Yesterday, 2020-01-02, Nutanix released a new version of its database management & data copy solution, Nutanix Era, meaning latest and greatest version is now 1.2.
There are enhancements and or new features in the following areas:
- Era Server
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server
One feature that I know, coming from an infrastructure background, will be much appreciated and used a lot is the High Availability for Era Repository. This allows you to enable High Availability for the Era repository and increasing your Era service uptime. It provides automatic recovery when:
- Era Service Process is down
- Era database is down
- Era agent is down
Separate blog post to follow about this.
In addition, the following new functionality is also really good
- SMTP integration – get email notifications for failed or successful operations
- Schedule Oracle DB patching
- Create Windows Domain Join
- Active Directory groups are supported.
- Improvements to Clone schedules
- Improvements to UI e.g. separate Tabs for current and scheduled operations
And much more – read Era 1.2 Release Notes to cover it all.
Now upgrade time 🙂
