In my previous post, I showed how the VCF Consumption CLI could be used to provision a MySQL database when Data Services Manager is integrated with VCF Automation. We could use the same VCF Consumption CLI to provision Postgres databases also. However, I wanted to show you another way that databases could be provisioned using blueprints in VCF Automation (VCFA). Readers may find this useful as it will allow you to track MySQL database instances provisioned via VCF Automation, even though the MySQL Data Service Policy and MySQL databases are not currently plumbed up into the VCFA UI (his will…
In Data Services Manager 9.0.1, we decided to remove the ability to create MySQL Data Service Policies (DSP) from VCF Automation (VCFA) UI until we can also provision MySQL databases end-to-end. Even though you could create a Data Service Policy via the UI in VCFA 9.0/DSM 9.0, you still had to use the API to create the database. We decided this might be a little confusing, so we disabled the MySQL DSP step in the UI for now and will re-enable it when we can provide the ability to create both MySQL DSP and MySQL database. However, for those of…
In this post, I will look at the steps involved in creating your own Harbor Registry, setting it up as a Supervisor Container Registry, and then pulling DSM Consumption Operator images for version 9.0.1 from the DSM appliance and pushing them up to the Harbor Registry. We will then deploy the Consumption Operator using the images in the Harbor registry, and modify the package.yaml and values.yaml to provide a true air-gapped environment for DSM 9.0.1. Other image registries can also be used. Overview of Steps If you operate in an air-gapped environment, you can use images and manifests bundled in…
This post began as a request from one of our customers. They wanted to know how one would go about allowing a select set of clients access a select set of databases provisioned by Data Services Manager, whilst simultaneously preventing access to other databases. I put my head together with my DSM buddy Thomas and came up with the following solution. We thought it interesting enough to share in a blog post, but we may also put this into the official DSM docs as well. Whilst this is using VCF 9.0 and new constructs such as VPCs and VPC subnets,…
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…