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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
Virtual Disk Provisioning
Types
Data Director supports the following disk provisioning profiles:
Eager Zeroed
Thick Provision
A type of thick virtual disk that supports clustering
features such as Fault Tolerance. Space required for
the virtual disk is allocated at creation time. In contrast
to the flat format, the data remaining on the physical
device is zeroed out when the virtual disk is created.
Eager Zeroed Thick Provision disks provide superior
performance for applications supporting I/O intensive
operations.
Thin Provision
Use this format to save storage space. For the thin disk,
you provision as much datastore space as the disk
would require based on the value that you enter for
the disk size. However, the thin disk starts small and
at first, uses only as much datastore space as the disk
needs for its initial operations.
If the thin disk needs additional space, it can grow to
its maximum capacity and occupy the entire datastore
space provisioned to it. Also, you can manually
convert the thin disk into a thick disk.
Minimum Storage Size
You can specify a minimum storage size to use for each disk that you create.
Carefully consider how much storage space you have available, and how much
you will need for your data and log usage.
NOTE Determining log disk storage requirements depends upon several
factors. Refer to your database vendors documentation for information on log
storage capacity planning for your particular database.
Table 4-1. Minimum Storage Size for Data Disks
Database Minimum Size of Data Disk
MySQL 1 GB
Oracle 2 GB
SQL Server 1 GB
vPostgres 1 GB
Build an Oracle, SQL Server, or Empty Base DBVM
You can create a base DBVM and install the operating system and database software required to provision
databases.
You can create an Oracle, SQL Server, or empty base DBVM which you can then use to create base DB templates.
You can create a base DBVM using either Oracle or SQL Server databases with the standard operating systems
supported by Data Director as guest operating systems within a DBVM.
To build a base DBVM with a customized operating system (using a specific set of patches and system
configurations configured for use in your IT environment), you must create an empty base DBVM. The empty
base DBVM contains the structure for installing an operating system and database software combination not
provided by preconfigured base DBVMs. See “Build a Base DBVM with a Custom Operating System,” on
page 63.
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