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Table Of Contents
- vCloud Director Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCloud Director Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Overview of vCloud Director Installation, Configuration, and Upgrade
- vCloud Director Architecture
- Configuration Planning
- vCloud Director Hardware and Software Requirements
- Creating a vCloud Director Server Group
- Upgrading vCloud Director
- vCloud Director Setup
- Index
5 Create the vCloud Director database user account.
Do not use the Oracle system account as the vCloud Director database user account. You must create a
dedicated user account for this purpose. Grant the following system privileges to the account:
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CONNECT
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RESOURCE
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CREATE TRIGGER
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CREATE TYPE
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CREATE VIEW
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CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW
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CREATE PROCEDURE
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CREATE SEQUENCE
6 Note the database service name so you can use it when you configure network and database connections.
To find the database service name, open the file $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tsnames.ora on the database
server and look for an entry of the following form:
(SERVICE_NAME = orcl.example.com)
Configure a Microsoft SQL Server Database
SQL Server databases have specific configuration requirements when you use them with vCloud Director.
Install and configure a database instance, and create the vCloud Director database user account before you
install vCloud Director.
vCloud Director database performance is an important factor in overall vCloud Director performance and
scalability. vCloud Director uses the SQL Server tmpdb file when storing large result sets, sorting data, and
managing data that is being concurrently read and modified. This file can grow significantly when
vCloud Director is experiencing heavy concurrent load. It is a good practice to create the tmpdb file on a
dedicated volume that has fast read and write performance. For more information about the tmpdb file and
SQL Server performance, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175527.aspx.
Prerequisites
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You must be familiar with Microsoft SQL Server commands, scripting, and operation.
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To configure Microsoft SQL Server, log on to the SQL Server host computer using administrator
credentials. You can configure SQL server to run with the LOCAL_SYSTEM identity, or any identity with
the privilege to run a Windows service.
Procedure
1 Configure the database server.
A database server configured with 16GB of memory, 100GB storage, and 4 CPUs should be adequate for
most vCloud Director clusters.
2 Specify Mixed Mode authentication during SQL Server setup.
Windows Authentication is not supported when using SQL Server with vCloud Director.
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