October 1st sprint:
We went live with the current sprint with some major enhancements around XenApp and Bulk Edit for Data Protection which were eagerly awaited.. : )Virtual Apps and Desktops (earlier called XenApp in sizer)
- Added VMWare Horizon Apps support
- Updated numbers with latest OS support (Windows 2019)
- Updated profile info (based on User Type by VDI broker)
Bulk Edit : Data Protection
- Now Bulk edit also supported for Data Protection
- Both Local and Remote snapshots/DR allowed for bulk edit
- All VMs being edited for DP need to be part of the same cluster
Other changes:
- Rack Awareness – user specified rack count
- Helps to spread the nodes across multiple racks if power limitation/rack at site
- Lenovo HW(HX) quoting from Sizer/FrontLine now available for all regions(worldwide)
- HPE DX Ice Lake platforms: DX380 Gen10 Plus 8SFF & DX380 Gen10 Plus 24SFF (in manual mode for now )
October 2nd sprint:
We did go live with new sprint for Sizer today. Big thing is Sizer now supports RF1 since AOS 6.0 supports RF1. RF1 fits best in certain situations where the data resiliency of RF2 is not critical. We allow it for certain workloads as an option
- Server Virtualization
- Cluster(Raw) sizing
- SQL DB (non business critical)
The following tooltip is worth noting as RF1 should be used with cautionSelect RF1 only if the application is SAAS Analytics or Hadoop, RF1 is used when workload does not require data resiliency or the data resiliency is handled at application level and currently supported for SAS Analytics or Hadoop.
Other enhancements:
File Services : There is an optimisation to the Files sizing which leads to fewer cores required. The FSVM is optimized to account for the the resources across all the FSVM(minimum 3) to meet the cores requirement and choose the FSVM profile accordingly. For smaller deployments, this becomes efficient as the FSVM size would not only depend based on 1 but a minimum 3 VMs to meet the resource consumption.
Platform Alignment
DX new GPU rules
Remove rule around 128GB DIMM & L CPU
HPE-DX IceLake platform DX360-Gen10Plus-10NVMe – Phase 2a
New platforms – NX-1175S-G8 & NX-8035-G8
DX new GPU rules
Remove rule around 128GB DIMM & L CPU
HPE-DX IceLake platform DX360-Gen10Plus-10NVMe – Phase 2a
New platforms – NX-1175S-G8 & NX-8035-G8