In my VMware Data Services Manager 9.1 launch post, I mentioned that this release now has the ability to use vSAN ESA snapshots to create a copy of a MySQL database. I also mentioned that this snapshot could then be used to very quickly spin up additional copies of the database using the “clone from snapshot” feature. I also mentioned that this feature is not yet plumbed up into the VCF Automation UI, but that it is available via the API. And since that is the case, it is then possible to go ahead and create VCF Automation blueprint. The…
In my most recent post, we looked at the steps to deploy the new Data Services Manager 9.1 SQL Server data service. In that post, we created an infrastructure policy to allocate vSphere resources such as CPU, Memory, Networking and Storage to the SQL Server Engine and subsequent databases. We saw how this approach can offer a DBaaS (Database as a Service) to your end-users, allowing consumers to use the DSM portal to provision their own databases on an existing SQL Server instance. In this post, we want to take that a step further and show how Data Services Manager…
Now that Data Services Manager version 9.1 is officially announced, I thought this would be a good time to step through the configuration of our new data service, Microsoft SQL Server. This is possibly the most requested data service I have heard from our customers since I started discussing Data Services Manager (DSM). Therefore I am personally very happy that SQL Server is now available in the 9.1 version of the product. There are a number of steps that need to followed to get this data service up and running, and note that I am only doing this in the…
It gives me great pleasure to announce the availability of Data Services Manger version 9.1. This releases sees a new data service, Microsoft SQL Server, now included in Data Services Manager. I know many of our customers are anticipating this data service, so it is great to finally announce it. The Data Services Manager 9.1 release also brings tighter integration with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.1 and VCF Automation version 9.1. Both of these exciting features will be covered in deep-dive posts over the coming weeks, but today, I want this post to briefly highlight all of the new…