In an earlier blog post, the steps to provision a database from a database template using VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) were described. We also previously observed that once the DSM provider configuration is complete, some predefined database templates for both MySQL and PostgreSQL become available for publishing. However, there is also an early access model to allow for the deployment of SQL Server databases using DSM. This does require some additional setup steps to manually create the SQL Server database template. This is the purpose of this post. Once again, we are using the latest version of VMware DSM…