2.7
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
DB parameter groups are associated with base DB templates and contain the database configuration settings
used to provision database instances. DB parameter groups specify database configurations that vary from db
engines. For vFabric Postgres, this includes parameters such as connection, memory, IO, WAL, checkpoint,
logging, and so on. When organization administrators enable a base DB template, they can use the default DB
parameter group for the template. They can also create a new DB parameter group or copy from another
template, so that database users can choose a parameter group based on actual need when provisioning
databases.
Resource Templates
Database Resource templates define the computing and storage resources for creating a database, the database
parameter group, and the high availability settings.
Resource Settings
When you create a template, you can specify the number of virtual CPUs,
memory size, and recommended database storage allocation. You can enable
high availability for the template and all corresponding databases. You can also
choose the CPU and memory priority, which affects the allocation of resources
for all databases in the database group. The levels (high, medium, and low)
give certain databases higher priority than other databases in the same
database group. The CPU reservation and Memory reservation text boxes let
you reserve resources for each database that you create from the template.
If you make changes to a template, databases that are already created from the
template are not affected.
You can create different templates for different situations. For example, you can define a resource template for
engineering with a small memory size and have high availability disabled. You can define the resource template
for QA with a larger memory size and with high availability enabled.
Backup Templates
Backup templates define backup settings for databases. You can associate a backup template with a database
when you create the database, or you can associate a backup template with a database at a later time. See
“Select a Database Backup Template,” on page 153.
You can use one of the predefined backup templates for consistency across your organization. See “Backup
Template Settings,” on page 152.
You can also clone and customize an existing template and associate the custom template with your database.
You can customize frequency, start time, and retention for snapshots and for external backup. You can also
enable and customize point-in-time recovery, and you can specify a backup label. See “Create a Backup
Template,” on page 95.
Enable a Base DB Template
Organization administrators enable a base DB template on the underlying resource bundles so that
organization users can provision databases based on the base DB template. Only organization administrators
and users with Manage base DB templates privileges can enable, disable, and edit base DB templates.
Prerequisites
System administrators have assigned at least one base DB template to the resource bundles of the underlying
organization.
Log in to Data Director as an organization administrator or as an administrator with privileges to enable base
DB templates.
VMware vFabric Data Director Administrator and User Guide
92 VMware, Inc.