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 SQL Server
- NDB on NC2 on AWS with Flow Virtual Networking
- Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for MongoDB
- CipherTrust Transparent Encryption (CTE) for PostgreSQL
- Defining IP Addresses for MongoDB during provisioning.
- Strong focus on security and addressed many Security Vulnerabilities fixed.
Improvements
- Secure Path Configuration in Sudoers File
- Additional Time Machine health monitoring
- SSH Key options
Supported Software
- AOS versions 7.0, 6.10, 6.8.N, and 6.5
- AHV versions supported by AOS 7.0, 6.10, 6.8.N, and 6.5
- vSphere versions 8.0 and 7.0
- Prism Central version 2024.2 and 2024.3
- Objects version 4.3.0.2, 5.0 and 5.0.1
- Flow 5.0.0
New Supported DB and OS versions
- MongoDB version 8 both community edition and enterprise edition
- PostgreSQL version 17 both community edition and EDB
- RHEL 9.5
- Rocky Linux 9.5
- Patroni version – 3.3.n
Useful links
Njoy the new NDB version …. 🙂