I’ve been adding a number of videos to my Data Services Manager (DSM) 2.1.x playlist on YouTube. The latest additions related to Certificate Management. In particular, I wanted to show viewers how they can add their own custom certificates to both the Data Services Manager Provider appliance/VM as well as to the databases provisioned by DSM. This ensures that connections to the DSM UI, the DSM Gateway API and the databases can be secured and adhere to customer security and compliance requirements. I have added two video below. One shows how to add a custom certificate to the DSM Provider,…
Today sees the release of VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) v2.1.1. To coincide with his release, I decided to create a few short videos to highlight some of the updates we have made to the product. This video demonstrates how to get started with DSM v2.1.1. It shows the how to download the product from the support portal and talks about the use of vSphere client plugins to deploy DSM to your on-premises vSphere infrastructure. It goes on to show how to create your first infrastructure policy to guard-rail your vSphere resources when provisioning databases and data services. The video…