Now that Data Services Manager 9.0 has been officially announced, more and more customers are beginning to realise what this add-on to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) can do for their respective organizations who are looking for an on-premises database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solution. Simultaneously, I’ve received a number of queries asking me to articulate the benefits of DSM. Although DSM has been around for a number of years now, it would appear that the VCF 9.0 launch has brought it to the attention of more of our customers. In this post, I will attempt to highlight the overall benefits of DSM. I…
The purpose of this post is to highlight the latest integration between Data Services Manager (DSM) version 9.0 and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.0. Namely, I want to show how DSM is now tightly coupled into VCF Automation (VCFA), providing multi-tenancy and allowing different tenants in different organisations to provision database and data services via DSM. In this post, I will describe the configuration steps which connects DSM and VCFA, as well as showing how a tenant in a VCFA organization can deploy a Postgres database. There are more great things to come as we integrate even more tightly,…
As I highlighted in my previous post, we are delighted to announce that Microsoft SQL Server is now a technical preview in Data Services Manager version 9.0. This is one of the most requested data services that customers have been asking for. We have heard requests for MS SQL Server at various DSM events held over the past year or so. It’s great to finally have this as a service we can offer our customers, not just the day 0 provisioning aspect, but also the various day 2 operations including backup & restore, patching, certificate management, cloning, monitoring, etc, as…
I am delighted to announce that Data Services Manager version 9.0, the data services product for VMware Cloud foundation, is now available. This post will highlight a few of the major “big ticket” items that are included with this latest release. However, the first thing I do wish to bring to your attention is that there is no dependency on VCF 9.0 to use DSM 9.0. Customers who are on VCF 5.x (or indeed have VCF subscription), and are not yet in a position to move to VCF 9.x, may also deploy and use DSM 9.0. The customers can continue…
A quick note to highlight that I have published a new video on Data Services Manager integration with Aria Automation. This is on the back of a recent blog post discussing the same topic. This video shows the new config.yaml which makes it easier to include certificate information. It also shows you how to configure primary and secondary Postgres databases for replication purposes. Check it out below.
VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) 2.2.1 is now available with General Availability (GA) status and can be accessed directly from the Broadcom Product download Portal. One major new feature is the ability to now do Subnet Customisation during product installation, something many customers have been requesting. We have also included a number of security fixes, predominantly to address the critical security vulnerability CVE-2025-1094 to improve platform security. However, the purpose of this post is too look at another features which became available at the same time as DSM v2.2.1. This is the plugin for Aria Automation which allows the Service…
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.