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 Rocky Linux 8.
- Operating system patching and rollback using custom commands meaning you can now define the exact operating system patching command and control exact what patches are applied from one or more multiple repositories.
- Prism Central and Objects Integration with NDB which is recommended when you run NDB in large scale and you can.
- Provisioning Nutanix Object Store with NDB
- Registering Prism Central Instances with NDB
- Oracle RAC Database Patching Enhancements and you can:
- Use Transparent Application Continuity (TAC) to reduce application downtime
- Run pre and post patch commands.
- HTTPS Support for Objects
- New OOB profiles:
- POSTGRES_15.6_ROCKY_LINUX_8_OOB
- POSTGRES_15.6_HA_ENABLED_ROCKY_LINUX_8_OOB
- Additional software included are Patroni 3.2.2, etcd 3.5.12, HAProxy 2.8.9, and Keepalived 2.1.5.
- MARIADB_10.11_ROCKY_LINUX_8_OOB
- MYSQL_8.0_ROCKY_LINUX_8_OOB
- POSTGRES_10.23_HA_ENABLED_ROCKY_LINUX_8_OOB – Only for NDB Control Plane High Availability deployments.
- HTTPS Support for Objects
- You can control VM-Host distribution behavior.
- Guardrails for:
- Network latency meaning if network latency is above 25 ms between two Nutanix clusters you can’t enable NDB Control Plane High Availability.
- Compute configuration meaning if the CPU and memory requirements are not satisfied you can’t enable NDB Control Plane High Availability.
- Strong focus on security and addressed many, +100, Security Vulnerabilities fixed.
Supported Software
- AOS versions 6.8.1, 6.8, 6.7, 6.6, 6.5, 6.1.1, and 6.1
- AHV versions bundled with AOS 6.8.1, 6.8, 6.7, 6.6, 6.5, 6.1.1, and 6.1
- vSphere versions 7.0, 6.7, and 6.5
- Prism Central version 2024.1
- Objects version 4.3.0.2
New Supported DB and OS versions
PostgreSQL
- RHEL 8.8 – PG EDB16
- HA proxy version – 1.8
- etcd version – 3.4.20
- Patroni version – 3.2.2
- KeepAlived version – 2.1.5
MariaDB:
- RHEL 8.8 MariaDB 10.3 Community
- RHEL 8.10 MariaDB 10.11 Community
- RHEL 8.10 MariaDB 10.6 Enterprise
- RHEL 9.4 MariaDB 10.11 Community
- RHEL 9.4 MariaDB 10.6 Enterprise
MongoDB
- RHEL 8.10 Mongodb 6.x Enterprise
- RHEL 8.10 Mongodb 7.x Enterprise
MysSQL
- RHEL 8.8 MySql 8.0.36 Community
- RHEL 8.8 MySql 8.0.36 Percona
- RHEL 8.10 MySQL 8.0.36 Community
- RHEL 9.4 MySQL 8.0.26 Oracle Enterprise
Useful links
NDB 2.6 Download or download via NDB
Njoy the new NDB version …. 🙂