A common question I get asked when giving talks on Data Service Manager (DSM) version 2.0 is “what happens to the databases and data services when the DSM appliance / provider has an outage?” The simple answer is that nothing happens to your data services or databases – they will continue to run as before. Of course, without the DSM appliance, you do not have access to the UI to manage and monitor the databases, nor do you have access to the gateway API. Therefore it won’t be possible to provision new data services. So the next obvious question is…
In this post, I want to look at how VMware Data Services Manager v1.5 implements backup, restore and recover operations. I also want to highlight the difference between a restore operations and a recover operation since they are significantly different. We will look at these operations from the point of view of the different databases which are available in DSM, namely PostgreSQL, MySQL and MS SQL Server for Linux. Restore vs. Recover Let’s begin with a discussion on the differences between a restore and a recover in VMware DSM. The most significant difference is that a restore operations recovers the…