Managing Data Services

Zadara Cloud administrator can use Command Center to manage mange and monitor data services deployed on Zadara cloud.

Command center displays the status of data services environments (VPSAs and data services virtual machines) and allows the configuration of data services properties.

Monitoring Data Services Environments

Command center Displays data services VPSA as part of the cloud VPSA inventory, A DVM label containing data service identification is attached to the VPSAs allowing for its identification as a data services environment.

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The Data Services VPSA properties contains specific items that present information on the data service configuration and status:

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property

description

DVM Status

Status of the DVM Virtual Controller

Data Service type

Data service image type

Data Service version

Data service image version

DVM Public IP

The Public IP address attached to the data services VM

The Data Services VPSA Networking Configuration also includes the networking configuration of the Data Services Virtual Controller.

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Configuring-Data-Services

Data services can be configured via Command centers Data Services tab.

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To configure a specific data service click on the Actions icon in the rightmost column that correspond to the requested data service.

configuring Asigra backup data service

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From the Asigra data service configuration screens users can:

  • Modify the data service display name

  • Enable or disable the Asigra backup data service for the Cloud

  • Configure data service specific settings using the configuration dialog

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the Asigra data service configuration dialog allows you to set the following:

Data VM storage configuration

property

description

Block

SAN(Block) Disks size and count

File

Filesystems(NAS) size and count

Provisioning Portal(Ecommerce) general attributes

property

description

category

Provisioning Portal data service category

description

Data Service Description (displayed when user selects on the data service in provisioning portal)

display_name

Data service display name in provisioning portal

data_vm_image

image file used when provisioning a data VM for this service

Provisioning Portal(Ecommerce) data service flavors attributes

property

description

flavor

Data VM flavor internal type

vm_count

Data VM count for this data service

vpsa_flavor

Bundled VPSA internal type

display_name

Flavor display name

Data VM networking attributes

property

description

fe_allowed_ports

Ports that are allowed on the data VM front end network

public_ip_allowed_ports

Ports that are allowed on the data VM public network

Data VM licensing attributes

property

description

license_server_url

Primary licensing server URL

license_server_url_alt

Alternate licensing server URL