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About VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions

VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions is a plug-in for VMware Cloud Director, which enables multi-tenancy customers to deliver a portfolio of on-demand caching, messaging and database software at a massive scale. Service providers can offer their tenants an integrated solution, which allows them to operate and manage data-as-a-service across private clouds and sovereign clouds.

The diagram shows how all the extension components work together to deliver data-as-a-service capabilities to VMware Cloud Director users.

What's New in the VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions Documentation

VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions version 1.4 includes the following new features:
  • Support for backing up and creating scheduled backup for VMware SQL with Postgres & VMware SQL with MySQL database instances
    • Tenants can create, view, and delete backup locations (Kubernetes clusters) from the new Backup & Restore page.
    • Tenants can create on-demand backups as well as create, pause, and resume schedule backups.
  • Support for restoring backup up for VMware SQL with Postgres & VMware SQL with MySQL database instances

    Tenants can restore a database instance from an existing backup. They can restore it either from the Instances or Backup & Restore page.

  • Support for generating consumption based metering report of database instance

    Service Providers can view the real-time CPU and Memory consumption, per database instance, through UI or API.

  • Support for custom solution templates

    Service providers can perform the following actions on existing solution templates:

    • Clone
    • Edit name and default values
    • Delete non-built in templates
    • Publish or unpublish

  • VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions Enhancements

    • Upgrade of the add-on instance removes all legacy versions of VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions add-on instances.
    • All deployment errors are promoted as a banner.

Other resources

VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions API Guide