Description
Streamlined Database Management
Unified Control and Visibility
Provide enterprise-grade database services with a purpose-built solution for VMware Cloud Foundation, ensuring high availability, performance, backup, and monitoring.
Automated Management
Lower costs and complexity with pre-built automation to deploy and manage data services at scale.
Developer-Ready
Speed up application innovation with self-service capabilities, robust APIs, and a variety of certified data service offerings.
Key Features
Simplified Deployment
Easily start managing databases with the installation of a single Data Services Manager appliance (OVA).
Database Insights
Gain access to built-in, database-specific insights for databases managed by Data Services Manager, ensuring optimal performance.
Unified Resource Management with Templates
Utilize the new Infrastructure Policy concept to consolidate and abstract compute, storage, and network resources into a unified construct.
Static IP Address Pool
Assign new databases with specific IPs from the static address pool, ensuring they meet IT network and security guidelines.
Custom Database Configurations
Tailor all applicable database configuration settings, ensuring smooth and compliant database deployment.
Database-Level LDAP Authentication
Implement Active Directory (LDAP) authentication and integration on a per-database basis.
Developer-Friendly Kubernetes API: A new Kubernetes-style declarative API designed to simplify database management workflows, enabling developers to define desired states effortlessly for smoother operations.
Use Cases for Data Services Manager
Application Modernization: As open-source database instances and types proliferate due to application modernization, IT teams must enhance their data infrastructure with greater automation and best practices to ensure reliable, high-quality, and secure data. Simultaneously, optimizing database licensing is essential for effective cost management.
Database-as-a-Service: Empower developers to deliver applications at high velocity with a self-service solution that enables them to request and access databases within minutes, all while ensuring IT compliance and governance.
Simplified Data Privacy and Compliance Management: Strengthen the privacy and compliance of your database data on vSphere with a single management interface, ensuring easy oversight and control of your compliance efforts.
Optimize and Consolidate Your Databases: Leverage VMware Cloud Foundation to enhance resource optimization, prevent database sprawl, and apply standardized lifecycle management to your databases.
Private AI: Vector databases play a crucial role in RAG workflows, facilitating fast data querying and real-time updates that enhance the outputs of large language models (LLMs) without the need for costly and time-consuming retraining. They have become the standard for Generative AI and RAG workloads. Data Services Manager streamlines the delivery and management of vector databases by leveraging pgvector on PostgreSQL. Read the Reference Architecture for more insights.