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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
recovery 149
refresh a cloned database 137
refresh cloned database, manually 138
refresh from an external database 116
regenerate DB Name Server SSL key and
certificate 209
regenerate DBVM SSL key and certificate 211
regenerate management server SSL key and
certificate 207
register vFabric Data Director with vCenter Single
Sign-On 41
remove a database from the catalog 119
remove license keys 190
remove vCenter Single Sign-On registration 43
repackage custom kickstart file 53, 57
repackage Linux ISO Image 53, 57
replicate a vPostgres database 164
replicate vPostgres databases 164
replication 163
reports, database statistics 125
Reservation setting 24
resource bundles
assigning 31
creating 29
resource isolation 88
resource management 19
resource management and database groups 88
resource pools, missing 214
resource settings, templates 93
resource template, modifying 94
resources
monitor usage 28
physical and virtual 19
viewing 26
resources for database groups 88
restore VDR backup 159
RHEL and Oracle Database templates 56
role-based access control 33–35
roles
add to an organization 39
propagation of 38
run basic batch operations 120
run batch database operations 119
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safeguarding data 149
save post-clone scripts to external location 136
schedule backups 154
schedule database operations 119
schedule tasks in batches 119
schema 143
schema data, creating tables for 143
schema only clone 127, 130
search filters 116
search tags 116
security, database groups 89
security model 34
security policies 33
security policy 34
security settings 40
select active post-clone script 137
self-service database provisioning 11
snapshot 155
snapshot backups 150, 151
SQL management 146
SQL management tasks 141
SQL query 146
SQL query management 146
SQL query plan 146
SQL Server, create empty database 105
SSL
edit DB name server certificate 210
import DB name server key and
certificate 210
import DBVM key and certificate 211
import management server key and
certificate 208
regenerate DB Name Server key and
certificate 209
regenerate DBVM key and certificate 211
regenerate management server key and
certificate 207
SSL communication, troubleshooting 215
SSL key and certificate, troubleshooting 215
SSL keys and certificates, managing 207
SSL,edit DBVM certicate 212
SSL,edit management server certificate 209
storage, See also disk
storage reservation 89
storage virtualization concepts 21
supported vCPUs 187
system architecture for Data Director 11
system dashboard 169
system privileges 37
system resource bundle 19, 22
system resource bundle, creating 27
system-level operations 13
T
tables, creating for schema data 143
tagging databases 123
tags
creating 117
using 116
tasks and events, database 125
Index
VMware, Inc. 223