Today, 2024-10-08, a new version of Nutanix Database Service has been released meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is 2.6.1 . The major enhancement with 2.6.1 is NDB on NC2 Azure with Flow Virtual Networking support👍👍👍👍
Pictured borrowed from Nutanix official web page
Highlighted New Features & Functionality
- Support for:
- AOS 6.10
- vSphere 8
- Prism Central 2024.2
- Nutanix Objects 5.0
- Oracle 19.23 qualified for RHEL/OEL 8.10 – this includes udev and asmlib but not asmfd.
- Oracle 19.22-19.24 qualification on SUSE 15 SP5
- PostgreSQL 15 qualification on RHEL 8.10
- PostgreSQL High Availability implementations will now get a default retention period of two days for write-ahead logs (WAL).
- Security Vulnerabilities fixed:
- Rocky Linux 8 : libtiff (RLSA-2024:5079)
- Spring Framework < 5.3.33 / 6.0.x < 6.0.18 / 6.1.x < 6.1.5 Open Redirect (CVE-2024-22243)
- libndp (RLSA-2024:4620)
- kernel (RLSA-2024:4211)
- kernel (RLSA-2024:5101)
- Python Library Certifi < 2024.07.04 Untrusted Root Certificate
- python-jinja2 (RLSA-2024:4231)
- Spring Framework < 5.3.39 Spring Expression DoS (CVE-2024-38808)
- Spring Framework < 5.3.39 / 6.0.x < 6.0.23 / 6.1.x < 6.1.12 HTTP Request DoS (CVE-2024-38809)
Supported Software
- AOS versions 6.10, 6.8.1, 6.8, 6.7, and 6.5
- AHV versions bundled with AOS 6.10, 6.8.1, 6.8, 6.7, and 6.5
- vSphere versions 8.0, 7.0, 6.7, and 6.5
- Prism Central version 2024.1 and 2024.2
- Objects version 4.3.0.2 and 5.0
Useful links
NDB 2.6 Download or download via NDB
- NDB v2.6 Administration Guide – No specific guide for 2.6.1 but the 2.6 is updated with 2.6.1 content
- NDB v2.6.1 Release Notes
- NDB v2.6.1 download portal
Njoy the new NDB version …. 🙂