PyPgDay 2013 - HA / Replication for PostgreSQL in Virtualized Environments

My presentation at PyPgDay 2013 on HA and Replication for PostgreSQL on Virtualized Environments

A Step Forward

Recently I upgraded my  "lab" setup.
Now it currently looks as follows:

* 2x  Physical Hosts running vSphere 5.1
* Controlled by vCenter 5.1 Server Appliance backed with embedded Postgres Database instance
* Monitored by vCenter Operations which has two embedded Postgres Database instance in the vApp
*To monitor my VMs, I installed  vFabric Hyperic 5.0 also running embedded Postgres Database VM.
* DBaaS provider vFabric Data Director 2.5 also installed with its embedded Postgres database instance running too

Now for my VMs:
* vFabric Postgres 9.1.6.0 VM   integrated with vSphere HA
* My Linux Developer VM running PostgreSQL 9.2.1 

If you get everything you need with Postgres, why even QA for other databases anymore?
Well vFabric Hyperic took the first bold step forward. 

SFPUG Oct 2012: DVDStore Benchmark and PostgreSQL

I presented the DVDStore Benchmark at SFPUG yesterday night.
The presentation is available at http://portal.sliderocket.com/vmware/SFPUG_DVDStore
The video is located at http://www.justin.tv/sfpug/b/335041570

PGOpen 2012: DVDStore Benchmark and PostgreSQL

My slides to go with the Demo I did with DVDStore Benchmark and PostgreSQL session.
http://portal.sliderocket.com/vmware/PGOpen2012_DVDStore


Other session presentations are available at https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Postgres_Open_2012

Postgres @ VMware

Recently VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.0 u1a was released with embedded Postgres based distribution. Check out the release notes.

Quote from release notes:
 "vCenter Server Appliance Database Support: The DB2 express embedded database provided with the vCenter Server Appliance has been replaced with VMware vPostgres database. This decreases the appliance footprint and reduces the time to deploy vCenter Server further."

vCenter Server Appliance joins the growing list of VMware products embedding and/or supporting Postgres.