Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.10: MongoDB Certified Support for Shared Clusters and Enhanced SQL Server and MySQL Capabilities

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of the Nutanix Database Service (NDB) v2.10 release. Nutanix Database Service is a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform that enables teams to provision, operate, and scale databases across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments with minimal operational overhead. It supports popular SQL, NoSQL, and vector databases that include Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL with pgvector, EDB, MongoDB, MySQL, and MariaDB.

NDB 2.10 delivers targeted enhancements across MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL environments. From deeper Ops Manager integration and automated sharded cluster management for MongoDB to simplified IP assignment and custom drive letters for SQL Server plus GUI-based HA provisioning for MySQL, this release makes database lifecycle management faster, more consistent, and less manual across on-premises and hybrid cloud.

Enterprise Advanced MongoDB on Nutanix: Certified Ops Manager Integration and Sharded Cluster Automation

Your MongoDB Enterprise Advanced environments are running at serious scale. Sharded clusters are handling massive workloads. Ops teams are managing backups, restores, and monitoring across a hybrid infrastructure. And the last thing anyone needs is another layer of complexity between infrastructure automation and database operations.

Provisioning a new production sharded cluster often requires coordination across multiple teams. Infrastructure teams handle VM and storage provisioning, database administrators configure config servers, shards, and mongos routers, and backup teams align snapshots with Ops Manager agents. Ensuring everything aligns properly helps avoid potential delays in deployment or data protection setup.

In recovery situations, the process involves several steps to prepare the cluster for restore, complete the operation, and bring services back online while maintaining Ops Manager visibility. For large-scale deployments, these steps can take significant time.

NDB 2.10 brings Nutanix Database Service and MongoDB Ops Manager together through a certified integration. Ops Manager provides MongoDB-native backup awareness and control, while NDB adds the infrastructure orchestration, storage-level snapshot automation, and operational simplicity needed to run these workflows efficiently at scale.

Key capabilities available:

• Automated sharded cluster provisioning — Spin up fully production-ready MongoDB sharded clusters in minutes, complete with infrastructure provisioning, configuration, Ops Manager agent installation, and monitoring setup.
• MongoDB-certified backup with performance independent of dataset size – NDB Time Machine integrates with MongoDB Ops Manager to deliver application-consistent, storage-layer volume snapshots. Because protection workflows operate at the storage layer, operational overhead is designed to scale more efficiently as dataset size increases.
• Fast recovery measured in as little as a few minutes — NDB Time Machine snapshot-based workflows are designed to accelerate restore operations and help teams meet stringent recovery time objectives (RTOs) for business-critical MongoDB environments.
• Point-in-time recovery (PITR) down to seconds – Recover MongoDB deployments to a precise point in time by restoring from the latest backup and replaying changes up to the selected recovery point.
• Hybrid cloud portability — Deploy and operate MongoDB wherever your business, governance, or latency needs dictate, using the same consistent NDB model.

This integration is designed to give MongoDB Enterprise Advanced users enhanced automation, speed, and resilience from their  modern data platform — while preserving full control over infrastructure, data residency, and the Ops Manager console they already know.

Engine Enhancements for SQL Server and MySQL Admins

NDB 2.10 also ships targeted improvements designed to help eliminate everyday friction for Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL users.

SQL Server IP Assignment

Explicitly define IP addresses during provisioning for the SQL Server VM, the cluster, Availability Groups (AG), and Failover Cluster Instances (FCI). Listener name and port are set right in the workflow — no post-provisioning IP reassignments or manual DNS updates required.

SQL Server Custom Drive Letters

Choose custom drive letters for data files, log files, and TempDB at provisioning time. Align with your organization’s storage policies and compliance standards, with near-zero manual reconfiguration afterward.

MySQL HA Improvements

High-availability MySQL clusters can now be provisioned directly from the NDB GUI (in addition to the existing API and CLI paths). One screen, a few clicks, and your production-ready HA topology is live — ideal for teams that prefer visual workflows.

These enhancements can remove hours of repetitive work and reduce configuration drift for database teams.

Why NDB 2.10 Matters for Your Database Estate

Whether you’re operating massive MongoDB Enterprise Advanced sharded clusters, business-critical SQL Server instances, or MySQL HA environments, NDB 2.10 delivers tighter integration, faster operations, and more granular control — all from a single heterogeneous Database-as-a-Service platform.

It’s the next step in making database lifecycle management invisible at the infrastructure layer so your teams can focus on what actually moves the business forward.

See NDB 2.10 in Action

Your database hybrid multicloud future starts here:

• Learn more about NDB and NDB for MongoDB
• Take a test drive: Experience NDB capabilities
• Deep Dive into the release details
  1. Dive into the detailed release notes: To explore how these features can benefit your organization
  2. Read our technology blog posts
     1. Onboarding MongoDB Ops Manager in Nutanix NDB
     2. MongoDB Sharded Cluster Database - Data Protection
• 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.
• Questions: Please contact your Nutanix account team.