We’re pleased to announce the final availability of model 1.4 of VMware Cloud Director extension for VMware Knowledge Options as of 29 February, 2024.
Right this moment, enterprise purposes throughout industries are closely depending on knowledge because it supplies larger personalization, predictable resolution 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 Knowledge Options equips developer personas with the instruments to construct and run at this time’s trendy purposes by offering a seamless multi-tenant secure platform to transact and work with software elements like databases which can be important for contemporary purposes.
Now we have targeted this launch primarily on the next facets:
- Knowledge Safety
- Consumption Reporting
- Template administration
Knowledge Safety
Knowledge loss is a nightmare for any enterprise. Not solely does it lead to excessive prices but additionally negatively impacts the repute. Knowledge losses could happen resulting from numerous components. It is likely to 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 rules.
To this regard, Database directors (DBAs) conduct common backups to fight and comply in case of such incidents. This activity turns into very advanced for DBAs when there are a number of cases operating on disparate elements.
Now we have launched, the brand new “Backup & Help” web page for customers the place they’ll backup and additionally schedule them to revive VMware SQL with Postgres & VMware SQL with MySQL database cases.
- 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 may present this as a self service to knowledge seasoned tenants which assist tenant builders to check new options, carry out upgrades in parallel to the manufacturing cases.
- 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 cases between K8s clusters.
Consumption Reporting
That is probably the most awaited function that has been launched on this launch. Service suppliers now have the skill to view the actual time useful resource consumption (CPU and Reminiscence consumption) per database occasion, by way of UI or by way of API.
This helps service suppliers to meter and generate utilization stories thus aiding them higher monetize knowledge 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 resolution templates:
- Clone – database templates might 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 Knowledge Options Enhancements
Along with the above, now we have additionally launched a number 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 Knowledge Options add-on cases.
Additionally, now we have 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 Knowledge Options right here. If you’re already a person, improve to the most recent model instantly from the VMware Cloud Director UI or observe these easy steps.
Please consult with the launch notes and our documentation web page for extra info on the discharge. Additionally try the FAQ and the Reference Design Information for an in depth info on the product.
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