Nutanix Database Service Reviews

My main use cases for Nutanix Database Service are for SQL workloads and the cloning of lower-end environments.

There's been a positive impact. We're bringing in new applications and workloads and being able to clone and spin up other environments off of what we already have. It eases turnaround time. When the requests come in, we're able to fill them and get them back to the business, and make them available to the customer fast.

My main use case for Nutanix Database Service is to provide faster deployment of databases to the business.

This has benefited my company by providing a faster turnaround time with quicker deployments. Instead of waiting one to two weeks for a new database service to be up and running, it takes only a couple of days. Our turnaround time has improved tremendously.

Our database administrators use the solution to provision or refresh databases directly from their development environment. The ability to provision databases themselves allows for faster execution. When the business users need new databases to be provisioned, they usually request the database team. There is a faster turnaround time through the portal interface and the automation behind the scenes.

It expedites the turnaround time, allowing us to be flexible. We are able to provide the business with a product that they need right away, and we're also able to scale it as their requirements change. We're also able to introduce recovery options that would have required more effort, but now the Nutanix Database Service allows for seamless integration, all fully automated. It doesn't overcomplicate the timeline process.

It has helped us to automate database admin tasks. This automation affects the types of tasks my DBAs are now able to do because they don't need to worry about waiting for the servers to be built and the applications to be installed, whether it's Oracle or SQL. They go right into the system. With a few clicks, they have something readily available. It then allows them to customize the database for the business or for the application, include indexes or any particular tasks that the business requires, and do custom coding for the actual development. They're able to work on that more quickly than waiting several days before the system is actually ready.

My use cases for Nutanix Database Service are replicated databases between different data centers, and we use it to deploy and protect the databases.

The ability to provision databases themselves has positively affected developer productivity because they don't need to wait for more than a couple of hours; they can perform changes and evolve the product, installing the necessary database in the ecosystem, including Oracle and even PostgreSQL, which is faster than Oracle. It saves a lot of time.

We are currently using Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MongoDB. It's amazing because it saves a lot of time in terms of the backup and the patching process. It takes consistent backups while the database is running, and seamlessly with one click, you have the backup, meaning if something goes wrong, you just go back as a snapshot, saving a lot of time.

Nutanix Database Service helps us scale our database deployment. It allows us to add more resources to the database, expand the memory, CPU, and storage, all just by clicks, which is beneficial. It impacts our operations positively.

Nutanix Database Service has helped automate database admin tasks. Previously, everything was done manually. They no longer need to manually check if a particular patch is compatible with the database engine. It automatically checks compatibility and applies patches, providing a GUI for seeing all the patches installed and saving a lot of time.

Using Nutanix Database Service has definitely reduced the time it takes to provision a database. They don't have to do tasks one by one. They can do everything from the GUI. They can manage all the databases from the dashboard. They don't have to manually check each database. It saves a lot of time.

It allows the developers and DBAs to focus on the important aspects of the database, improving it, and analyzing queries. Even with high-quality hardware, improperly configured queries can collapse resources, so they can focus on those improvements.

Our main use cases for Nutanix Database Service are for provisioning databases.

It makes it easy to deploy databases. 

Our team is the infrastructure team, managing and deploying the database for the database team. We have a requirement for a large database that is very important in the environment, and the DBA team was concerned about losing data. That is the use case for which we purchased the product.

The cloning technology has been beneficial in reducing backup times. Over 6 or 7 terabytes of data takes several days, maybe a week. With the cloning technology in Nutanix Database Service, the time reduces to less than an hour, which is very useful.

As Nutanix Database Service has reduced the time it takes to provision databases, it gives us time to do other things rather than work on minute tasks. We can do things that really matter and help the customer in the long run. With everything nowadays becoming automated, this is definitely a solution we have enjoyed using.

When it comes to automation, Nutanix Database Service definitely makes patching easier because you can clone one and then use Time Machine. We can perform all those tasks via Nutanix Database Service instead of having to fail over manually, patch, and fail back.

I have 19 companies that have implemented S/4HANA, and I provide them with hosting services in two countries: Honduras and El Salvador. 

Nutanix Database Service optimizes our virtual platforms, giving us higher availability. We have billing databases where we bill around 11 million transactions per month. We haven't fully implemented the solution, so we don't know how much it will reduce the time needed to provision a database, but 5 percent would be enough. By converging all my databases on a single platform, I can monitor everything with fewer resources.

Our main requirement was to simplify our database operations and management. We have a large number of databases and we have DBA teams that support and provision databases. The idea was to look into a database as a service. Similar to their offerings in AWS and Azure, where you can provision based on your requirements, and automatically everything will be handled by the platform, reducing human errors and waiting times. This is why we looked at Nutanix.

The time to provision the database went from taking a couple of days to now taking a few minutes. That is the immediate impact we saw. It helped the team to focus more. They can now be focused on support rather than spending time provisioning, which is a repetitive activity.

Additionally, one of the features we really like is the patch management. Patch management was always a challenge for us because we had to schedule. We have to manually apply the patch, and there is a process for it. Now with NDB, this is all automated. There are hotfixes that automatically get applied, there are other major updates that are all managed by NDB. It reduces the team's effort. They can now focus more on fine-tuning and improving the database we have.

We are saving around eighty percent of the time spent on provisioning and recovery with this product. 

Another benefit is the recovery. That's one of the features that I like a lot. It gives us the capability to recover data within minutes. It has a time machine similar to Mac's time machine. You can go back in time and recover your data almost immediately. The traditional way of doing backup and restore usually takes hours and you will have to restore the whole database tool to recover only a little bit of data.

We used to use Oracle ODA and it was difficult to provide test and development database snapshots for the whole Dev team. It's easier with Nutanix. We switched to Nutanix because of its scalability and simplicity. 

Oracle is fantastic but it's really difficult to deploy. With Nutanix, I can deploy an image and I can replicate it to my Dev team. All of my servers have the same CPU, RAM, disk, and cloning. Nutanix is much easier than Linux or Oracle ODA. 

Snapshots take up a lot of disk space in Oracle. My team and I really like that Nutanix duplicates the size of the snapshot.

My organization has improved with Nutanix because now, the Dev team can use CI/CD. Before, it was a monolith application and now Dev cut the application into microservices and began to deploy with continuous implementation, continuous development, and quality assurance. This was impossible with Oracle ODA, it was a monolithic application.