Category Archive: NDB

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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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.1.2

Today, 2023-02-02, Nutanix has released a new version of Nutanix Database Service, NDB, meaning the latest release available is 2.5.1.2. Yes it’s a dot dot dot release but it brings a nice new capability to the table for customers using NDB Control Plane in HA mode. When you enable HA mode there is now an …

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NDB – Scale Storage for a MongoDB Instance

Since a few NDB versions back it is supported to scale/increase database storage  (data, journal and log) for MongoDB instance via API and CLI, see for example NDB 2.5.1.1 Release Notes to find out NDB capabilities for a MongoDB instance including: Single instance vs Replica set Greenfield which is a DB provisioned by NDB vs …

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NDB Quick Tip III – Supported Functionalities per DB Engine & DB Server VM Operating System

The is the third blog post in the NDB Quick Tip series and this one will be about what functionalities NDB supports per DB engine & DB Server VM operating system. Other blog posts in the Quick Tip series are: NDB Quick Tip II – PostgreSQL extensions NDB Quick Tip I – API v0.9 Back …

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NDB Quick Tip II – PostgreSQL extensions

The second post in the Quick Tip series is about PostgreSQL extensions which is commonly used & it is used to add functionality & improving processes.   The first blog post in the series is available via: NDB Quick Tip I – API v0.9 With the release of NDB version 2.5, release in september 2022, …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.1.1

It has only been close to two weeks since Nutanix Database Service, NDB, 2.5.1 was released and today a new dot dot dot release has been made available meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is now 2.5.1.1. One enhancement including an alert when the NTP server configuration at the NDB control plane lavel does …

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NDB Maintenance Window – Part II

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 NDB really needs an option to add multiple DB Server VMs to a maintenance window I have seen/got the above statement/question, …

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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.1

About two months ago Nutanix Database Server (NDB) version 2.5 was release which you can read more about here. Today, 2022-12-06, version 2.5.1 has been made available and it comes with some pretty good new capabilities. RHEL 8.6 Version Support for: Oracle 19c (19.16.0.x and 19.17.0.x) PostgreSQL versions 10 through 14. ————————————————————————————————————————————– Important: For RHEL …

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