We have made significant improvements to the integration between Data Services Manager (DSM) 9.0.1 and VCF Operations 9.0.1. In version 9.0, the setup to send metrics from DSM to VCF Ops was a little complex, as per this earlier blog post on the subject. In DSM v9.0.1, we’ve added the majority of the steps into the DSM UI to make it much easier and much more straight to configure. Let’s see how in this post. First, login to the DSM UI as a DSM Administrator. Navigate to the Settings menu on the left hand side. Here you will find the…
In the DSM 9.0 Release Notes, the following item about metrics is listed in the What’s New section: You can use the VMware Data Services Manager API to publish PostgreSQL and MySQL metrics to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 (VCF) Operations and Prometheus [..] enabling better visibility, alerting, and performance management for all databases that VMware Data Services manages. In this post, I will show how to configure DSM 9.0 to send Postgres and MySQL database metrics to VCF 9.0 Operations. While this process is rather manual in VCF 9.0, we plan to significantly improve this overall experience for users going forward.…