The feature I appreciate the most in Nutanix Database Service is the Time Machine. The simplicity of the Time Machine feature in Nutanix Database Service and being able to have a point in time that you can go back to at whatever your retention period is, is really great and helpful for us.

The Time Machine feature in Nutanix Database Service has definitely reduced turnaround time for when we need clones or other environments spun up off of our existing environment, such as for corruption. It has helped the workload significantly. We're a very small team of database administrators. It worked really effectively for them and helped the workflow much more than our previous solution.

Using Nutanix Database Service has reduced the time it takes to provision a database by 75%.

The efficiency gained by using Nutanix Database Service has led to a positive impact on our business as far as bringing in new applications and workloads. Being able to clone and spin up other environments off of what we already have in NDB eases turnaround time when requests come in, and we're able to fill them and get them back to the business and make them available to customers.

We've been able to automate DBA tasks. It simplifies turnaround time. Our DBA can deploy on how own and no longer waits for requests to be fulfilled. 

What I appreciate the most about Nutanix Database Service is the standardization and ease of deployment. It makes it easier for the database administrators to deploy without either the database administrator or the business needing all their staff and waiting a long period of time to have their request fulfilled.

Using Nutanix Database Service has reduced the time it takes to provision the database. It takes just a couple of days. When we plan a project, we typically define a few weeks for database server buildouts. That would entail the building, the initiation of the server builds, the deployment of the database application of choice, and then the customization of the database. With Nutanix Database Service, we're able to templatize these offerings. The deployment is a lot faster, which allows the DBAs to perform their tasks more quickly. Instead of waiting for weeks, it's just a matter of days for that turnaround.

What I appreciate the most about Nutanix Database Service is that it's simple; it's all in one bundle, and everything is pre-configured so that you can deploy your database and protect it. It's autonomous, needing a few clicks and a few pre-configurations.

It saves a lot of time. It also gives the capability to export JSON commands.

The features of Nutanix Database Service that I appreciate the most are that the provisioning is easy to implement.

The provisioning and other features of Nutanix Database Service have improved my company by making it easy to deploy the databases, and DBAs can just deploy what they need as needed instead of having to manually create VMs for them individually and install the databases and setting everything up with DBAs provisioning databases themselves.

The impact of Nutanix Database Service in general has been great time savings. If users need to deploy a database quickly, they can just reach out to the DBAs directly and then they set it up for them to go right away as opposed to having to wait for us to have time.

The ability to provision databases themselves has affected developer productivity. The developers, not the DBAs, can handle it, and the DBAs provision for them. Our developers use Nutanix Database Service to provision or refresh databases directly from their development environments.

Nutanix Database Service has helped automate database admin tasks.

This automation of database admin tasks has affected the type of tasks my DBAs are now able to do, and it saves them time as when a developer needs to have a database, they can do it themselves.

We can easily scale database deployment. 

I appreciate being able to provision a database quickly from our side. We provision it and hand it off. It makes work much easier. Previously, it would take a week or two to do the same in a traditional way, whereas now, it gets completed within about an hour.

Sometimes the DBAs provision it themselves, but they're not very well trained on it yet. They either don't want to do it or might be apprehensive, so they're not doing as much as they should be. However, they are getting more involved gradually. It may also be that the database we're using is really important, and they don't want to risk breaking anything.

It is fast to do the provisioning because everything is done from base templates. As long as you have a template that is updated periodically, it just creates a mirror.

I wanted a tool that offers enough monitoring for everything related to load balancing in my databases. This seems to be a highly valuable feature of Nutanix Database Service.  We want our database admins to have greater control when monitoring so that the databases we use today are more flexible, and the storage capacities can also be monitored.

We only deployed it last month and haven't used it on a wider scale, but so far, it's perfect. Judging from the migration alone, Nutanix looks much faster than VMware. It has increased the uptime.

Nutanix helped automate database admin tasks like provisioning, recovery, and patching.

With the ease of provisioning, Nutanix has really helped to expand and fast-track the provisioning of the applications.

The API and monitoring features are good. Nutanix is good for my use case. I don't see the need for it to improve.

Our developers use Nutanix to provision and refresh databases directly from their development environments. It affects developer productivity. They're a lot faster. They can create all Dev databases on demand. When they want something, they execute the code and they have the environment, clean, fresh, and usable.

With Oracle, it took around one hour to refresh the database and now, with Nutanix, it takes a quarter of that time. 

Nutanix has helped to automate tasks. I schedule a refresh for a clone every morning for the team for troubleshooting purposes. 

It has simplified my life. It simplified tasks. 

I can check the status of my database from my monitoring tool, the report teams can refresh the database with API, and close the database with API. It's very useful and powerful.

I like how easy it is to implement MySQL, SQL, and open-source database platforms.  Our developers use Nutanix Database Service to refresh databases directly from their development environments. For instance, we can upload more than 500 databases with just twice the CPU load. 

We use MariaDB enterprise versions. It has simplified our work and enabled us to deploy customers who use these solutions.

