Nutanix Database Service 2.11

Nutanix Database Service 2.11 makes managing enterprise databases more flexible, resilient, and secure. This release adds new disaster recovery capabilities, simplifies scaling for high-availability deployments, strengthens security, and streamlines day-to-day database operations.

New

• Scale SQL Server and PostgreSQL high-availability clusters by adding or removing database nodes without reprovisioning or downtime.

• Protect MySQL high-availability deployments with automated snapshots, log backups, point-in-time recovery, and in-place restores.

• Encrypt MySQL and EDB PostgreSQL databases using externally managed encryption keys to better protect data at rest.

• Enable disaster recovery for PostgreSQL high-availability databases with built-in replication and failover across sites.

• Store PostgreSQL write-ahead logs in Nutanix Objects for more scalable and resilient recovery.

• Share databases and clones with granular access levels so teams can safely collaborate without requiring administrator privileges.

• Centralize audit logs for user actions across the UI, CLI, and APIs for improved governance and compliance.

• Expand MongoDB sharded clusters online by adding shards or routing nodes without downtime.

• Generate more targeted diagnostic bundles by selecting specific log categories and time ranges.

• Choose Oracle Data Guard IP addresses directly from the web console during disaster recovery configuration.

• Run built-in upgrade readiness checks before upgrading to identify and resolve issues early.

• Configure custom PostgreSQL collation settings during provisioning and cloning to support application-specific requirements.

Improvements

• Restore and clone encrypted MongoDB databases more seamlessly while automatically updating encryption keys.

• Provision new SQL Server databases with Volume Groups by default for a more modern storage experience.

• Speed SQL Server provisioning from backups while improving storage layout and post-provisioning performance.

• Increase SQL Server Storage Spaces scalability with support for larger volumes and faster restore operations.

• View Time Machine snapshots in a sortable list for improved accessibility and easier navigation.

• Strengthen security by routing Prism API communication through NDB, eliminating the need to store Prism credentials on database servers.

• Resume backup operations sooner during control plane upgrades to reduce recovery point exposure.

• Simplify Windows database server provisioning by removing the dependency on Agent VMs.

• Upgrade the NDB control plane to Rocky Linux 9.8 for improved security, stability, and performance.

• Add support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 on MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL deployments.

• Upgrade to Python 3.11 and Ansible 2.18 for better performance, security, and platform compatibility.

• Simplify networking with a single-NIC control plane architecture for new deployments.

• Improve PostgreSQL upgrade automation with automatic WAL archive migration.

• Detect stale Linux volume groups before provisioning to help prevent deployment failures.

Fixes

• Improved upgrade reliability, role-based access control, snapshot cleanup, disaster recovery workflows, and system recovery.

• Fixed Oracle provisioning, storage management, and database registration issues.

• Resolved SQL Server provisioning, registration, cloning, storage, and Availability Group reliability issues.

• Improved PostgreSQL high-availability node management, disaster recovery, and API support.

• Fixed MongoDB certificate handling, snapshot reliability, and Ops Manager integration issues.

• Corrected Time Machine reporting and SMTP configuration issues in the user interface.