Nutanix NCP-DB case studies
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The Nutanix Certified Professional – Database Automation (NCP-DB) is a professional-level credential for people who operate Nutanix Database Service (NDB, formerly Era) as a database-as-a-service platform. It suits database administrators moving from hand-built servers to automated provisioning, platform engineers who own the NDB control plane, and virtualization or cloud infrastructure staff who support database workloads on Nutanix AHV or other hypervisors. The Nutanix NCP-DB case studies are 5 cases and about 2,809 words.
1Control-Plane Maintenance on a Shared NDB Server
An enterprise runs NDB 2.x on a six-node AHV cluster. The NDB server VM is hosted on node C and manages 120 database VMs, mostly PostgreSQL and MySQL.
581 words, about 3 min2Clone Capacity Wall in a Shared Dev Cluster
A platform team uses one NDB deployment to manage production and development. Production runs a 1.2 TB PostgreSQL 14 database on a three-node AHV cluster; its time machine takes a snapshot every 4 hours and retains snapshots for 30 days.
588 words, about 3 min3Minor Version Patch Halt Across a PostgreSQL Fleet
A DBA team manages 30 PostgreSQL 13.7 databases with NDB. They create a new software profile for PostgreSQL 13.10 and start a patch job against all 30 VMs in one batch during a six-hour maintenance window.
588 words, about 3 min4Point-in-Time Restore With a Log Backup Gap
A SQL Server 2019 database is protected by NDB with a time machine. The SLA takes a full snapshot every six hours and transaction-log backups every 15 minutes, with seven-day retention.
516 words, about 3 min5RBAC for Shared NDB With Contractors and Cross-Project Cloning
A shared NDB deployment supports three teams: production DBAs, application developers, and analytics. All 45 users are currently members of the NDB Admin role because the platform was built quickly.
536 words, about 3 min