Before you install and configure VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions, verify that you are familiar with the product versions that we support and that you have all the necessary privileges to complete specific operations.

Interoperability information

Data solutions support

Solution VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.0 VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.1
VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes 1.3 1.3, 1.4
VMware SQL with MySQL for Kubernetes Not Supported 1.5, 1.6
VMware SQL with Postgres for Kubernetes Not Supported 1.9, 2.0

External Components

Note: If you want to use a load balancer with TLS for VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes, you need vSphere Cloud Provider Interface version 1.3.0 or later. You can configure it in VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension.
Component VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.0 and later
CSE 4.0 and later
Kubernetes 1.22 and later
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Multi-Cloud 1.5.4 and later

For more information on interoperability, see the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix.

Access control and user roles

Provider administrators install the Data Solution extension to VMware Cloud Director and perform various provider operations within the extension.

Tenant administrators can view all the data within their organization. They might have the rights to provision Kubernetes clusters and to create data solution instances.

Tenant VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions operators install the data solutions extension operator to Tanzu Kubernetes Grid multi-cloud. In addition to required rights for this user role, the tenant operators must also have edit right on specific Tanzu Kubernetes Grid multi-cloud clusters.

Tenant VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions users perform day-to-day operations on the data solution instance management, for example, creation, update, and deletion.

Table 1. User roles and rights
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions role Description VMware Cloud Director roles and rights
Provider administrator You need this role to:
  • Install and onboard VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions.
  • Publish VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions to tenant organizations.
  • Manage container registries.
  • Manage solution templates.
  • View VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions usage metrics.
 Provider administrator
Tenant administrator You need this role to:
  • View published data solutions.
  • View data solution instances.
  • View the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid multi-cloud activation status.
  • View VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions usage metrics.
 Organization administrator
  • Administrator View
  • View Tenant Portal Plugin Information
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSCONFIG
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCETEMPLATE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSPROVISIONING
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSCLUSTER
Tenant VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions operator You need this role to:

Activate Tanzu Kubernetes Grid multi-cloud for VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions.

 Custom VMware Cloud Director role
  • Administrator View
  • View Tenant Portal Plugin Information
  • View: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
  • View: VMWARE:DSCONFIG
  • View: VMWARE:DSPROVISIONING
  • View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCETEMPLATE
  • View: VMWARE:DSCLUSTER
  • Manage user's own API token
  • Edit: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSPROVISIONING
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSCLUSTER
  • Administrator Full Control: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
Tenant VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions user You need this role to:
  • View published data solutions.
  • Manage data solution instances.
 Custom VMware Cloud Director role
  • View Tenant Portal Plugin Information
  • View: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
  • View: VMWARE:DSCONFIG
  • View: VMWARE:DSPROVISIONING
  • View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCETEMPLATE
  • View: VMWARE:DSCLUSTER
  • View: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE