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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
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.
You can also enable expandable CPU and memory. See “Create the System
Resource Pool,” on page 26.
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 214.
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.
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