A new release of vFabric Data Director 2.0 now offers support for virtualizing Oracle databases and automation features that pave the way for Database-as-a-Service (DaaS). But, before I get into vFabric, let’s start with DaaS and what it can do for you.
Since database administrators (DB admins) often spend about 50 percent of their time creating new databases and moving data around, any solution that promises to simplify this process is going to be exciting.
How DaaS and vFabric Data Director help
VMware’s senior director of data and analytics product management Fausto Ibarra told CRN, “Companies are looking to offer database-as-a-service, and they can use vFabric Data Director to define what databases they want to offer to internal users and developers, and define policies.”
Furthermore, Ibarra told CRN that Fabric Data Director 2.0 automates the migration process of moving a database from a physical to virtual environment; handling provisioning, backup and high-availability through cloning. By consolidating their databases on vSphere, customers see cost savings of between 50 and 75 percent because they’ll need fewer software licenses and less storage.
With DaaS and vFabric Data Director you can:
Provision a highly available database with a simple click: High availability can be provided automatically with a simple drop down template UI that leverages vSphere’s HA capability – all following the policies you need for services in your data center
Create copies of a production database in minutes: DB admins can automatically create copies of production databases for troubleshooting, without using up excess storage. By leveraging the linked clone feature of vSphere, vFabric Data Director automates this process using the built-in Physical-to-virtual migration tool
What you get with vFabric Data Director:
DBaaS Architecture
- Scalable, elastic, multi-tenant
- Policy-driven CPU, memory and storage resource management
Self-service database provisioning, cloning, backup, and more
- Template-guided rapid provisioning
- Database-aware High Availability in a click
Innovative database cloning
- Linked database clone for instantaneous access
- Full database cloning for complete storage isolation
Comprehensive database backup and restore
- Database-consistent hot snapshots provide instant backups
- Hot external backups for durability
- Point-in-time recovery with both snapshots and external backups
Monitoring, Dashboards, and Reports
- Proactive monitoring, alerts, and notifications
- Comprehensive view of resource usage
REST APIs for integration with other provisioning and management tools
- vCloud Director, vFabric Application Director, Cloud Foundry, EMC Data Domain, and Greenplum Chorus
- Extensible to others
vFabric Data Director 2.0 works with the Oracle 10gR2 and Oracle 11gR2 databases and with vFabric Postgres 9.1, a relational database based on PostgreSQL that is built for running applications in the Cloud.
VMware has also included an API for integrating vFabric Data Director 2.0 with vCloud Director, vFabric Application Director, Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service, as well as EMC Data Domain and Greenplum Chorus.
Data Director has a full user interface to allow IT and developers to provision and manage databases and the new release exposes this UI functionality to the API. vFabric Data Director 2.0 is available now. Each license can manage one database running on a virtual machine with up to two virtual CPUs.
Learn more about DaaS by visiting the DaaS Wiki. Have a question – post it below and we’ll get back to you, or get in touch with your Softchoice Account Manager who can connect you with a specialist.
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