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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
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Organizations
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Database groups
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Databases (vPostgres databases)
System administrators perform management tasks at the system level, which is the top level of the hierarchy.
To edit system-level settings you must have system privileges, but having system privileges does not allow
you to make changes to the other levels.
A system can contain multiple organizations. An organization can contain multiple database groups. A
database group can contain multiple databases. You cannot create database groups at the system level. They
can exist only within organizations. Databases can exist only within database groups.
The following figure shows the Data Director system hierarchy.
Figure 1-1. Data Director System Hierarchy
organization organization
database database
database group database group
system
System administrators manage Data Director resources at the system, organization, and database group levels.
System administrators create resource bundles from vSphere resource pools (CPU and memory resources) and
networking and storage resources, and allocate one or more resource bundles to each organization.
Organization administrators assign resources from their resource bundles to database groups for consumption
by databases.
Data Director User Management Modes
Data Director user management modes control how users are assigned and managed among different
organizations. Data Director has two user management modes: Global mode (for enterprises) and By
Organization mode (for service providers). Global user management mode is the default.
By Organization user management mode has the following characteristics.
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Organizations are set up as separate, isolated enterprises with no visibility into other organizations.
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The Data Director system user list is not visible to organizations.
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No organization can see another organization's user list.
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Organization administrators send email to invite users to join their organization, or users can navigate to
the Data Director application URL and click an email link to request access to an organization.
Global user management mode has the following characteristics.
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Organizations are set up as separate departments, business units, or groups within one enterprise, such
as a corporation's HR and Finance departments.
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