at the same time as DSM v2.2.1. This is the plugin for Aria Automation which allows the Service…

Data Services Manager 2.2 on Duncan Epping’s Unexplored Territory podcast

My good pal Duncan Epping invited me onto his Unexplored Territory podcast last week to talk about all things related to Data Services Manager (DSM) version 2.2. We had a good chat about most of the new features that you can expect to find in the latest DSM release. As always, it is pleasure to chat with Duncan on his podcast, so I hope you find it informative and entertaining. Click on the link below to listen.

DSM 2.2: Using the API to change the database admin password

Many of our customers have security policies in place which require all passwords to be rotated on a regular basis. Many of our customers are also looking at ways to automate this process, and avoid having to login via the DSM UI and update all of their database passwords manually. As you can imagine, doing this manually can be a very tedious task. Fortunately, there is way to automate this process via the DSM API for Postgres databases. In this post, I will demonstrate the steps involved to allow you to automate the changing of DSM provisioned database admin passwords…

DSM 2.2: Onboarding existing Postgres Databases into DSM

One feature that many of our customers have asked about is the ability to ingest existing Postgres databases into Data Services Manager (DSM). As part of DSM 2.2, our team has put together a step by step guide into how to achieve this using the logical replication feature available in Postgres. The guide is included here as part of the official DSM 2.2 documentation. I decided to build a stand-alone Postgres database and follow the instructions to get the database into Data Services Manager. I built a Postgres v15.10 database on a VM running Debian 12 (bookworm). I picked up…