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…
It gives me great pleasure to announced that the latest version of Data Services Manger (DSM) is now available. Version 2.2 has a wealth of new features related to the deployment, management and monitoring of data services on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). I will share these features in greater detail in this post, but please also refer to the official DSM 2.2 documentation for further information. Let’s get started. Multi-Cluster Deployments for increased availability In previous versions of DSM, databases and data services could be provisioned in two modes. The first is standalone mode which deploys the data service as…
I’m delighted to have received an invite to the UK VMUG UserCon once again this year. This time it is back at the National Motorcycle Museum, very close to Birmingham Airport and takes place on Thursday, November 28th. I’ll be using the opportunity to provide an update on all things Data Services related. I will also provide some updates around the data services announcements that you may have heard from VMware Explore in Barcelona earlier this month. My good pal Duncan Epping is also traveling over this year to give an update on vSAN and all things storage related here…
I recently has a question about retrieving the Certificate Authority (CA) from a PostgreSQL database which has been provisioned by Data Services Manager (DSM). The customer in question wanted his clients to use the verify-ca option on database connections for additional security. To allow secure connections with verify-ca, the CA needs to be downloaded from the database to the device where the client is making the connection from. In this post, we will go through how to get the certificate so that the Verify-CA option is used to make client connections to a PostgreSQL database secure. Note that this is…
We have recently released a new update to Data Services Manager (DSM), bringing the latest version to 2.1.3. In the release notes, you will find reference to a new customer-requested feature, namely feature called Postgres Host-Based Authentication Configuration API. In a nutshell, this features enables users to make updates to the pg_hba.conf file via the gateway API available in DSM. This file essentially controls who can access a particular database, and from which network. Definitely a useful feature, and so I wanted to try it out and provide the steps on how to use this new hbaRef API. I created…