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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
Figure 2-1. Resources in vSphere and Data Director
vSphere
source RPs
source datastores
source port groups
CPU & memory
database
storage
network
backup
storage
resource bundle
CPU & memory
database
storage
network
backup
storage
Data Director
resource bundle
“Resource Assignment,” on page 17 explains how resource assignment differs for the different levels of the
hierarchy.
System Resource Bundle
The system resource bundle provides CPU, memory, network, and storage resources for the base database
virtual machines (base DBVMs) and base database templates that you use to create and provision databases.
Each Data Director installation must have one system resource bundle. If you chose Create defaults in the
Express installation, a system resource bunde is created automatically.
Data Director system administrators create the system resource bundle before setting up other Data Director
entities and populate it with base database templates and base DBVMs.
The Data Director system administrator creates the system resource bundle at the system level. This ensures
that the CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources, base database templates, and base DBVMs apply
to the entire Data Director platform. The system administrator creates resource bundles and assigns base
database templates to them, and assigns the resource bundles to organizations. The organization administrator
enables base database templates for use in that organization.
See “Create the System Resource Bundle,” on page 22.
Resource Assignment
Resource assignment differs for organizations, database groups, and databases.
Resource Assignment for Organizations
System administrators can assign multiple resource bundles to each organization. System administrators can
assign a particular base database template to multiple resource bundles. Organization administrators allocate
the resource bundles to database groups and enable base DB templates. When you create databases, they draw
on the resources assigned to the database group and the base database templates enabled in the organization.
This resource isolation guarantees that different organizations and different database groups have control over
their resources.
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