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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
If you chose the Express installation and enabled Create defaults in the Data Director Setup wizard, a system
resource bundle and Default resource bundle are created during setup. A Default organization with a Default
database group within that organization is also created, and the Default resource bundle is assigned to the
Default organization.
Resource Assignment for Database Groups
When you create a database group, you assign a resource bundle that specifies the resources for that group.
You cannot assign more than one resource bundle to one database group. Multiple database groups can share
one resource bundle.
When you assign a resource bundle to a database group, you can specify how to allocate each resource.
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CPU priority or reservation.
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Memory priority or reservation.
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Storage allocation.
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Storage reservation percentage.
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A network for the database group. You cannot divide the network. You can select only one network when
you create a database group even if several networks are associated with the resource bundle.
If you do not specify the CPU or memory allocation, Data Director sets the reservation to zero but sets
expandable reservations to true. If expandable reservations is set to true, the CPU or memory can expand
beyond the specified value.
Resource Assignment for Databases
A database consumes the resources assigned to its database group.
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You can specify the number of virtual CPUs, the memory size, and CPU and memory priority for each
database that you create.
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You cannot specify storage allocation. All databases consume the data and the backup storage allocated
to their parent database group. You can specify the size of data or PITR disk of each database.
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Each database uses the network assigned to the database group as the DB access network.
vSphere Resource Pools and Data Director
A vSphere resource pool is a logical abstraction for flexible management of CPU and memory resources.You
add CPU and memory resources to Data Director resource bundles by adding a vSphere resource pool to the
bundle.
Data Director has the following types of resource pools.
Resource Pools for
Databases
vSphere administrators create one or more resource pools to enable Data
Director users to create databases. Resource pools for databases require
configuration settings such as DRS and HA enabled, and CPU and memory
limits equal to reservation.
System Resource Pool
There is one system resource pool for one Data Director instance. vSphere
administrators can deploy database virtual machine (DBVM) OVA files into
the system resource pool at any time. The configuration settings for the system
resource pool are different from the configuration settings for database
resource pools. You do not have to enable HA, and CPU, and memory limits
do not have to equal reservations. The reservation must be greater than 0.
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