With the new Calm 3.5 release we are getting a feature requested by more and more Nutanix customers and that is —-Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Support—- This is really great news and brings another layer of flexibility and security to your overall self-service solution driven by Calm. A tunnel virtual machine (VM) is required on …
This is one of the firt times i write about Nutanix Objects also called just Objects and you will in the not so far distant future understand why 🙂 Objects is an object store service which is designed and provides an Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (AWS S3) compatible REST API. As you know …
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 …
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 …
A few weeks back Nutanix Calm version 3.4 was released which i wrote about here and as you know Calm is running as a container, actually two containers, in Nutanix Prism Central (PC). For some time there has been an option to run Calm as a standalone VM on ESXi and with the release of …
Yesterday, 2022-03-08, Nutanix released a new dot version of its multi-cloud application management framework Calm meaning the latest and greatest version is now 3.4. As i trust you already know, Calm brings the following key functionalities to the table: IT Agility and Human Error Elimination Unified Multi-Cloud Orchestration Automated Self-Service with Centralized Control Nutanix Marketplace …
A few days ago, 2022-03-02, Nutanix released a new version of Karbon, which provides provisioning and operations of Kubernetes clusters, meaning latest and greatest version is now 2.4. The new version comes with the following new and or improved features: GPU Pass-through Support Support for Kubernetes v1.21 Nodepool Improvements Cluster Logging Improvements Alerting Improvements In addition the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A new version of the Nutanix Container Storage Interface (CSI) Volume Driver for Kubernetes has been released meaning the most recent version is now 2.5. It comes with the following new and/or enhanced features: CSI NFS Volume Resize feature allows dynamically resizing of persistent volumes (PVs). NFS IP whitelist meaning the NFS volume can only …
Two days ago, 2021-12-27, Nutanix released a new patched version of Prism Central based on the updated security issues with log4j. It was only seven days since the previous patch so let’s hope this is the last one addressing the log4j issue but you never know. As usual Prism Central can be downloaded via Nutanix …