Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.4

Today, 2024-03-13, Nutanix released a new version of Nutanix Database Service, NDB, meaning the latest available version is 2.5.4. The release comes with a strong focus on security and it also bring improvements and fixes for Oracle, MSSQL & PostgreSQL in addition to RHEL 8.8 support for Oracle v19, PostgreSQL community edition v15, MySQL v8.0.36 …

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NDB DB Server VM Vertical Scaling

With the release of NDB 2.5 back in October 2022 the capability of vertically scaling your DB Server VM was added as a tech preview and as you know Nutanix does not recommend you to use tech preview features in production environments. However i’m happy to let you know that vertical scaling is no longer …

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Prism Central 2022.6.0.10

A few days ago, 2024-01-11, a new version of Prism Central was released meaning the latest version available is 2022.6.0.10. This release comes with an enhancement in AIOps regarding Capacity Planning and the release notes further down in the post also lists some known issues which might be good to be aware of.. Software Included …

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Nutanix Objects Version 4.3

Yesterday, 2024-01-10, a dot version of Nutanix Objects (Objects) has been released meaning latest and greatest version is now 4.3. Nutanix Objects is a software-defined Object Store Service and that you can consume & managed via both standard S3 APIs and Prism Central. Picture borrowed from Nutanix web page. Version 4.3 comes with the following …

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Nutanix AOS 6.5.5 & AHV 20220304.478

Today, 2024-01.10, Nutanix released a new long term support (LTS) version of AOS meaning the latest version available is 6.5.5. As usual you can read more about the difference between LTS & STS here. The main new feature in this dot dot release is “Support for Multiple Client Subnets for Volumes Segmentation” but it also …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.3.1

Today, 2023-11-30, Nutanix released a new version of Nutanix Database Service, NDB, meaning the latest available version is 2.5.3.1. The release focus on security and addresses 40 vulnerabilities on the NDB server and NDB agent VMs which will benefit the entire NDB customer base. In addition to the security fixes there are improvements to the …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) Remove Nutanix Cluster

There might be situations where you need to remove a Nutanix cluster which is being managed by Nutanix Database Services (NDB). This can easily be done via via API and UI but there are certain pre-requisites that needs to be in place before you can start the process including: The NDB Server VM must not …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) Operating System Pacthing Rollback

Operating system patching is available via Nutanix Database Service (NDB) since version 2.5 for Linux based database servers virtual machine when running database engines Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. I just wanted to bring to your attention some additional information that was added to the NDB User guide around operating system patching yesterday, 2023-11-15, when it …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) Operator for Kubernetes

You might have seen and even tried out the Nutanix Database Service (NDB) operator for Kubernetes while it’s been under development for some time and now it’s made GA. The operator provides simplified database life-cycle management to K8, can run both inside and outside of K8 and includes the following capabilities with it’s initial release: …

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Nutanix Move 5.1

Yesterday, 2023-11-09, which is not even 1.5 months after the previous release of Nutanix Move (version 5), which you can read about here, a version of Move was released the latest available version is now 5.1. With Move you can migrate both VMs between environments with minimal downtime and also migrate files to Nutanix Files. …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.3

Today, 2023-11-06, Nutanix released a new version of Nutanix Database Service, NDB, meaning the latest available version is 2.5.3. Even though this is a dot dot release it brings, in addition to bug fixes, enhanced capabilities and also a new feature which is SSL Support for PostgreSQL. This means NDB can manage databases with SSL/TLS …

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Nutanix Database Service – ERA_DAEMON_UNREACHABLE

A few days ago i ran into an interesting problem where the NDB UI as well as NDB CLI listed one Oracle database and the Database Server virtual machine (VM) as down with the status ERA_DAEMON_UNREACHABLE. The Database Server VM was up and running and i could access it via ssh via my MacBook, from …

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VeeamON Resiliency Summit 2023

In less than two days the Global virtual event VeeamOn Resiliency which is completely free to attend, will start so it’s about time to register unless you haven’t already.  Since the focus during the event is data resiliency you’ll learn about latest cybersecurity threats plus trends so you know how to take appropriate actions. As …

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Nutanix AOS 6.5.4 & AHV 8.0.8

Yesterday, 2023-00.11, a new long term support (LTS) version of AOS was made available meaning we are now at version 6.5.4. As usual you can read more about the difference between LTS & STS here. The main new feature in this dot dot release is “Support for Multiple Client Subnets for Volumes Segmentation” but it …

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Apply for Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) 2024

The Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) program for 2024 is open now and you got until November 2:th 2023 to apply. The announcement of the new members will take place in December 2023. The NTC program is looking for Nutanix hybrid multicloud experts and the following areas will be taken into consideration when the members are …

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Nutanix Move 5

Today, 2023-09-27, a new major version of Nutanix Move has been released and now it’s not only a VM migration tool which makes it possible to migrate VMs between environments with minimal downtime, but also a file migration tool since files can be migrated non Nutanix files servers to Nutanix Files. Both NFSv3 & SMBv2 …

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