With VMware Explore 2023 fast approaching, I thought it might be a good idea to give you some advanced notice about some of the VMware Data Services Manager activities that you will find at The Venetian in Las Vegas. First and foremost, I wanted to give a shout out to VMware Fellow, Christos Karamonolis. Christos is going to share VMware’s vision & strategy for data management. For years (decades?), VMware has been providing the underlying storage infrastructure for storing your bits, bytes and files. Think about how long VMFS has been available as a filesystem for your virtual infrastructure storage…
This session was selected by the VMware User Group (VMUG) for their Global Virtual Event which was held on June 27, 2023. As part of the session, some of the fundamentals of Kubernetes (K8s) are discussed. The talk then moves onto areas where vSphere Administrators can begin to onboard with Kubernetes, particularly when K8s control plane and worker nodes are deployed as a set of virtual machines on top of vSphere infrastructure. The two areas which are discussed in significant detail are the external Load Balancers and the vSphere CSI driver. The talk examines the options for different Load Balancers…
A very short post to let you all know about a new VMware Hands On Lab (HoL). This HoL is focused on getting started with VMware Data Services Manager (DSM). Many readers will have seen the multiple posts that I have been sharing since the beginning of this year on VMware DSM. Now you can get some “hands-on” with the product through the lab. We believe that one of the main use cases for VMware DSM is the self-service of database instances, notably for developers who quickly need to spin up a database instance as part of their testing process.…
The ability to gather logs is an essential part of troubleshooting any product. Logs can help you to resolve issues on your own, but may also be necessary should you need to engage with a technical support organizations. In this post, we will look at the various log bundles which can be gathered from a VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) deployment. We will see the different logs associated with the different layers of VMware DSM. We will also examine which roles have permissions to gather the various log bundles. Roles in VMware DSM Let’s begin with a review of the…
In this post, I want to look at how VMware Data Services Manager v1.5 implements backup, restore and recover operations. I also want to highlight the difference between a restore operations and a recover operation since they are significantly different. We will look at these operations from the point of view of the different databases which are available in DSM, namely PostgreSQL, MySQL and MS SQL Server for Linux. Restore vs. Recover Let’s begin with a discussion on the differences between a restore and a recover in VMware DSM. The most significant difference is that a restore operations recovers the…
I am delighted to announce that VMware Data Services Manager version 1.5 is now generally available. This new version has a number of significant enhancements which I will detail in this post. Many of the updates included in this release are a direct result of the feedback we have received from customers. If you wish to try out VMware Data Services Manager v1.5, you will find it here. For more detailed information on what is included and what is changed in this release, check out the full release notes here. Support for vSphere 8.0.x Prior to this release, VMware Data…
La semaine dernière, nous avons eu une très belle présentation de ma collègue, Chaima Berrachdo. C’était au sujet de VMware Data Services Manager. C’était partie de la VMUG France “virtual events”, et je voudrais à remercier Noham et son equipe pour leur soutien. Pour ceux qui parlent français, j’espère que vous le trouverez utile. Last week, we had a really nice presentation from my colleague, Chaima Berrachdi. This was on the subject of VMware Data Services Manager. This was part of the French VMUG “virtual events”, and I would like to thank Noham and the team for their support. For…