Configuring an external database
In this recipe, we will attach Orchestrator to an external database. The internal Orchestrator PostgreSQL is production-ready, however for certain designs, such as Orchestrator Cluster and large deployments we still require one.
Getting ready
We will need a database; the following databases are supported with vRO7:
- Oracle 11g all editions - 64 bit
- Oracle 12g/c all editions - 64 bit
- SQL Server 2008 R1/R2 all editions - 64 bit
- SQL Server 2012 R1/R2 all editions - 64 bit
- PostgreSQL
You will need to create an empty database for Orchestrator, and you should also create a dedicated user account for Orchestrator to access the database.
If your database requires SSL, you will need to import the SSL certificate first; for this, ...
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