Reference Guide

1.6
Sign Up for the vCloud Air SQL Service
Before signing up, verify that your OnDemand account has the Account Administrator role, and be sure
to have your service ID, as described in Obtain an OnDemand Account.
• Visit vCloud Air SQL at http://www.vmware.com/cloud-services/develop/vcloud-air-sql.html
Click the yellow Sign Up button.
• Fill out the application and click Submit. You might get a response that the Early Access program
• You will receive an invitation email from [e-mail].
• Submit an acceptance.
• You will eventually receive a notice that your account is activated, and you are given the role
Policy Administrator. See vCloud Air SQL Roles.
Note: This is the start of the billing cycle if your account is new. If you had an existing
OnDemand account the service is added to the billing cycle in progress.
1.7
Understand vCloud Air SQL Security
Figure 1 depicts a high-level view of vCloud Air. On the left is an on-premises data center connecting
through the cloud to vCloud Air. Within vCloud Air we have a virtual data center (vDC) created with the
OnDemand service, and the vCloud Air SQL service. Both the vDC and vCloud Air SQL are isolated
network spaces that can use the internal Service Network to communicate.
vCloud Air SQL security is built in at the network level, where you can restrict IP addresses and gateway
access at the service level or the instance level. You can also secure access at the server and instance
level with vCloud Air SQL user roles. Finally, vCloud Air SQL instances can interact with SQL Server user
authentication.
Figure1: vCloud Air SQL Architecture Overview
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