La semaine dernière, nous avons eu une très belle présentation de ma collègue, Chaima Berrachdo. C’était au sujet de VMware Data Services Manager. C’était partie de la VMUG France “virtual events”, et je voudrais à remercier Noham et son equipe pour leur soutien. Pour ceux qui parlent français, j’espère que vous le trouverez utile. Last week, we had a really nice presentation from my colleague, Chaima Berrachdi. This was on the subject of VMware Data Services Manager. This was part of the French VMUG “virtual events”, and I would like to thank Noham and the team for their support. For…
I had a recent question about integrating VMware Data Services Manager v1.4 with Microsoft Active Directory for users. This is indeed possible. In this post, I will demonstrate how Organization Admins and Organization Users can be integrated as Active Directory users, and subsequently granted access to Data Services Manager. This is achieved by configuring the LDAP settings in DSM to communicate with Active Directory in this example. The configuration steps include creating two AD Groups in AD, one for Org Admins and one for Org Users. These groups will then be added to one or more organizations in my DSM…
VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) v1.4 has a substantial amount of built-in monitoring, not just for analyzing the health and behaviour of the vSphere environments where the databases are running, but also the databases themselves. In this post, I will highlight what those metrics are, and where to find them in the Provider UI. We will begin by looking at the ‘Environment’ monitoring and metrics, before turning our attention to the ‘Database’. Environment The first interesting view of an environment is the Health. This view shows us the health of the agent, and whether any of the major components that…