VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.6

1.6 1.5 1.4

Before you begin

Before you begin using
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
, review the supported solutions and what privileges you need to deploy them.

Supported data solutions

Review the supported data solutions and their specifications.
Backup and restore for
MongoDB Enterprise
,
MongoDB Community
,
Tanzu RabbitMQ
, and
Confluent Platform
 solutions is available, but not through the the
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
 UI. For more information, see the official documentation of the relevant solution.
From VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.6 you cannot upgrade the existing Tanzu MySQL and Tanzu Postgres instances to newer versions.
Type
Data Solution
Tenant
Kubernetes
 Cluster Required
Supported Data Management Functionalities in the
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
 UI
Disaster Recovery
Multi-zone HA
Create, update, delete
List
Upgrade
Backup and restore
Management Console
Monitor
Metering
Sharing
Relational Database
VMware Data Services Manager
 Postgres
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✔️(With Alerts)
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VMware Data Services Manager
 MySQL
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✔️(With Alerts)
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Tanzu Postgres
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Tanzu MySQL
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NoSQL Database
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Messaging
Tanzu RabbitMQ
✔️
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Streaming
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Tenant user roles and rights

To be able to complete some operations in
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
, you must have all the necessary privileges.
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. Specifically, the user's role must include the following rights:
  • Edit VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
  • ReadWrite
     right in the access control list of the cluster Runtime Defined Entity (RDE) instance.
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.
After upgrading
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
 to version 1.6 you must manually update the
Tenant VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions operator
 and
Tenant VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions user
 roles with the
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
 1.6 rights.
User roles and rights
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
 role
Description
VMware Cloud Director
 role
Minimal
VMware Cloud Director
 rights (View)
Minimal
VMware Cloud Director
 rights (Manage)
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.
  • Attach and detach
    MongoDB Ops Manager
     to tenant organization.
Organization Administrator
Built-in
  • Administrator View
  • View Tenant Portal Plugin Information
VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension
 related
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
Data Solutions related
  • View: VMWARE:DSORGCONFIG
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSCONFIG
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCETEMPLATE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSPROVISIONING
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSCLUSTER
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSBACKUPSCHEDULE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSBACKUP
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSBACKUPLOCATION
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSRESTORE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSMETERING
  • View: VMWARE:DSINFRASTRUCTUREPOLICY
  • View: VMWARE:DSSTORAGELOCATION
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
 1.6 rights:
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSARCHIVEDCLUSTER
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSLOGBUNDLE
Data Solutions related
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSORGCONFIG
Tenant
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
 operator
You need this role to:
Install, update, and uninstall the
Data Solutions operator
 for
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
.
Custom role
Built-in
  • Administrator View
  • View Tenant Portal Plugin Information
VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension
 related
  • View: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
Data Solutions related
  • View: VMWARE:DSCONFIG
  • View: VMWARE:DSPROVISIONING
  • View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCETEMPLATE
  • View: VMWARE:DSCLUSTER
  • View: VMWARE:DSORGCONFIG
  • View: VMWARE:DSMETERING
  • View: Metering (v10.5+)
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSBACKUPSCHEDULE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSBACKUP
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSRESTORE
  • Administrator View: VMWARE:DSBACKUPLOCATION
Built-in
  • Manage user's own API token
VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension
 related
  • Edit: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
Data Solutions related
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSPROVISIONING
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSCLUSTER
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSORGCONFIG
  • Full Control: Metering (v10.5+)
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSMETERING
  • Administrator Full Control: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • Administrator Full Control: VMWARE:DSBACKUPLOCATION
  • Administrator Full Control: VMWARE:DSBACKUP
  • Administrator Full Control: VMWARE:DSBACKUPSCHEDULE
  • Administrator Full Control: VMWARE:DSRESTORE
Tenant
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
 user
You need this role to:
  • View published data solutions.
  • Manage data solution instances.
Custom role
Built-in
  • View Tenant Portal Plugin Information
VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension
 related
  • View: VMWARE:CAPVCDCLUSTER
Data Solutions related
  • View: VMWARE:DSCONFIG
  • View: VMWARE:DSPROVISIONING
  • View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • View: VMWARE:DSINSTANCETEMPLATE
  • View: VMWARE:DSCLUSTER
  • View: VMWARE:DSORGCONFIG
  • View: VMWARE:DSBACKUPSCHEDULE
  • View: VMWARE:DSBACKUP
  • View: VMWARE:DSRESTORE
  • View: VMWARE:DSBACKUPLOCATION
  • View: VMWARE:DSINFRASTRUCTUREPOLICY
  • View: VMWARE:DSSTORAGELOCATION
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
 1.6 rights:
  • View: VMWARE:DSARCHIVEDCLUSTER
  • View: VMWARE:DSLOGBUNDLE
Data Solutions related
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSINSTANCE
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSBACKUPSCHEDULE
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSBACKUP
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSBACKUPLOCATION
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSRESTORE
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
 1.6 rights:
  • Edit: VMWARE:DSARCHIVEDCLUSTER
  • Full Control: VMWARE:DSLOGBUNDLE

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