Nutanix ERA 2.3 Released

Today, 2021-09-20, is a good day for all Nutanix Era customers and fans out there since version 2.3 has been released.

There are nine new features in this dot release and i’d like to quickly present three of the most important once:

You can now deploy the Era management Plane in a highly available (HA) configuration without any single point of failures (SPOFs). If you recall the history you know that the initial Era management plane HA support included HA for the back-end service/repo (PostgreSQL databases) and the next phase included HA for the front-end services. Still there was a SPOF since the Era HA proxy servers were deployed within the same Nutanix cluster. With Era 2.3 comes stretched VLAN support for Era Service High Availability meaning you can place the Era HA proxy servers in different Nutanix clusters.
Provide IP addresses during PostgreSQL provisioning.
You can scale up the DB storage capacity which before Era 2.3 could be tricky 🙂

Now you might think that the rest of the new features are not that important but they are and will provide good value for Era customer base.

MongoDB
- Single Instance Restore
MSSQL
- SQL Server AG Multi-Cluster Restore
- SQL Server Brownfield Multi-Cluster AG Support
- SQL Server File Share Quorum Support
- SQL Server gMSA support
Oracle
- Oracle Brownfield Support

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8.3 8.3 for MongoDB
Improved Era notification service
Entity (database clones) sharing with another user or AD group
Security
- Oracle SUDO Enhancements
- Era Service VMs Password Management Enhancements
- Password Management Enhancements.
Set or unset affinity of clustered database server VMs to their hosts