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…
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…
I recently has a question about retrieving the Certificate Authority (CA) from a PostgreSQL database which has been provisioned by Data Services Manager (DSM). The customer in question wanted his clients to use the verify-ca option on database connections for additional security. To allow secure connections with verify-ca, the CA needs to be downloaded from the database to the device where the client is making the connection from. In this post, we will go through how to get the certificate so that the Verify-CA option is used to make client connections to a PostgreSQL database secure. Note that this is…
We have recently released a new update to Data Services Manager (DSM), bringing the latest version to 2.1.3. In the release notes, you will find reference to a new customer-requested feature, namely feature called Postgres Host-Based Authentication Configuration API. In a nutshell, this features enables users to make updates to the pg_hba.conf file via the gateway API available in DSM. This file essentially controls who can access a particular database, and from which network. Definitely a useful feature, and so I wanted to try it out and provide the steps on how to use this new hbaRef API. I created…
Autumn has arrived in Europe. That can only mean one thing – VMware Explore is almost here. This year, it is once again back in the beautiful city of Barcelona, and I am delighted to be presenting again. This year I only have one two speaking slots. The first is VCFB1809BCN – Accelerate App Innovation with VMware Cloud Foundation Data Services. I’ll be delivering this session with the Data Services Manager (DSM) Product Manager, Junchi Zhang. So if you are looking at a way to provision, manage and monitor open source, modern databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL running on…
Earlier this week, I published an blog on how to replace the certificates on the DSM Provider VM/Appliance with an admin’s own custom certificates for secure communication to the appliance. In this post, I want to do something similar, but this time show how an admin can add a custom certificate to a DSM provisioned database. This means that customers will be able to add additional trust and security measures to the connections that clients are making to the databases. The process will be quite similar to that outlined in the previous post for the appliance. Once again, I will…