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vFabric Data Director:Powering Database-as-a-Service for Your Cloud

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Cloud Infrastructure Platform

Cloud Platforms for the Apps of Today and Tomorrow

Existing Applications New Applications

Existing

PrivatePublic

Cloud Era

Reduce cost,minimize disruption

Shift investment to new apps to deliver differentiation

Cloud Application Platform

vFabric Data Director New Cloud Foundry

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Customer Challenges Around Databases

• Thousands of under-managed and under-secured databases

• Difficult to enforce policy and compliance

Control Database Sprawl

Corporate IT Shadow IT

Provision &

Manage

Provision &

Manage

Databaseprovision or clone request

Lead time of weeks

Improve Operational AgilityGet More out of

Virtual Infrastructure

• More workloads in virtual machines than in physical machines

• Database accounts for ~15%-20% of the total workloads

• Database operations not fully automated

• Long lead time for database services for developers

…

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Announcing vFabric Data Director

• Eliminate database sprawl with Database-as-a-Service

• Provides the agility of public cloud with enterprise-grade security, flexibility, control and

compliance

• Standardized DB templates enforce compliance, consistency

• Single pane to monitor and manage 1000’s of databases

• Accelerate application development via DB self-service

• Intuitive GUI allows developer self-service

• Increase efficiency with virtual infrastructure

• Leverage vSphere capabilities to eliminate manual processes

• Database High Availability, linked Clones

New

• First database enabled is vFabric Postgres – also live on cloudfoundry.com on 8/29

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vFabric Data Director

vFabric Data Director Overview

VMware vSphere

Provisioning Backup/Restore CloneOne click

HA

ResourceMgmt

SecurityMgmt

Database Templates Monitoring

DBA App Dev

IT Admin

AutomationSelf-Service

Policy BasedControlDBA

Powers Database as a service for Your Cloud

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Data Director Feature Overview

Resource Management

Role Based Access Control

Configuration Templates

Backup Templates

Monitoring and Dashboards

Linked Database Clones

Database Snapshots

Database-Aware HA

Self-Service Operations

• Database Provisioning

• Database Cloning

• Database Backup/Recovery

• Database HA

Elastic Database Memory

Dynamic RTO Tuning

Dynamic Database Configuration

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Self-Service Provisioning

Database provisioning and configuration can take weeks, slowing innovation cycles.

Solution: Self-Service Provisioning

• Provision fully configured databases in minutes

• Templates guarantee proper configuration

• Easy to use web interface

Benefits

• Faster development cycles

• More time coding, less time waiting

• IT controls configuration & resource consumption

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Innovative Self-Service Database Cloning

The average production database has 6 clones (dev, qa) and each clone takes days to create.

Solution: Innovative Database Cloning

• Full Database Clone• Complete physical copy of parent

• Isolation between parent and clone

• Linked Database Clone• Clone created from parent snapshot

• Available for use instantly regardless of database size

Dev QA Perf

Linked DB Clones

Full DB Clone

Staging

Production“House of Brick has always found that VMware outshines the competition when it comes to the tools supporting their cloud infrastructure. With vFabric Data Director, even routine operations such as database cloning are now automated and are as easy as one simple click.”

- David Woodward, COO, House of Brick

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Built-in Back up Policies

DBA’s have limited time to enable, monitor, and test backup and recovery policies for all databases.

Solution: Built-In Backup Policies

• Fully integrated backup & restore process

• Automated scheduled backups

• Policy driven backup retention

• Self-service manual backups

• Dual backup techniques integrated into single policy

• External Backups

• Snapshots with Database Consistency

• Point-in-Time Recovery

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Flexible Database Templates

Solution: Flexible Database Templates

• Customize templates for database configuration and backup

• Robust role-based access control which templates users can access

• Search and browse templates

• Fast provisioning

Benefits

• Enforce IT standards and control

• Ease of use

• Ensure reliability and repeatability

Database provisioning and configuration requires sophisticated DBA with limited time.

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Learn More

At Vmworld

• Tuesday 3:00 PM: Data Strategy of VMware with Charles Fan (CAP2153)

• Tuesday 4:00 PM: Powering DBaaS with June Yang (CAP2154)

• Wednesday 9:30 AM: Enable DBaaS on VMware with Charles Fan (GD14)

• Wednesday 12:30 PM: Enable DBaaS on VMware with Boris Weissman (GD36)

• VMware Solutions Exchange Demo Booth

• VMware Labs: HOL12 Optimizing Data Access for Your Cloud Infrastructure

Online

• http://www.vmware.com/go/datadirector