Nutanix Era effectively reduces operational overheads by streamlining the application team's implementation of multiple environments. The solution provides databases for audit or analytics services, which are crucial in operations. It supports fast database cloning, enabling quick responses from the application team for product launches without accessing production databases. Proper use reduces errors from infrastructure teams and improves time to market efficiently.

Management and provision are the most important features of Nutanix Database Service.

One of the most valuable aspects is the operations perspective. The features are suitable, especially on the database side, as our operations and upgrades on databases have improved a lot. You can also allocate storage to it easily.

The data analytics are also good along with the data reporting. We report certain IT data on a weekly and monthly basis, and it helps a lot with that, giving us consistent data.

It is also a single platform, all in one place, and that is the reason we went for this solution. Earlier, we had multiple platforms, the database and the OS, but this is a single platform that helps us with what we are doing.

Overall, it is easy to use, but up-scaling was important. We are well-versed in virtualization, Oracle Databases, et cetera, but even when Nutanix DBaaS was a new product for us it was still very effective.

The most valuable features of Nutanix are its robust infrastructure management tools, including a powerful firewall, analytics for system performance, and convenient automation. 

What I like about this solution is that it's more reliable compared to other solutions.

The Time Machine is the most valuable feature for us. Using it means that we don't have to take regular snapshots, yet we are still able to restore the database quickly in the event of a problem.

We use Nutanix Era to perform in-place backup and restores of our databases. Taking about one hour to complete a restore, this product has reduced our overall downtime.

We are able to create multiple backups during the day without affecting our production workloads, which is important because we receive and manage sensitive data, including personal information, and when we have a problem we can easily restore the previous backup. The RTO is very short.

The creation of multiple daily backups is also good in terms of limiting the amount of possible data loss. This is good for our operations because when we do have a problem, we don't lose any data.

Managing databases can be done through a single pane of glass, which means that we don't have to make use of many interfaces to manage different database engines. From a single place, we are able to see what's happened in our environment.

One feature that is very good is the backup and validation process that's built into Era. It saves a lot of time and gives you some kind of assurance that when you actually pull a backup, it is done correctly and you will be able to restore it. In other backup systems, because they are not database-aware, that validation process is not as easy because you have to actually restore the backup to see that it worked. With Era, it actually validates on the fly so you know you'll be able to restore.

The deployment process is a lot easier, due to the fact that with Era you can actually script a deployment. If you have a lot of deployments of the same type, say for instance you have a user request coming in to say they need a basic database schema, you can just run that as a deploy script and it automatically sets up everything. It takes about five minutes and the users have access to their database. In the past, we had to go through a whole setup and deployment process, which for us, took about half a day. That's a lot of time that we save.

Setting up a development test and production environment is quite easy and it saves a lot of storage because the dev and test databases are non-data clones of production, where only the changes are saved. For example, if you have a two-terabyte production database then it saves a lot of space because you don't have to have a two-terabyte test database as well.

The solution allows quick setting up of new development environments and ensures the use of the storage more efficiently. It manages to create new clients to be utilized for development or reporting.

We have an enterprise-level backup product that we're required to use, so we don't rely on Era's version. But occasionally that other system goes down and I wouldn't have any automated backups except for what I have with Era. For us, it's a great fallback, but for other companies, it could be an awesome first-line backup. It's very elegant the way they designed it. It's quick and it doesn't take up nearly as much storage space as traditional backups. It would definitely help to save on tier-one storage. For other companies, that would be a big selling feature.

When it comes to performance and flexibility with Oracle workloads, it's excellent.

The patching is the most valuable feature. We spent a lot of time and effort on the patching of our SQL instances after hours. With Nutanix Era, you can schedule and automate them during your normal operational hours (during the day). You schedule all the patching, then everything happens automatically with minor tickets from the engineer. So, our patching, which took four hours, went down to an hour for the engineer. This is much better for us from a return on investment perspective.

From an always-on availability perspective, it has simplified the process quite extensively. While this is not such an important feature for us, it has simplified things as a centralized access point to all our instances.

With all the advanced logging that takes place within Nutanix Era, it definitely has increased the visibility of our team into the actual processes which are running, what are being consumed, long-running queries, etc. Within Nutanix Era, it is a simple view.

It's a vast solution, so it depends on what the customer needs. We provide the Kubernetes cluster, and if you want a particular server, we provide the files. We use Karbon, Era, AHV and Prisim Central. We are also now in the process of testing out the VDI feature as well.

The solution enables us to speed up the creation of new instances. A DBA might take a day or two to do it, but the solution can help us do it in half an hour. The snapshot feature is useful.

The automation and ease of using the solution are great. It saves us time.

This is a very useful solution for database management. 

The most valuable feature in Nutanix Era is that the clients can use it for automatization as well as virtualization.  

There is no extra charge for other things. There is a scaled-down deployment. They get only the features that the client is issued.  

Overall, the solution is very good. It's easy to use and simple to handle many actions, such as VM cloning, testing, and prediction.

The most valuable features are working with database errors. There are a lot of options for working with the database.

The interface is easy to use.

The most valuable feature of Nutanix Database Service is the ability to manage multiple vendors.

We use the solution to save costs and simplify operations.