2.7

Data Director Concepts
The Data Director API supports a significant subset of the functionality that the Data Director UI supports.
The API is especially well suited for performing resource management and access control.
The Data Director API allows you to perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations against Data
Director organizations, users, roles, database groups, databases, and resource bundles. The vFabric Data
Director Administrator and User Guide discusses these concepts in detail. This section gives an overview of
resource assignment in the Data Director environment.
1 System administrators create resource bundles to encapsulate CPU and storage resources. In this
release of the API, a resource bundle includes one resource pool, which encapsulates the CPU and
memory resources, and the storage pools.
Figure 1‑1. Resource Bundles with CPU, Memory, Storage, and Networking Resources
vSphere
source RPs
source datastores
source port groups
CPU & memory
network
resource bundle
CPU & memory
network
Data Director
resource bundle
OS
storage
data
storage
backup
storage
log
storage
OS
storage
data
storage
backup
storage
log
storage
Figure 1‑2. Resource Bundle Contents
resource bundle
CPU/memory pool
storage pool backup storage pool
2 System administrators define an organization and assign one or more resource bundles to an
organization and can also remove resource bundles to ensure an efficient distribution of resources
across the company.
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