More Powerful Database Operations, Enhanced AWS Support and Increased Engine Compatibility
By Cesar Rojas, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Nutanix
Nutanix is excited to unveil Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.8, our latest release with important enhancements to simplify database operations, operate in public cloud environments, and extend support for more database engines. NDB is a database lifecycle management platform for building database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for SQL, NoSQL and vector databases in hybrid multicloud environments. NDB enables enterprises to provision, backup, recover, clone, patch, and scale databases while promoting security, performance and compliance. Leading organizations worldwide use NDB to manage thousands of heterogenous databases and deliver DBaaS to their organizations.
NDB 2.8 features multiple capabilities that enable enterprises to manage large database deployments in a hybrid multicloud world. Whether you are streamlining complex database patching, providing business continuity across your database applications, or running critical workloads in the cloud, NDB 2.8 helps to simplify the process. Let’s dive into some of the key highlights of this release.
Database lifecycle management gets a boost with NDB 2.8 with the introduction of SQL Server bulk patching maintenance window. You can now define a schedule to automatically apply patches across multiple SQL Server instances, which eliminates manual per-server patching processes and unlocks the potential for time savings and reduced operational overhead. Alongside this, NDB 2.8 includes improvements to Oracle patching processes. These updates can help you keep your databases current and secure, with minimal disruption.
The NDB 2.8 control plane can now manage up to six clusters – double the previous limit of three –while supporting up to 300 databases across those clusters. This significantly increases flexibility to deploy database replicas across more regions and datacenters.
Enterprises can now configure setups such as three locally synced replicas and three remote ones for robust business continuity in your database management infrastructure. This update helps support complex, compliance-driven topologies such as those seen in financial services, federal government and other data-intensive sectors.
NDB 2.8 provides a clear picture of backup health. NDB customers have requested better visibility into backup recoverability. This release delivers just that with a refined GUI and back-end changes that monitors backup integrity. NDB also now flags the health of backups using a red-yellow-green status, allowing customers to more easily troubleshoot potential issues.
Gaps in backup timelines can also be detected by NDB 2.8 – whether intermittent or persistent. NDB 2.8 also assesses potential recovery delays, such as when a missing snapshot requires replaying transaction logs, helping customers to have a high level of confidence in their backup and recovery efforts.
These enhancements are helping customers to address data protection needs, according to HYCU, a Nutanix technology alliance partner. "We’re excited about the rapid pace of innovation with Nutanix NDB and the added value that the enhanced Time Machine capabilities bring to customers,” said Subbiah Sundaram, senior vice president of product at HYCU. “As the first partner to deliver a fully integrated data protection solution for NDB, we remain committed to providing seamless data protection for customers leveraging the power of NDB," he added.
NDB 2.8 with the Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) platform on AWS incorporates Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking to promote better connectivity. This update is designed to ease database manageability in hybrid clouds and supports popular database engines, including SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, and MariaDB for compatibility with a wide range of workloads.
Additionally, this enhancement provides support for high-availability database clusters on AWS, such as PostgreSQL high availability, MongoDB Replica Sets and SQL Server Always On. These configurations help businesses maintain reliability and uptime for critical applications in the cloud.
For organizations managing hybrid cloud environments running NDB on NC2 on AWS provides unified database management across on-premises and AWS. Businesses can use the same processes in both settings, simplifying operations and reducing the need for separate workflows.
NDB 2.8 is also adding support for the latest major version of several leading database engines, including Postgres 17, EDB EPAS 17, and MongoDB 8.
Enterprises that require precise control over IP assignments – often for compliance or DNS purposes – will appreciate the new ability to manually select IP addresses from a predefined pool when provisioning MongoDB instances, replica sets and clusters. This enables NDB to support rigid enterprise networking requirements.
Your database hybrid multicloud future starts here:
Sign up for the April 17 NDB Tech Talk: Register and learn more about NDB 2.8 from our experts.
Dive into the detailed release notes: To explore how these features can benefit your organization.
Learn from other NDB customers: Read how leading companies worldwide and across diverse industries are using NDB to successfully manage thousands of heterogeneous databases while pursuing their cost, performance and productivity objectives.
Attend NDB sessions at the .NEXT 2025 customer conference:
Next-Gen Lifecycle Management for SQL, NoSQL and vector databases with NDB
Why Are So Many Financial Services Companies Choosing Nutanix Database Service?
Mastering Complex Database Migrations with Nutanix: Advanced Techniques for Seamless Transitions
Take a Test Drive: Experience NDB capabilities.
Questions: Please contact your Nutanix account team.
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