Era offers the following key services for several database engines:
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One-Click Provisioning
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Copy Data Management
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Database Protection
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One-click Patching
One-Click Provisioning:
Era enables you to easily provision database environments (either production or otherwise) on the Nutanix clusters. Era provisioning service includes the following components
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Database engines: Custom software images that can be tailored to fit your needs.
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Database profiles: Customizable database profiles for software, compute, networking and database parameters.
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Database recovery SLAs: Customizable recovery SLAs for continuous, daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs)
Copy Data Management
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Era enables you to clone your databases and refresh the database clones by using snapshots or transaction logs.
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Era uses storage-efficient Nutanix snapshots, thus lowering the cost of storing multiple copies of your databases.
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Era allows you to clone and refresh your clones to a point in time, making the clone and refresh operations highly granular.
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The Era copy data management service includes the following components:
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Time Machine: Collects logs and snapshots from the database.
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One-click cloning and refresh: zero-byte database clones to any point in time.
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Database Protection:
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Era protects your database with full database consistent backups within a matter of minutes.
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With Era, you can do the following:
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One-click snapshots for simplifying database rollback.
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Explore your backup data through a robust time machine.
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Backup your datastores instantaneously with no overhead.
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One-Click Patching:
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Ensure data security with one-click patching to efficiently validate critical database updates.
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Era provides out-of-band patching of databases to eliminate database configuration sprawl.
For more information, please refer to Era User Guide