Era offers the following key services for several database engines:

• One-Click Provisioning

• Copy Data Management

• Database Protection

• 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

• Database engines: Custom software images that can be tailored to fit your needs.

• Database profiles: Customizable database profiles for software, compute, networking and database parameters.

• Database recovery SLAs: Customizable recovery SLAs for continuous, daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs)

Copy Data Management

• Era enables you to clone your databases and refresh the database clones by using snapshots or transaction logs.

• Era uses storage-efficient Nutanix snapshots, thus lowering the cost of storing multiple copies of your databases.

• Era allows you to clone and refresh your clones to a point in time, making the clone and refresh operations highly granular.

• The Era copy data management service includes the following components:

  • Time Machine: Collects logs and snapshots from the database.

  • One-click cloning and refresh: zero-byte database clones to any point in time.

Database Protection:

• Era protects your database with full database consistent backups within a matter of minutes.

• With Era, you can do the following:

  • One-click snapshots for simplifying database rollback.

  • Explore your backup data through a robust time machine.

  • Backup your datastores instantaneously with no overhead.

One-Click Patching:

• Ensure data security with one-click patching to efficiently validate critical database updates. 

• Era provides out-of-band patching of databases to eliminate database configuration sprawl.

For more information, please refer to  Era User Guide