In today’s fast-paced digital economy, successful organizations are those that embrace continuous innovation and rapid application development. This requires not just modern applications, but a modernized data infrastructure to power them. Imagine if your application teams could provision databases on demand, and your IT teams could manage vast fleets of data services with unprecedented efficiency and control. With VMware, that vision is possible today.
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) already provides the robust, scalable private cloud foundation that businesses rely on for mission-critical workloads. Historically, VMware customers have leveraged vSphere and VCF to run, manage, and protect their critical commercial databases. However, the landscape is evolving rapidly. Open-source databases and other data services are now a significant and growing force, representing one quarter of VMware cloud data workloads and standing as our fastest-growing segment. Open-source options like MySQL and PostgreSQL have achieved parity with commercial offerings, making them essential for modern applications, especially emerging AI/ML workloads.
While the adoption of open-source databases offers incredible agility, managing any database at scale – commercial or open-source – introduces complexity, overhead, and a lack of unified control. This is precisely where VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) steps in.
With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, we’re thrilled to unveil VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) as a fully-supported Advanced Service for VCF.
This integrated Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution transforms how you manage data services, streamlining the entire lifecycle of the most populardatabases – including the underlying infrastructure. From rapid provisioning to automated backups and seamless patching, DSM empowers IT teams to deploy and manage databases at scale, ensuring the efficiency, security, and consistent operations you’ve come to expect from your VMware environment.
DSM 9.0 simplifies the management of your popular database, streamlining the entire lifecycle – from rapid provisioning to automated backups and patching.
Unlock the Full Potential of Your Private Cloud
The benefits of integrating DSM 9.0 with your VCF private cloud are clear and quantifiable:
- Self-Service for Devs, Control for IT
Application teams get quick, on-demand access to the databases they need, just like a public cloud experience, which makes them happy and productive. Meanwhile, IT maintains full control and governance over the infrastructure, ensuring security and compliance. It’s about empowering developers without losing control. - Automated Operations
Automate all those tedious, repetitive tasks that DBAs and IT admins dread – things like provisioning, patching, backups, and scaling. This drastically reduces manual effort, frees up valuable time for strategic initiatives, and minimizes human error. It’s about doing more with less and making operations predictable. - Data Security & Governance
This is about providing the reliability, security, and performance that mission-critical data demands. We ensure high availability, simplify disaster recovery, and integrate robust security features. Plus, we’re building on the proven foundation of VMware Cloud Foundation, so customers can trust their data is in a secure and resilient environment. It’s about peace of mind and business continuity.
What’s New in VMware Data Services Manager?
DSM 9.0 brings exciting advancements that further enhance your private cloud DBaaS capabilities:
- Microsoft SQL Server as a Service (Tech Preview):
A highly anticipated addition, DSM 9.0 introduces SQL Server as a Tech Preview, allowing Infrastructure Admins to provision SQL Server instances and enabling App Dev teams to self-service provision databases on these instances with automated backups and Point-in-time Recovery (PITR). This significantly expands the range of data services you can manage with cloud-like ease on VCF. - Deep VCF Automation Integration:
DSM 9.0 is now an Advanced Service for VCF Automation (VCFA). This means Admins can define comprehensive Data Service Policies, giving tenants simplified self-service provisioning through a governed, scalable multi-tenant private cloud experience with quota-based provisioning and namespace isolation. - Enhanced Operational Efficiency for Large Database Fleets:
We’ve focused on giving IT even more control and visibility:- Metrics History View: Conduct trend analysis and root cause investigations with time-based views, diagnostic clarity, and historical insight into your data service performance.
- Improved Alerting: Empower DB owners and DevOps teams with custom alert routing via Email and Webhook for better operational awareness.
- Expanded Audit Log Forwarding: Ensure per-database traceability across your environments for robust compliance and security.
Agility for Application Teams, Control for Infrastructure Admins
DSM 9.0 is meticulously designed to meet the needs of both application developers and infrastructure administrators:
- For Infrastructure Administrators (Efficiency and Control): Gain centralized and automated control over your Day 0-2 data services operations. DSM enables powerful multi-tenancy and governance at scale, ensuring compliance and optimal resource utilization across your VCF environment.
- For Application Developers (Agility): Say goodbye to manual ticketing and long delivery times. DSM 9.0 delivers a true cloud-native self-service experience, empowering developers with on-demand consumption and rich APIs for programmatic access. This means consistent service models across all data services, VMs, and Kubernetes, accelerating your application delivery.
Supercharge Your Private Cloud Today
VMware Data Services Manager 9.0 is the complete DBaaS solution for your modern private cloud, streamlining database management and accelerating your modernization journey. It’s time to provide your developers with the agility they demand and your IT teams with the control and efficiency they need, all within the trusted foundation of VMware Cloud Foundation.
Ready to experience the future of data services on your private cloud?
Visit VMware Data Services Manager to learn more and explore how DSM 9.0 can revolutionize your data infrastructure, or reach out to your Broadcom sales team.
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