We’re comfortable to announce the overall availability of model 1.4 of VMware Cloud Director extension for VMware Information Options as of 29 February, 2024.
At present, enterprise purposes throughout industries are closely depending on information because it gives better personalization, predictable choice making, higher efficiency, superior person expertise leading to higher enterprise outcomes.
Builders proceed to construct and evolve up to date purposes matching as much as the calls for of the fashionable enterprise. VMware Cloud Director extension for VMware Information Options equips developer personas with the instruments to construct and run right this moment’s trendy purposes by offering a seamless multi-tenant protected platform to transact and work with software elements like databases which are important for contemporary purposes.
We’ve centered this launch primarily on the next facets:
- Information Safety
- Consumption Reporting
- Template administration
Information Safety
Information loss is a nightmare for any enterprise. Not solely does it end in excessive prices but additionally negatively impacts the fame. Information losses could happen attributable to varied elements. It may be a results of {hardware} failures or software program glitches/bugs or human errors. Along with this, many regulated industries now mandate to retailer backups for auditing functions and is required for companies to adjust to these laws.
To this regard, Database directors (DBAs) conduct common backups to fight and comply in case of such incidents. This job turns into very complicated for DBAs when there are a number of situations operating on disparate elements.
We’ve launched, the brand new “Backup & Assist” web page for customers the place they’ll backup and additionally schedule them to revive VMware SQL with Postgres & VMware SQL with MySQL database situations.
- Companions can handle again up actions, like create, view, and delete backup locations (Kubernetes clusters) from the brand new Backup & Restore web page. Cloud suppliers can even present this as a self service to information seasoned tenants which assist tenant builders to check new options, carry out upgrades in parallel to the manufacturing situations.
- Tenant customers can now create on-demand back-ups in addition to create, pause, and resume scheduled backups.
This helps Tenants restore a database occasion from an present backup by themselves – both from the Situations or Backup & Restore web page – lowering the dependence on the service supplier for every every motion, thus making a extra environment friendly and a quicker course of. This additionally helps scaling / migration of DB situations between K8s clusters.
Consumption Reporting
That is essentially the most awaited characteristic that has been launched on this launch. Service suppliers now have the capability to view the true time useful resource consumption (CPU and Reminiscence consumption) per database occasion, by means of UI or by means of API.
This helps service suppliers to meter and generate utilization studies thus aiding them higher monetize information providers.
Template Administration
Ranging from model 1.4, service suppliers can handle / customise database templates for his or her tenants. Service suppliers can carry out the next actions on present answer templates:
- Clone – database templates will be cloned/ duplicated and offered within the template lists for tenant consumption.
- Edit identify and default values
- Delete non-built in templates
- Publish or unpublish templates thus optimizing the flows.
VMware Cloud Director extension for Information Options Enhancements
Along with the above, we’ve additionally launched a couple of upgrades and enhancements. Ranging from this model, upgrading of the information options add-on removes all legacy variations of VMware Cloud Director extension for Information Options add-on situations.
Additionally, we’ve launched a “notification banner” that highlights and promotes all deployment errors as a banner.
Getting Began
Obtain the most recent model of the VMware Cloud Director extension for VMware Information Options right here. In case you are already a person, improve to the most recent model straight from the VMware Cloud Director UI or observe these easy steps.
Please check with the launch notes and our documentation web page for extra data on the discharge. Additionally try the FAQ and the Reference Design Information for an in depth data on the product.
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