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Table Of Contents
- VMware vFabric Data Director Administrator and User Guide
- Contents
- About VMware vFabric Data Director Administrator and User Guide
- VMware vFabric Data Director Overview
- Managing Data Director Resources
- Resource Management Overview
- Resource Bundles and Resource Pools
- System Resource Bundle
- Resource Assignment
- vSphere Resource Pools and Data Director
- Viewing Resource Information
- Create the System Resource Pool
- Create the System Resource Bundle
- Monitor Resource Usage
- Create a Resource Pool
- Create a Resource Bundle
- Assign a Resource Bundle to an Organization
- Perform Advanced Cluster Configuration
- Managing Users and Roles
- Building DBVMs and Base DB Templates
- Database Virtual Machine OVA Files
- Deploy a DBVM OVA File
- Build a SLES and Oracle Base Database Virtual Machine
- Build a Custom RHEL and Oracle Database Template
- Deploy the base database VM into the System Resource Pool
- Repackage the Linux ISO Image
- Install Linux on a Blank Virtual Machine
- Initialize the Virtual Machine to Make It Oracle and Data Director Compliant
- Install Oracle 11g R2 Software
- Convert a Base DBVM into a Base DB Template
- Validate a Base DB Template
- Assign a Base DB Template to a Resource Bundle
- Install the Operating System and Database Software in a Blank DBVM
- Requirements for the Kickstart File
- Database Update Configuration
- Configure a vFabric Postgres Update Chain
- Update an Oracle Database
- Identify Existing Target DBVM
- Create a Base Database VM from an Existing Template
- Apply a Patch to the Base Database Virtual Machine
- Convert a Base DBVM into a Base DB Template
- Validate a Base DB Template
- Assign a Base DB Template to a Resource Bundle
- Enable a Base DB Template
- Configure an Oracle Update Chain
- Update a Database
- Managing Organizations
- IP Whitelists
- Managing Database Groups
- Managing Database Templates
- Managing Databases
- Database Lifecycle
- Requirements for Creating Databases
- Database Creation
- Using Tags
- Managing the Organization Catalog
- Batch Operations and Scheduled Tasks
- Updating Databases
- Database Administration
- Cloning Databases
- Managing Database Entities
- Safeguarding Data
- Backup Strategies
- Backup Types
- Backup Template Settings
- Preconfigured Backup Templates
- Select a Database Backup Template
- Schedule Regular Database Backups
- Recover a Database
- Import Backups
- Use VMware Data Recovery to Back Up Data Director
- Database End of Life and Backups
- Perform Point-in-time Recovery of Management Server Database
- Add Pre-Action and Post-Action Scripts to the DBVM for Selected Agents
- Monitoring the Data Director Environment
- Managing Licenses
- IP Pool Management
- VMware vCloud Director Integration
- 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
- Reconfigure the Database Access Network Used by a Database Group
- Modify IP Pool Settings
- Managing SSL Keys and Certificates
- Regenerate Management Server Key and Certificate
- Import Management Server Key and Certificate
- Edit Management Server Certificate
- Regenerate DB Name Server Key and Certificate
- Import DB Name Server Key and Certificate
- Edit DB Name Server Certificate
- Regenerate DBVM Key and Certificate
- Import DBVM Key and Certificate
- Edit DBVM Certificate
- Data Director Troubleshooting
- Index
Procedure
1 In vSphere Client, connect to VDR and click the VDR Restore tab.
2 Click the Restore link.
3 Select the database backup to restore.
a Expand your database group's resource pool.
b Expand the Backup resource pool.
c Select the check box next to the backup to be restored.
d Click Next.
4 Click through the inventory list to select the location for the restored backup (the datastore of the virtual
machine and the data.vmdk file that you want to restore), and click Next.
5 Review the restore settings, and click Restore.
The restore begins. The process can take some time to complete. When the process finishes, you can see the
restored backup virtual machine in the vSphere inventory.
Import VMware Data Recovery Backups
After you restore a VMware Data Recovery backup, you can import that backup into Data Director.
Prerequisites
Restore a VDR backup.
Procedure
1 In vSphere Client, power off the backup virtual machine.
2 Log into Data Director as an organization user with database backup and restore privileges for the database
that you want to restore.
3 In the Manage & Monitor tab, expand the database group, then select the database to restore.
4 Right-click the database name and select Import Backups.
5 Select the backup to import.
Data Director imports the backup.
Database End of Life and Backups
When you decommission and delete a database, you decide whether to retain its backup files. The decision is
based on your site's policies and whether you might need the database in the future.
When you delete a database, you can retain all external backups. The backups expire at the end of the normal
retention period. It is good practice to take a final backup of a database and specify the final backup's retention
period before you delete a database. If you retain the external backups, the snapshots and the executable
instance of the database are deleted. If the deleted database had point-in-time recovery enabled, all the archived
write-ahead log (WAL) segments are deleted as well. This means that the only way to recover the database is
by using the external backups. You cannot recover the database using snapshots or point-in-time recovery.
If you do not retain the external backups, the database and its associated backups, snapshots, and WALs are
deleted. In addition, the database resources are released, and the database cannot be restored.
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