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Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.9

Today, 2025-10-201, a new version of Nutanix Database Service has been released meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is 2.9. This release comes with a lot of new features and capabilities.


Pictured borrowed from Nutanix official web page

Highlighted New Features & Functionality

  • You can backup and recover the NDB control plane to/from an s3 compatible object store.
  • Database Disaster Recovery for Oracle using Oracle Data Guard including setup & failover.
  • Support for both Oracle Data Guard cascaded setup and multiple standby.
  • MySQL High Availability provisioning.
  • SELinux ”enforcing mode” support – For selected DB engines and different configuration requirements so consult the NDB Administration guide.
  • Cloud-init Support for Linux-based Database Engines
  • Time Machine backup interoperability with Cohesity,

Improvements

  • NDB Control Plane is now running PostgreSQL version 16.
  • Support for both Oracle Data Guard cascaded setup and multiple standby.
  • Support for WinRM over HTTPS support for SQL Server environments
  • Time Machine Storage Consumption Reporting
  • Up to 80 DB DB Server VMs can be patched in the same Maintenance Window.

Supported Software

  • AOS versions 7.3, 7.0, 6.10, and 6.5
  • AHV versions supported by AOS 7.3, 7.0, 6.10, and 6.5
  • vSphere versions 8.0 and 7.0
  • Prism Central 2024.2, 2024.3 and 7.3
  • Objects version 5.0, 5.0.1 and 5.1
  • Flow 5.0.0

Useful links

Njoy the new NDB version …. 🙂