Getting started with DSM 9.0 – Short Video Series

In the following videos, I demonstrate how to install the VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) 9.0 appliance via the vSphere Client Plugin mechanism. I then take a look at how to to build out first infrastructure policy, which allows a VI Admins to put guard rails around which resource are being consumed by the DSM data services. This prevents data sprawl on your on-premises VCF infrastructure. Lastly, we see how to deploy a new Microsoft SQL Server instance along with a few user databases to demonstrate the new MS SQL Server data service. This is currently in tech preview in…

Creating firewall rules in NSX to control client access to DSM provisioned databases

This post began as a request from one of our customers. They wanted to know how one would go about allowing a select set of clients access a select set of databases provisioned by Data Services Manager, whilst simultaneously preventing access to other databases. I put my head together with my DSM buddy Thomas and came up with the following solution. We thought it interesting enough to share in a blog post, but we may also put this into the official DSM docs as well. Whilst this is using VCF 9.0 and new constructs such as VPCs and VPC subnets,…

Data Services Manager 9.0 with VCF 9.0 and VCF Automation

The purpose of this post is to highlight the latest integration between Data Services Manager (DSM) version 9.0 and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.0. Namely, I want to show how DSM is now tightly coupled into VCF Automation (VCFA), providing multi-tenancy and allowing different tenants in different organisations to provision database and data services via DSM. In this post, I will describe the configuration steps which connects DSM and VCFA, as well as showing how a tenant in a VCFA organization can deploy a Postgres database. There are more great things to come as we integrate even more tightly,…

Microsoft SQL Server now tech preview in Data Services Manager 9.0

As I highlighted in my previous post, we are delighted to announce that Microsoft SQL Server is now a technical preview in Data Services Manager version 9.0. This is one of the most requested data services that customers have been asking for. We have heard requests for MS SQL Server at various DSM events held over the past year or so. It’s great to finally have this as a service we can offer our customers, not just the day 0 provisioning aspect, but also the various day 2 operations including backup & restore, patching, certificate management, cloning, monitoring, etc, as…

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…