You can create, manage, and monitor databases through VMware Data Services Manager. As a DSM administrator, you can create, monitor, and manage all databases in your DSM environment. As a DSM user, you can manage and monitor only those databases that you create.
About the DSM User Console
In the VMware Data Services Manager environment, a user in the DSM user role interacts with the DSM console to view details of their data service deployments, and to perform various management tasks on these databases.
Scope
The VMware Data Services Manager User Console is available to users in the DSM user role. The same views and operations are available to DSM admin through the DSM Administrator Console, but the scope of the information that displays differs:
A user in the DSM user role has the privileges required to view and manage only the objects that they own.
A user in the DSM admin role has the privileges required to view and manage all objects in the VMware Data Services Manager environment.
About the Dashboard
The Dashboard provides an at-a-glance view of the number and type of provisioned databases.
Click Dashboard links to create a database and to drill-down and view detailed information about existing databases.
About the Console Views
The VMware Data Services Manager user console provides several views that enable you to create, monitor, and manage databases. You can access a view of interest via the left navigation pane, and in some cases, from the Dashboard.
Use the console to access the following items and perform database operations:
| Object | Description |
|---|---|
| Databases | |
| Monitor database alerts. | |
| Enable database backups. | |
| Perform a point in time recovery of a database. | |
| Clone a database. | |
| Operations | View and monitor operations that are targeted on database VMs, Provider VMs, Templates, and Infrastructure. |
| Collect database logs. | |
| View and manage database settings. |
