Category Archive: NDB

Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.9.0.4

Today, 2026-01-14, a new dot dot dot version of Nutanix Database Service has been released meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is 2.9.0.4. This release comes with 8 CVEs, to ensure that you stay secure and compliant Pictured borrowed from Nutanix official web page Supported Software AOS versions ย 7.3, 7.0, 6.10, and 6.5 AHV …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.9.0.3

Today, 2025-12-17, a new dot dot dot version of Nutanix Database Service has been released meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is 2.9.0.3. This release comes with 17 CVEs, to ensure that you stay secure and compliant Pictured borrowed from Nutanix official web page In addition to the CVEs there is also one fix …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.9.0.2

Today, 2025-12-01, a new dot dot dot version of Nutanix Database Service has been released meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is 2.9.0.2. This release comes with 11 CVEs, to ensure that you stay secure and compliant Pictured borrowed from Nutanix official web page In addition to the CVEs there is also one fix …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.9.0.1

Yesterday, 2025-10-22, a new dot dot dot version of Nutanix Database Service has been released meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is 2.9.0.1. This release comes with 45 CVEs, to ensure that you stay secure and compliant Pictured borrowed from Nutanix official web page In addition to the CVEs there is also one fix …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.9

Today, 2025-10-201, a new version of Nutanix Database Service has been released meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is 2.9. This release comes with a lot of new features and capabilities. Pictured borrowed from Nutanix official web page Highlighted New Features & Functionality You can backup and recover the NDB control plane to/from an …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.8.1

Yesterday, 2025-05-28, approximately two months following the previous release Nutanix released a new dot dot version, 2.8.1, of Nutanix Database Service. As usual when itโ€™s a dot dot release the focus is on fixing bugs and addressing security issues and not so much focusing on new features and making improvements but still there are improvements …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.8

Today, 2025-03-24, a new version of Nutanix Database Service has been released meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is 2.8. This release comes with a lot of updates Pictured borrowed from Nutanix official web page Highlighted New Features & Functionality You can connect one Nutanix Control Plane to six Nutanix clusters Maintenance Window for …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.6.1

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 support๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ Pictured borrowed from Nutanix official web page Highlighted New Features & Functionality Support for: AOS 6.10 vSphere 8 …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.6

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 …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.5.1

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 …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.5

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 …

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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 iโ€™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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