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Using the VCF CLI with CCI context to create Native Object Storage
In a recent post, I demonstrated how you could use the VCF CLI with CCI context to manage VCFA provisioned databases integrated with VMware Data Services Manager. I thought it might be interesting to demonstrate a similar set of steps, but with the objective of creating a Native…
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Native Object Storage Use-Cases
While there are many use-cases for object storage, I wanted to create a short post to highlight some of the use-cases that I have been trying out in my own lab. Two of the use cases are for backup and logs, and another is as an S3 Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) for Greenplum…
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Using the VCF CLI with CCI context to manage VCFA provisioned databases
In a post from last year, I demonstrated how one could use the VCF CLI to troubleshoot the underlying vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) on which a VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) database is provisioned. In this follow up post, we will look at how we can use the VCF CLI to…
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Introducing PostgreSQL Read Replicas in DSM 9.1.1
In my introduction post to VMware Data Services (DSM) 9.1.1, I mentioned a new feature called PostgreSQL read replicas. In a nutshell, PostgreSQL databases provisioned by DSM can now be scaled for read workloads by adding additional Read Replicas. Previously, a PostgreSQL…
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How to enable SSH on DSM Appliance when deployed via VCFA 9.1.1
In my initial post introducing VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) 9.1.1 features, I mentioned that DSM can now be deployed directly from VCF Automation. As part of a concerted effort to make Data Services (and the VCF platform) highly secure, SSH access is not automatically…
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Bucket Policies in VCFA 9.1.1 for Native Object Storage
In an earlier post on object storage, we look at the role privieges that VCF Automation users could be assigned within an organization. Since the scope of object storage privileges is at the project level, we also looked at the role of Project Admins and Project Advanced Users.…
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Identity Providers and Access Controls in VCFA 9.1.1 for Native Object Storage
In a previous post, I highlighted how to get started with Native Object Storage which is in tech preview in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.1.1. In that post, we saw the role of the Provider Admin and the Organization Admin in VCF Automation (VCFA). We saw that the…
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SQL Server enhancements in Data Services Manager version 9.1.1
VMware introduced support for Microsoft SQL Server as a data service in VMware Data Services Manager version 9.1. In version 9.1.1, there are a number of enhancements, some of which I will highlight in this post. If you want to get the full list of enhancements, check out the…
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Data Services Manager version 9.1.1 Network Security
One of the interesting new features of VMware Data Services Manager when it is integrated with VCF automation is the Network Security feature. In a nutshell, what this feature does is implement both distributed firewall rules and gateway firewall rules for each DSM database…
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A first look at Native Object Storage in VCF 9.1.1
Many readers may have read this blog article on Native Object Storage from my good pal, Pete Koehler. In that post, which was published back in May of this year and coincided with the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.1 release, Pete talked about a tech preview of Native…