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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 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 …. 🙂