From the course: VMware vSphere 6.5 Essential Training Part 2

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Demo: Alarms

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Demo: Alarms

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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll look at some of the basic database management tasks required for vCenter. Now, on the vCenter Server Appliance Version 6.5, we have an embedded vPostgres database, and this is simply a PostGreSQL database that is customized and optimized for vCenter. All right, so it's a baked-in database, that is basically purpose-built purely for vCenter and so now we don't really have to rely on any sort of external databases. And of course, the database is a critical piece of vCenter. Many organizations have a team of DBAs that are focused on architecting and optimizing databases. And so, there may be some hesitance to kind of off-load this database maintenance-type task to a vSphere administrator. But VMware's made it very simple, right, there's really not a lot of stuff that you have to think about when it comes to maintaining this database, right, it's very straight forward, very simple, and easy to manage. There are some tuning optimizations that kind of…

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