We’re glad to announce the most recent VMware Cloud Director Extension for Knowledge Options 1.2. It comes with a brand new information service MongoDB to cater to these supplier tenants who want quick, extremely scalable, and dependable NoSQL databases for his or her fashionable apps.
Now allow us to see what Knowledge Options Extension 1.2 brings in. As we beforehand said, the Knowledge Options Extension is coupled with a brand new service MongoDB, which is available in two editions – Group and Enterprise.
What are the benefits of MongoDB with Knowledge Options Extension?
Each MongoDB Group and Enterprise editions are put in with a Knowledge Options Extension Kubernetes operator to a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster. MongoDB Group gives excessive availability and scalability by enabling duplicate units, and safe connection to the information cluster with TLS (Transport Layer Safety) encryption. Whereas the MongoDB Enterprise version builds on the capabilities of the Group version with MongoDB Ops Supervisor which helps tenants additional handle, backup, and monitor their MongoDB databases.
How can a MongoDB service be provisioned with VMware Cloud Director Extension for Knowledge Options?
Through the set up of Knowledge Options Extension 1.2, runtime-defined entities are created in Cloud Director for the next objects: information options occasion, cluster, pre-defined options template, Kubernetes operator, and configuration.
The Outlined entities symbolize exterior assets that VMware Cloud Director can handle. They assist extensions and plug-ins retailer and manipulate extension-related data in VMware Cloud Director. The runtime-defined entities hold the state of the exterior assets and can be utilized as a substitute of a neighborhood database.
As a pre-requisite for utilizing Knowledge Options Extension and provisioning an information or messaging service, tenants will need to have a TKGm (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Multi-cloud) cluster created with Container Service Extension 4.0 or later. This cluster can be used for the service deployment. Every service occasion is deployed with the assistance of a Kubernetes operator. It extends Kubernetes’ capabilities to handle extra advanced, stateful workloads.
After the Knowledge Options Extension set up is full, the supplier administrator wants to supply the registries the place the MongoDB Group and Enterprise photos are positioned. Solely then, the supplier administrator will be capable to publish these providers to their tenants.
When the MongoDB Group is printed to a tenant group, the tenant can begin creating their very own cases. For the MongoDB Enterprise version, tenants have to arrange the main points of the MongoDB Ops Supervisor which is able to assist them handle their provisioned providers and monitor their efficiency and standing by it.
How can a MongoDB service be managed with Knowledge Options Extension?
The Knowledge Options Extension 1.2 comes with pre-defined templates that suppliers set as featured to their tenants. Because of this solely MongoDB providers with particular CPU, reminiscence, and RAM can be accessible to tenants for provisioning. Though, tenants can nonetheless change the parameters within the yaml file of the service.
In Knowledge Answer Extension 1.2, the information options operator for Kubernetes will be set to mechanically improve, which signifies that the provisioned providers by it’s going to even be mechanically upgraded.
The tenant directors can nonetheless handle the improve of their providers: by upgrading the service itself and by upgrading a selected occasion.
The MongoDB Enterprise providers will also be backed up and restored with the MongoDB Ops Supervisor by the Knowledge Options Extension UI.
What are the automation choices for MongoDB providers with Knowledge Options?
Along with the help of MongoDB Group and Enterprise editions, the Knowledge Answer Extension 1.2 additionally supplies API (Software Programming Interface) help for the numerous supplier and tenant operations on information providers. All these operations are lined intimately within the Knowledge Options Extension 1.2 API Information. Get your copy at this time and begin planning your Knowledge Options Extension automation.
How can I improve to Knowledge Options Extension 1.2?
Easy. Go to Buyer Join and obtain the Knowledge Options Extension 1.2 ISO, then add it to a folder and mount it to a particular folder. As soon as prepared, run an set up command to take away the earlier Knowledge Options Extension model, set up its executables, and join the brand new information options model to your VMware Cloud Director. Lastly, you have to replace the container registries for the MongoDB Group and Enterprise providers within the supplier portal. Now you’re all set.
How are the MongoDB providers with the Knowledge Options Extension metered and billed?
The MongoDB Group service is free-of-charge, whereas the MongoDB Enterprise version requires a license obtained from MongoDB. Presently, VMware doesn’t cost the provisioning of MongoDB Group and Enterprise providers. The one factor that has been charged is the underlying infrastructure wanted for these providers to run.
The remainder of the Knowledge Options providers – VMware RabbitMQ, VMware SQL with MySQL, and VMware SQL with PostgreSQL are billable. Although, their utilization isn’t mechanically metered by Utilization Meter. Suppliers should manually test the utilization associated to these providers both by the VMware Tenant App or use the kubectl instrument to determine the containers operating the provisioned providers. The utilization is billed per CPU core utilized by the container operating the offered service.
You will discover additional data on the utilization calculation within the Companion Join Program Product Utilization Information.
Conclusion
Knowledge Options Extension 1.2 delivers on its promise to supply extremely scalable, safe, and dependable information providers to our suppliers and their tenants. With the introduction of the MongoDB Group and Enterprise editions to the Knowledge Answer Extension, we broaden our information providers portfolio and assist tenants select the suitable information service for his or her fashionable apps.
