I was recently asked to assist with some troubleshooting of the Email Alerting mechanism in Data Services Manager (DSM). The first thing to note is that there are different types of alerts that can be raised and emailed in DSM. The first type are Global Alerts, and these are emailed to the DSM Admin. The second type are Database Alerts, and these are emailed to all of the DSM Users (permissions) who are part of the DSM Namespace where the database is provisioned. Those of you familiar with Data Services Manager will know DSM Users are granted permission to provision…
In my VMware Data Services Manager 9.1 launch post, I mentioned that this release now has the ability to use vSAN ESA snapshots to create a copy of a MySQL database. I also mentioned that this snapshot could then be used to very quickly spin up additional copies of the database using the “clone from snapshot” feature. I also mentioned that this feature is not yet plumbed up into the VCF Automation UI, but that it is available via the API. And since that is the case, it is then possible to go ahead and create VCF Automation blueprint. The…
In my most recent post, we looked at the steps to deploy the new Data Services Manager 9.1 SQL Server data service. In that post, we created an infrastructure policy to allocate vSphere resources such as CPU, Memory, Networking and Storage to the SQL Server Engine and subsequent databases. We saw how this approach can offer a DBaaS (Database as a Service) to your end-users, allowing consumers to use the DSM portal to provision their own databases on an existing SQL Server instance. In this post, we want to take that a step further and show how Data Services Manager…
It gives me great pleasure to announce the availability of Data Services Manger version 9.1. This releases sees a new data service, Microsoft SQL Server, now included in Data Services Manager. I know many of our customers are anticipating this data service, so it is great to finally announce it. The Data Services Manager 9.1 release also brings tighter integration with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.1 and VCF Automation version 9.1. Both of these exciting features will be covered in deep-dive posts over the coming weeks, but today, I want this post to briefly highlight all of the new…
A very quick message to let you know that I was recently invited to present on VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) by our VMware TAM (Technical Account Manager) Services team. In the video, I provide an update to our TAM customers on our current DSM version 9.0.2, and give some insight into our latest tech preview of the Microsoft SQL Server DBaaS service as well as a demonstration on how our full integration of DSM into VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x and VCF Automation is progressing. Hope you find it useful and informative. Feel free to reach out to me via…
One of the new features in VCF Automation version 9.0.1 is a feature called vSphere Kubernetes Service Management, or VKSM for short. This gives users access to many additional capabilities, such as Data Protection, Policy Management and Add-on Management to improve the resiliency, security, and functionality of your VKS clusters. In this post, I wanted to take a look at the Data Protection capability (VKSM DP for short), as this is something I looked at quite closely in the past. To demonstrate, we will first configure a backup location, then enable Data Protection, then test a backup and restore of…
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…