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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
- Storage Resources and Data Director
- 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
- User Management Overview
- Authenticating Users
- Role-Based Access Control
- Predefined Roles
- Privileges
- Propagation of Permissions and Roles
- Organization Privileges and Permissions
- Add Users to Your Organization
- Add Roles to an Organization
- Grant a Permission to a User
- Modify Organization Security Settings
- About vCenter Single Sign-On
- Register vFabric Data Director with the vCenter Single Sign-On Service
- Import vCenter Single Sign-On Service Users
- Remove vCenter Single Sign-On Registration Before Uninstalling vFabric Data Director
- Building DBVMs and Base DB Templates
- Database Virtual Machine OVA Files
- Deploy a DBVM OVA File
- Disk Configuration for DBVMs and DB Templates
- Build an Oracle, SQL Server, or Empty Base DBVM
- Build a MySQL Base DBVM
- Build an Oracle and SUSE Linux Base DBVM
- Build an Oracle DBVM with a Custom Linux Operating System
- Requirements for the Kickstart File
- Build a Base DBVM with a Custom Operating System
- Create and Validate a Base DB Template
- 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
- Create a Database Snapshot
- Recover a Database from Backup
- Import Backups
- Recover a Database from Last State
- 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
- High Availability and Replication
- 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
- vCenter Server Stops Responding
- Disk Usage Exceeds Acceptable Levels
- Resource Bundles Become Unusable Because DRS Is Disabled
- Missing Resource Pool
- Troubleshooting for SSL Communication
- Database Cannot Be Connected Using the JDBC Connection String
- Unable to Import or Login Users of the Single Sign-On Service
- Index
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Virtual machines consist of virtual disks that are created in the datastores and presented to the guest
operating system as disks that can be partitioned and used in file systems.
VMFS is a cluster file system that provides storage virtualization optimized for virtual machines. Each virtual
machine is encapsulated in a set of files and VMFS is the default storage system for these files on physical SCSI
disks and partitions. VMFS allows multiple ESXi instances to access shared virtual machine storage
concurrently. It also enables virtualization-based distributed infrastructure services such as vMotion, DRS,
and VMware HA to operate across a cluster of ESXi hosts.
Consolidated Versus Dedicated Datastores
A generally accepted best practice is to create a dedicated datastore if an application has a demanding I/O
profile. Databases fall into this category. The creation of dedicated datastores allows you to define individual
service level guarantees for different applications, and is analogous to provisioning dedicated LUNs in a
physical server environment.
Partition Alignment
Aligning file system partitions is a well-known storage best practice for database workloads. Partition
alignment on both physical machines and VMware VMFS partitions prevents I/O performance degradation
caused by I/O crossing track boundaries. Using the vSphere Client to create VMFS partitions avoids this
problem since, beginning with ESXi 5.0, it automatically aligns VMFS3 or VMFS5 partitions along the 1MB
boundary.
When creating partitions VMware recommends the following best practices:
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Create VMFS partitions from within vCenter because they are aligned by default
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Align the data disk for heavy I/O workloads using diskpart.
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Consult with the storage vendor for recommendations on how best to use their hardware in conjunction
with your Data Director deployment.
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 27.
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