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…
I am delighted to announce that Data Services Manager version 9.0, the data services product for VMware Cloud foundation, is now available. This post will highlight a few of the major “big ticket” items that are included with this latest release. However, the first thing I do wish to bring to your attention is that there is no dependency on VCF 9.0 to use DSM 9.0. Customers who are on VCF 5.x (or indeed have VCF subscription), and are not yet in a position to move to VCF 9.x, may also deploy and use DSM 9.0. The customers can continue…