Today, 2023-02-02, Nutanix has released a new version of Nutanix Database Service, NDB, meaning the latest release available is 2.5.1.2. Yes it’s a dot dot dot release but it brings a nice new capability to the table for customers using NDB Control Plane in HA mode. When you enable HA mode there is now an …
Tag Archive: MSSQL
Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.1.1
It has only been close to two weeks since Nutanix Database Service, NDB, 2.5.1 was released and today a new dot dot dot release has been made available meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is now 2.5.1.1. One enhancement including an alert when the NTP server configuration at the NDB control plane lavel does …
Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.1
About two months ago Nutanix Database Server (NDB) version 2.5 was release which you can read more about here. Today, 2022-12-06, version 2.5.1 has been made available and it comes with some pretty good new capabilities. RHEL 8.6 Version Support for: Oracle 19c (19.16.0.x and 19.17.0.x) PostgreSQL versions 10 through 14. ————————————————————————————————————————————– Important: For RHEL …
Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.0.3
With this dot dot dot release made available yesterday, 2022-11-22, the NDB engineering team has fixed two issues you might encounter for the NDB logical construct database group which is applicable to the database engine MSSQL. Both issues (registration and snapshot) are related to the corner case when you have a mix of standard disks …
Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.0.2
As you might have noticed Nutanix has changed the release cadence for NDB meaning small incremental changes are made publicly available in addition to major and dot releases. This has several advantages for both customers and Nutanix and the most obvious is that the improvements are made available for the entire customer base at the …
Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5.0.1
Quick note: With the newly released 2.5 version of Nutanix Database service (NDB), formerly known as Era, you could run into a situation where the upgrade failed with error “File couldn’t be uploaded: Invalid file format” To address this Nutanix have released a new NDB version called 2.5.0.1 today. If you missed the NDB 2.5 …
Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.5 Released
Today, 2022-10-03, a new version of Nutanix Database Service, formerly known as Era, has been released meaning the latest & greatest NDB version is 2.5. Before going into the new features & functionality i’d like to highlight the new NDB control plane (instance) scalability capability which now includes management of up to 1 000 DBs, …
Nutanix NDB 2.4.1 Released
About 2.5 months since the previous release of Nutanix DBaaS NDB, formerly known as Era, version 2.4, a new version called 2.4.1 was released today 2022-04-11. It enables you to patch Standby Oracle Databases in addition to primary databases and includes support for latest the AOS release meaning AOS 6.1. There are many enhancements and …
Nutanix NDB 2.4 Released
Today, 2022-01-24, Nutanix has release version 2.4 of its DBaaS platform NDB, formerly known as Era. This version will let you manage 600 DBs across two Nutanix cluster from a single Era instance. Great enhancement. Highlighted New Features Apart from the scalability improvement already mentioned there are eight major new features in this new version …
Nutanix – Database Migration
Customers has been running databases on top of Nutanix HCI for quite a few years and the number keeps increasing. One reason being is obviously the magic HCI solution but another major reason is the Nutanix Database Management solution, Era, which i believe you are already familiar with. No matter if you’re using Era or …
Era – Advanced Configuration Via Eraconfig UI Section
As i trust most of you familiar with Nutanix Era already know the Era configuration is stored in the repository (repo) backed by a PostgreSQL database running in the Era appliance. There are multiple options available for managing and configuring your Nutanix Era plattform. UI – Which actually performs API calls to the back end. …
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. Highlighted New Features 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 …
Nutanix ERA 2.2 Released
Today, 2021-06-30, is a good day for all Nutanix Era fans out there since version 2.2 has been released. There are a lot of new and improved features in this release which i trust you’ll find useable no matter what is your preferred DB engine. First of all, Era version 2.2 brings another DB engine, …
Era – Automatically Append Domain Name to DB Server VM Name
I wanted to let you know about an improvement in Era 2.1.1.2 which is really good for any customer deploying MSSQL DB Server VMs into more than one Windows Active Directory (AD) domain. In Era each DB Server VM (VM) needs a uniq name. This is typically not a problem but in an environment where …
Nutanix ERA 2.1 Released
2021 is just a few days in and i already have some great news to share:) Nutanix Era, the Nutanix database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solution version 2.1 has been released. In Era version 2.0 Nutanix Multi-Cluster support was added meaning you could manage DB workloads across multiple Nutanix Clusters. There was an option to store DB snapshots: …
Check MSSQL Version Via Command Prompt
First day of 2021 and the first blog post…. In situations where you don’t have Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio available or if you just like to use command prompt you can use the command sqlcmd to manage and view your Microsoft SQL Server. Before start managing your MSSQL server via command prompt you need …