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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
Managing Database Templates 6
Data Director database templates allow organization administrators to standardize databases and their backup
policies. Templates also impose limits on resource consumption. Database administrators can create and back
up databases consistently by using templates and can create, clone, and customize templates.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Introduction to Database Templates,” on page 45
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“Create a Database Configuration Template,” on page 46
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“Modify a Database Configuration Template,” on page 47
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“Create a Backup Template,” on page 48
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“Modify a Backup Template,” on page 49
Introduction to Database Templates
Data Director includes database templates to help administrators streamline resource allocation and
standardize database setup and backup setup. Templates help database administrators to quickly provision a
database and to select a backup process.
Data Director supports database configuration templates and backup templates. Included with Data Director
are several optimized templates. When you create an organization, Data Director copies the system-defined
templates to the new organization. Organization administrators can modify the organization-specific template
instances or configure new templates.
You can create database templates and publish them immediately or publish them later. When a template is
not published, it can be viewed or managed, but cannot be used for provisioning or other purposes.
Database Configuration Templates
Database configuration templates define the computing and storage resources for creating a database, the
database settings, and the high availability settings. Each template defines resource settings and database
settings.
Resource Settings
When you create a template, you can specify the number of virtual CPUs,
memory size, and recommended database storage allocation. You can enable
high availability for the template and all corresponding databases. You can also
choose the CPU and memory priority, which affects the allocation of resources
for all databases in the database group. The levels (high, medium, and low)
give certain databases higher priority than other databases in the same
database group. The CPU reservation and Memory reservation fields let you
explicitly reserve resources for each database you create from the template.
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