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Table Of Contents
- VMware vFabric Data Director Administrator and User Guide
- Contents
- About VMware vFabric Data Director
- Updated Information
- VMware vFabric Data Director and vFabric Postgres Overview
- Managing Data Director Resources
- Managing Users and Roles
- Managing Organizations
- Managing Database Groups
- Managing Database Templates
- Managing Databases
- Cloning Databases
- Managing Database Entities
- Safeguarding Data
- Monitoring the Data Director Environment
- Managing Licenses
- Reconfiguring Data Director Networks
- Change the vCenter IP Address
- Reconfigure the Web Console Network Mapping or Network Adapter
- Reconfigure the vCenter Network Mapping
- Reconfigure the vCenter Network Adapter Settings
- Reconfigure the DB Name Service Network or DB Name Service Network Adapter
- Reconfigure the Internal Network or Internal Network Adapter Mapping
- Verify Network Settings in Data Director
- Data Director Troubleshooting
- Index
VMware vFabric Data Director and
vFabric Postgres Overview 1
The VMware vFabric Data Director and vFabric Postgres software solutions enable you to provide on-site self-
service database provisioning and automation to database administrators and application developers.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“VMware vFabric Data Director System Architecture,” on page 11
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“VMware vFabric Data Director Components,” on page 11
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“Data Director User Management Modes,” on page 12
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“About Data Director Administration,” on page 13
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“vFabric Postgres Databases,” on page 14
VMware vFabric Data Director System Architecture
The Data Director architecture provides database as a service (DBaaS) to application developers with security
and resource isolation as well as flexible, policy-based resource management and role-based access control for
system administrators. Data Director is optimized for VMware vSphere.
At the system level, Data Director supports flexible, policy-based resource management and provides resource
isolation between organizations and databases. As a Data Director system administrator, you can implement
security policies through role-based access control, controlling users' allowed actions with customizable roles
and privileges that you delegate and grant as required.
Within organizations, Data Director offers self-service database lifecycle management for VMware vFabric
Postgres (vPostgres) databases. You control database parameters with customizable database configuration
and database backup templates. These templates simplify database creation and provisioning for application
developers. Developers can create databases and allocate resources for them, manage schemas, set up backups
and perform restores, clone databases for testing and development, scale database sizes up, and decommission
databases without assistance.
The vPostgres database is based on the open source Postgres database, an ACID-compliant, ANSI-SQL-
compliant transactional relational database. The database optimized for vSphere and is compatible with
Postgres client tools and drivers.
VMware vFabric Data Director Components
VMware vFabric Data Director consists of the database lifecycle management platform and vFabric Postgres
(vPostgres).
The Data Director hierarchy has the following levels.
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System (the database lifecycle management platform)
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