Category Archive: Era

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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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 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 (NDB) 2.5.2.2

A few days ago, 2023-08-21, Nutanix has released a new version of Nutanix Database Service, NDB, meaning the latest release available version is 2.5.2.2. This release is fixing a NDB Control plane VM issue where the VM might get started on wrong Linux kernel. The following software versions are supported with NDB 2.5.2.2 AOS – …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.2.1

Today, 2023-07-05, Nutanix has released a new version of Nutanix Database Service, NDB, meaning the latest release available version is 2.5.2.1. This release is focusing on security enhancements and solving issues in the following areas: NDB Upgrade Quite a lot of effort has been put into this to make the upgrade experience better. Oracle Improvements …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.2

Today, 2023-05-17, Nutanix has released a new version of Nutanix Database Service, NDB, meaning the latest release available is 2.5.2. With this release NDB now supports Oracle 21c and there has been additions to supported versions of the components required to provide high availability for PostgreSQL HA deployed DBs via NDB according to: Picture borrowed …

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NDB Quick Tip VIII – PostgreSQL EnterpriseDB

NDB currently supports PostgreSQL with both single deployment model and in a highly available deployment model.  PostgreSQL community edition (CE) is what i’m getting most questions about and what i have seen our NDB customer using the most but some customers are also using PostgreSQL EnterpriseEDB and this is also an edition which NDB supports. …

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NDB Quick Tip VII – Manage Multiple Types of MSSQL DBs

As you might be aware of NDB supports Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) based databases including both Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) and always on availability group (AAG) as well as standalone databases. See information about NDB supported configurations for MSSQL here So now on to the actual quick tip 🙂 If …

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NDB Quick Tip VI – DB Server VMs with same IP Address

Can NDB manage DB Server VMs with same IP address ? The above question has come up a few times over the past few months when discussing DBaaS with potential customers. The short answer is NO, each DB Server VM needs to have a separate IP address and to date it has never been a …

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NDB Quick Tip V – New NDB Documentation Structure

Welcome to the fifth blog post in the NDB quick tip series which will cover the NDB administration guide. Other blog posts in the Quick Tip series are: NDB Quick Tip IV – NDB Pulse Telemetry NDB Quick Tip III – Supported Functionalities per DB Engine & DB Server VM Operating System NDB Quick Tip …

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NDB Quick Tip IV – NDB Pulse Telemetry

The is the forth blog post in the NDB Quick Tip series &  will be about NDB Pulse data. Guess you’re already familiar with Nutanix Pulse data for your Nutanix clusters, right ? Other blog posts in the Quick Tip series are: NDB Quick Tip III – Supported Functionalities per DB Engine & DB Server …

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NDB Maintenance Window – Part III

This is part II of the NDB Maintenance Window blog series. See the other part(s) via: NDB Maintenance Widow – Part I NDB Maintenance Widow – Part II NDB Maintenance Window – Part III The third post about Maintenance Window will be about how to remove a DB Server VM. This can definitely be done …

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