Yesterday, 2024-08-19, a new version of Nutanix Database Service, formerly known as Era, has been released meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is 2.6. This release comes with a lot of updates Pictured borrowed from Nutanix official web page Highlighted New Features & Functionality Nutanix control plane VMs are migrated from CentOS 7.9 to …
Yesterday, 2024-06-17, a patch release for 2.5.5 was made available meaning the latest NDB version is 2.5.5.1. As per definition a patch release comes with very limited content and is typically released to address one or a few minor issues. Also, unless you have already noticed, AOS 6.8 is supported with NDB 2.5.5.1 as well …
Today, 2024-05-22, two months after the previous Nutanix Database Service, NDB, version was released Nutanix made a new version available meaning the latest available version is 2.5.5. The dot dot version typically does not include features and new capabilities but with this release MongoDB version 6 is added as a supported database engine version for …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …