As the blog post heading reveal this one will be about Nutanix Era security. Sine i trust most of my readers now know what Era is and can to for your business i will not describe the solution but instead dive into the topic right away. Commonly discussed topics in regards to security i have …
Category Archive: Era
Monitor Era Operation Progress – ServiceNow & Era Integration
Almost same heading a for another blog post Monitor Era Operation Progress β Calm & Era Integration π the objective for this blog post is exactly the same meaning monitor Era operations from an overlying Era consumer. The Era consumer in this case is ServiceNow and not Calm. In this blog post i will share …
Nutanix ERA – How To Protect Database Data v2
A while ago i posted a blog about how to protect database data for DBs managed by Era. The blog post was based on a Nutanix public document i put together and it can be found here here This is just a short blog post to let you know that the Nutanix document has since …
Heads Up! – New Nutanix Era Version 2.1 PostgreSQL User and Group Requirements
Quick note to let you know about a PostgreSQL related change that has been implemented in Nutanix Era 2.1. As you know Era comes with a PostgreSQL software profile including VM built on CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 and PostgreSQL version 10.4. This Era software profile is not affected meaning this note is addressing the PostgreSQL …
Monitor Era Operation Progress – Calm & Era Integration
Iβm getting more and more questions about integrations to Nutanix Era from overlying self-service, automation and orchestration services/tools. Itβs a perfect match since integrations to Era is one of my responsibilities these days so keep the questions coming:) There is another blog post which covers Era progress monitoring via ServiceNow available here. In this blog …
Nutanix ERA 2.1 Released
2021 is just a few days in and i already have some great news to share:) Nutanix Era, the Nutanix database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solution version 2.1 has been released. In Era version 2.0 Nutanix Multi-Cluster support was added meaning you could manage DB workloads across multiple Nutanix Clusters. There was an option to store DB snapshots: …
Nutanix ERA – DataOps
As most of you already know Nutanix Era is a platform that delivers database as a service (DBaaS). It automates and simplifies database administration including: Provisioning Clone Refresh Backup Restore Patching The below figure is borrowed from Nutanix official documentation and describes the Era logical overview. In addition to the included databases in the above …
Nutanix ERA – How To Protect Database Data
βββββββββββββββββββββββββ Updated 2021-02-02: Updated version available here βββββββββββββββββββββββββ Nutanix Era is a platform that delivers database as a service (DBaaS). It automates and simplifies database administration including: Provisioning Clone Refresh Backup Restore Patching In summary Era brings one-click simplicity and invisible operations to database provisioning and life-cycle management. The following picture describes the Era logical …
Nutanix Era Consumed via Nutanix Calm
This video will showcase how Nutanix Era can be consumed via Nutanix Calm. The following tasks are included in the video: Provision PostgreSQL Database Instance Perform Log CatchUp Take Snapshot Restore Database Instance Clone Database Instance During the provisioning Calm reaches out to Era to get the available Era Profiles and SLAs meaning it is …
Nutanix ERA 2.0 Released
Happy to let you know what Era 2.0 has been release. There are a lot of new features and new functionality in Era 2.0 and i have been working with quite a few of them already. The single most important new feature in my opinion is the Multi-Cluster Support Era multi-cluster capability allows you to …
Nutanix ERA 1.3.1 Released
Yesterday, 2020-07-09, Nutanix released a new version of Era meaning version 1.3.1 is now the latest and greatest. For you thatβs is not familiar with Nutanix Era itβs a database management & data copy solution which you can read more about here Version 1.3.1 comes with an enhancement to Windows Domain Profiles, which is a …
Nutanix Era API Integration – DB Deployment using python
During a recent Nutanix Era proof of concept (POC) the customer wanted to drive database management via the Era API and not provide the consumers with Era UI access. This can easily be done since Era provides a rich set of functionality via its API, actually everything you do via the UI is an API …
Nutanix ERA 1.3 Released
Today, 2020-06-02, Nutanix released a new version of Era meaning the latest ad greatest version is now 1.3. For you thatβs is not familiar with Nutanix Era itβs a database management & data copy solution. There are enhancements and or new features in the following areas: Era Server Deployment Japanese UI support Time Machine Easy …
vRealize Automation & Nutanix Era Integration – Time Machine Snapshot
This integration video follows the same theme, Nutanix Era, as the three previous videos which are available via: ServiceNow & Nutanix Era Integration β Time Machine Snapshot ServiceNow & Nutanix Era Integration β Provision a MariaDB Database vRealize Automation & Nutanix Era Integration β Provision a PostgreSQL Database This one is also about the Nutanix …
ServiceNow & Nutanix Era Integration – Time Machine Snapshot
This integration video follows the same theme, Nutanix Era, as the two previous videos which are available via: ServiceNow & Nutanix Era Integration β Provision a MariaDB Database vRealize Automation & Nutanix Era Integration β Provision a PostgreSQL Database This one is about using a Nutanix Era feature called Time Machine which provides one-click database …
Nutanix ERA 1.2 Released
Yesterday, 2020-01-02, Nutanix released a new version of its database management & data copy solution, Nutanix Era, meaning latest and greatest version is now 1.2. There are enhancements and or new features in the following areas: Era Server Oracle PostgreSQL SQL Server One feature that I know, coming from an infrastructure background, will be much …












