We are glad to announce the overall availability of VMware Cloud Director extension for VMware Data Solutions model 1.0 as of November 3, 2022.
VMware Cloud Director extension for VMware Data Solutions is a plug-in for VMware Cloud Director (VCD) that permits cloud suppliers broaden their multi-tenant cloud infrastructure platform to ship a portfolio of on-demand caching, messaging and database software program companies at large scale. This brings in new alternative for our Cloud Providers to supply further cloud native developer companies along with the VCD powered Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
With model 1.0, we ship VMware RabbitMQ assist, an environment friendly messaging and occasion streaming service supply. The assist for the opposite companies within the VMware Data Solutions portfolio will likely be rolling out within the coming days.
This launch brings in capabilities for Cloud Providers and tenant customers alike to provision messaging queue companies and occasion streaming companies to allow distributed software messaging, and the power to course of information in movement.
Let’s check out among the highlights of this launch
The plug-in offers a complete set of options with a easy user-facing self-service UI for the lifecycle administration of those Data Solution companies. The resolution might be managed instantly from the VCD administration console.
Cloud Providers can publish choose options, on this case VMware RabbitMQ, to pick tenant orgs and assign roles for tenant customers.
Cloud Providers can create, publish, and handle RabbitMQ templates – a set of predefined parameters to create a service occasion – for his or her tenants. Fig 1.2 reveals a pattern of the labelled templates revealed by suppliers.
They even have the choice to label the templates to push featured ones to their tenants for prepared consumption or publish default templates throughout board. However, tenant customers even have the choice to customise these templates based mostly on their software/requirement (developing subsequent).
Tenant customers can use these templates and create a service occasion. They can do it in two methods.
One, by readily utilizing the supplier revealed templates, the place they choose the template, select the cluster to be deployed and DONE!
The second choice is making a personalized service occasion. The resolution gives full YAML customization and Management Console configuration supported.
The UI offers a dashboard that offers a single pane view throughout a number of cases with particulars round options deployed (at present solely RabbitMQ), ‘Top Organizations’ – ranked based mostly on service consumption, standing views of cases and so on. as proven in Fig 1.2a
Users also can view particulars of resolution cases throughout the setting. This might be considered from the ‘Solutions’ tab as proven within the fig 1.2b
The resolution additionally permits customers to view and monitor the RabbitMQ cases deployed by the extension. The console readily provides the choice to open Grafana as quickly as an example is chosen, ought to it’s beforehand put in.
1.3b – viewing the chosen occasion on Grafana
This brings us to the subsequent query,
How a lot does this value?
VMware Cloud Director extension for VMware Data Solutions comes with zero further value to our cloud suppliers. Please observe that the extension doesn’t include a value part, nonetheless, cloud suppliers must report their service consumption of Data Services (RabbitMQ) which do carry a value part.
This launch makes a good proposition for cloud suppliers to supply Data Solution companies and onboard new tenants (primarily developer personas). They can supply this as both a self-service for the information skilled tenants or as a managed service throughout multi-clouds, personal clouds, and sovereign clouds.
Additional Resources:
Release Notes
Product Documentation
Product Download
VMware RabbitMQ
VMware Data Solutions
Developer Ready Clouds
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