DSM 9.0.2 – New Microsoft SQL Server Enhancements – SQL Server Agent Support

VMware Data Service Manager 9.0.2.0 has achieved General Availability (GA) status, and is now readily accessible from the Broadcom Download Portal. You can see the full DSM 9.0.2 release notes here. In this post, I want to revisit our efforts to deliver a Microsoft SQL Server data service. As mentioned in a number of previous posts, we continue to work towards a fully supported Microsoft SQL Server data service in DSM. And whilst we do not have a generally available, supported release of this service in DSM version 9.0.2, we have made some significant enhancements once again in this release.…

Getting started with DSM 9.0 – Short Video Series

In the following videos, I demonstrate how to install the VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) 9.0 appliance via the vSphere Client Plugin mechanism. I then take a look at how to to build out first infrastructure policy, which allows a VI Admins to put guard rails around which resource are being consumed by the DSM data services. This prevents data sprawl on your on-premises VCF infrastructure. Lastly, we see how to deploy a new Microsoft SQL Server instance along with a few user databases to demonstrate the new MS SQL Server data service. This is currently in tech preview in…