With this dot dot dot release made available yesterday, 2022-11-22, the NDB engineering team has fixed two issues you might encounter for the NDB logical construct database group which is applicable to the database engine MSSQL. Both issues (registration and snapshot) are related to the corner case when you have a mix of standard disks …
Category Archive: Era
NDB Maintenance Window – Part I
Lately i have received quite a few questions around the Nutanix Database Services (NDB) Maintenance Window functionality which was released with NDB version 2.5. Based on this i have decided to put together a blog series about it and this first one will cover the basics. See the other part(s) via: NDB Maintenance Widow – …
Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.0.2
As you might have noticed Nutanix has changed the release cadence for NDB meaning small incremental changes are made publicly available in addition to major and dot releases. This has several advantages for both customers and Nutanix and the most obvious is that the improvements are made available for the entire customer base at the …
Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.0.1
Quick note: With the newly released 2.5 version of Nutanix Database service (NDB), formerly known as Era, you could run into a situation where the upgrade failed with error “File couldn’t be uploaded: Invalid file format” To address this Nutanix have released a new NDB version called 2.5.0.1 today. If you missed the NDB 2.5 …
Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5 Released
Today, 2022-10-03, a new version of Nutanix Database Service, formerly known as Era, has been released meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is 2.5. Before going into the new features & functionality i’d like to highlight the new NDB control plane (instance) scalability capability which now includes management of up to 1 000 DBs, …
Nutanix Product Ports & Protocols
Not sure if you have already seen this already but recently Nutanix made a change to its overall documentation available via portal.nutanix.com. The change includes where product ports and protocols information is displayed and instead of keeping it in each and every products documentation it will be available via one place which makes it way …
Nutanix NDB 2.4.1 Released
About 2.5 months since the previous release of Nutanix DBaaS NDB, formerly known as Era, version 2.4, a new version called 2.4.1 was released today 2022-04-11. It enables you to patch Standby Oracle Databases in addition to primary databases and includes support for latest the AOS release meaning AOS 6.1. There are many enhancements and …
Nutanix NDB Security Document Version 2.2
The Era Security document has been updated to reflect a Database Instance Account management improvement that was included in the Era version 2.4 but unfortunately missed in the previous document update. Since Era version 2.4 it is supported to update the DB engine PostgreSQL database user (postgres) password for the database instance. After the password …
Nutanix NDB Database Group Management
Back in summer 2021 Nutanix NDB, formerly known as Era, version 2.2 was released which you can read about here. One of the features introduced was the concept of MS SQL Server database groups which mean you can group multiple databases running in the same database instance as one Time Machine entity. This applies to …
Nutanix NDB Security Document Version 2.1
Another update to the NDB (formerly known as Era) Security document has been released to reflect the security enhancements included in the most recent release meaning NDB version 2.4. There are two major improvements to the security aspect in Era 2.4: Password management for the Era Management Plane Repository (database) Account(s) meaning postgres or postgres …
NDB – Select Different Compute Profiles During PostgreSQL High Availability Provisioning
IMPORTANT: It is not supported to use different Compute Profiles for the different DB Server VMs, just different Compute Profiles for the group of DB Server VMs & the HA Proxy VM(s)!!!! ——————————————————————————————— When provisioning a PostgreSQL High Availability setup using Nutanix NDB, formerly known as Era, you have the option to also deploy a …
Nutanix NDB 2.4 Released
Today, 2022-01-24, Nutanix has release version 2.4 of its DBaaS platform NDB, formerly known as Era. This version will let you manage 600 DBs across two Nutanix cluster from a single Era instance. Great enhancement. Highlighted New Features Apart from the scalability improvement already mentioned there are eight major new features in this new version …
Era Managing the Network IP Pool or Not
Wanted to tell you about a confusion i have seen a few times when it comes to Era Networks and consuming Era via the API. In my example below, from the Era UI, the network default-era-npx5-01 has Manage IP Address Pool set to In Era meaning Era will assign IP Addresses from its IP pool to DB …
Nutanix NDB Reporting Script Databases Version 1.1
Just a quick note to let you know that i have updated the NDB, formerly known as Era, DB Reporting script with one new column, Database/Instance Status, which will be reported as the following: Information about the reporting script can be found in the original blog post which is available here. In short it let’s …
Era – Advanced Configuration Via Eraconfig UI Section
As i trust most of you familiar with Nutanix Era already know the Era configuration is stored in the repository (repo) backed by a PostgreSQL database running in the Era appliance. There are multiple options available for managing and configuring your Nutanix Era plattform. UI – Which actually performs API calls to the back end. …
Nutanix ERA Security Document Version 2.0
Back in March earlier this year (2021) i published a blog post about an Era Security document i have put together and made available via the Nutanix Portal. As you might be aware of the document has been updated to reflect the changes included in Era version 2.3. When the initial Era Security doc was …