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Understanding Resources and DB Groups
The Data Director API allows you to perform resource management and access control functions. This section
gives you an overview of the available resources and their management operations.
The Data Director API allows you to extend the functionality of the Data Director Client by performing Create,
Read, Update, and Delete operations against Data Director organizations, users, roles, database groups,
databases, and resource bundles.
In this release of the API, a resource bundle includes one resource pool (cpu/memory), one database storage
pool, and one backup storage pool. The following figure represents a default resource pool.
A resource bundle is assigned to or revoked from an organization. The following figure shows the relationship
between organizations and resource bundles.
A database group under an organization needs resources to create or backup databases. When creating or
backing up a database, the consumed resources come from the parent database group.
The following figure shows the relationship between an organization, a resource bundle, and a database group.
The available resources for a database group are in the resource bundle of the parent organization.
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