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.
Ever have one of those moments when you realised “Oh shoot! I didn’t mean to delete that!”. Now imagine if that thing was a production database. Ouch! But not to worry. With Data Services Manager version 2.2 we have you covered. This release has a new feature called Database Delete Protection. Now if you delete a database, we will keep its backups archived for 30 days by default. This means you can restore the deleted database for up to 30 days after the database was deleted. This is a much sought-after feature that many of our customer has requested. Check…
I have another new video to share with you today. This looks at another new feature of Data Services Manager version 2.2. This feature is the ability to scale down the virtual machine resources associated with a Postgres database VM. The ability to scale up the virtual machines resources has been available for some time, but this is the first time we have had scale down capabilities. As you will see in the video, it is done by choosing a different VM Class for the database. VM Classes are defined in the Infrastructure Policy. So now if you expect a…
I have another short video to share with you. This video demonstrates some of the new enhancements made to the user experience of Data Services Manager (DSM) 2.2. The video focuses mainly on certificate management and authentication, specifically HBA or host based authentication. I show how you can add a custom certificate chain and private key when provisioning a database via DSM 2.2. I also show you how to add additional entries to the pg_hba.conf file via the UI at deployment time so that you can add or deny database access to certain users from certain networks. I also show…
In DSM 2.2, we are partnering with MinIO to offer a technical preview of a new Object Storage service. This service allows DSM customers to provision Object Storage on their VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments while enjoying all of the fleet management capabilities offered by DSM. There are a few steps to get the Object Store service configured. In this post, I will go through the setup and demonstrate how a small storage pool is deployed along with the Object Store control plane and Object Store database. Prerequisites You will need to source a MinIO AIStor license, even for testing…
This is the second in a series of videos related to Data Services Manager (DSM) version 2.2 from VMware by Broadcom. In this video, we examine how to configure replication between a primary and a secondary Postgres database. Whilst the video shows the replication being configured between a primary and secondary database managed by the same DSM provider, replication could also be configured between a primary and secondary database managed by different DSM providers. Thus, the primary database could reside on infrastructure managed by one vCenter server, and replicate to a secondary database on infrastructure managed by a completely different…
Last week, we announced a new version of Data Services Manager (DSM), version 2.2. One of the key features added to this release is the ability to provision Postgres databases across multiple vSphere clusters, allowing for much higher levels of database availability than ever before. This video will show you how to create an infrastructure policy that enables this cross vSphere cluster topology, as well as how to consume this policy when provisioning a Postgres database from within the DSM portal/UI. The result of this is that DSM will place the primary node, replica node and Monitor of the Postgres…