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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
You can also enable expandable CPU and memory. See “Create the System
Resource Pool,” on page 21.
CAUTION Data Director can use only resource pools for creating databases if the corresponding cluster is
enabled for DRS and HA. Do not disable DRS. If you do, Data Director cannot use the resource pools even if
you reenable DRS. See “Resource Bundles Become Unusable Because DRS Is Disabled,” on page 188.
Resource pools allow you to group available CPU and memory resources. You can allocate resources explicitly,
or use the resource pool share mechanism. You can hierarchically partition available CPU and memory
resources by grouping resource pools into hierarchies. You can allow different organizations access to different
resource pools. For example, a QA department might need large amounts of CPU and memory for running
tests while the marketing department might require smaller amounts.
Data Director expects you to group the hosts that provide the CPU and memory resources into clusters. Each
cluster owns the resources of all hosts. You can create one or more resource pools for the cluster, which has an
invisible root resource pool. Each resource pool owns some of the cluster's resources. If necessary, you can
create child resource pools. Child resource pools represent successively smaller amounts of CPU and memory.
CAUTION To use Oracle with Data Director, create a cluster specifically for Oracle use. To avoid licensing issues,
assign only resources from your dedicated Oracle cluster to organizations that create and provision Oracle
databases and DBVMs.
How you allocate CPU and memory resources to database groups differs from how you allocate those resources
to databases.
Creating Resource Pools for Databases
You create resource pools for databases by using a vSphere Client connected to a vCenter Server system. Specify
the following resource pool settings to ensure that Data Director always receives all of its allocated resources
and does not have different amounts of CPU and memory available if the cluster is experiencing a light or a
heavy load.
NOTE If you do not configure your resource pool with these settings, problems with resource bundle creation
or other Data Director tasks might result. Resource pools with incorrect settings do not appear in the list of
available resource pools when you create a resource bundle.
Set the Limit equal to the
Reservation.
If the system never allocates more resources than you reserved, you do not
experience resource fluctuations.
Set Expandable
Reservation to checked
or unchecked.
If the system does not attempt to allocate more resources than you reserved,
you do not experience resource fluctuations.
Set Unlimited to
unchecked.
Data Director requires this setting to avoid a resource bundle taking more than
its share of the resource pool.
After you create the resource pool, you create resource bundles. Each resource bundle uses one resource pool.
See “Create a Resource Pool,” on page 23 and “Create a Resource Bundle,” on page 24.
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