January Sprint 1
Key enhancements
- We heard from field and partners that getting either budgetary quotes or getting real quotes created is well hard (I can’t repeat what we heard in interviews as I want to keep the channel G rated ). Partners were saying it can take a week to get either budgetary quote or real quote going. Distributors were saying we retype what is in the Sizer BOM to create a quote. Nutanix SE’s saying this is really hard with CBL.
We knew we can help and so we took it on big time in last three months and now in summary we can say a partner or NTNX field person can create either a budgetary or real quote for any business model be it appliance, disagregated Nutanix, XC Core, CBL SW sale . Attached is the matrix with details. I believe this is about improving sales velocity.
- We now have the new File licenses going with Standalone cluster. So here for Files Pro you can create the Files cluster with IONLY the Files skus attached (no AOS licenses). More changes coming but big step
- Data Center and ROBO Solutions. These are addons for your HCI recommendation where we add right amount of things like Prism Pro or Flow.
Product Updates
- We always pull the latest from SFDC for Nutanix products
- Implemented several Nutanix product rules like allowed CPUs for 3070 if GPU is desired.
- We always pull the latest from HCL for SW only vendors
January Sprint 2
Key enhancements
- Include ECX in auto sizing. We always took in the savings after the recommendation was determined and so the HDD utilization was accurate. We hadn’t taken that into account though in determining the recommendation. Now that we have really large workloads for Files and soon Buckets this became an issue. So now Sizer recommendation is accurate
- Clone Workload Feature. This is cool. Define a workload and can clone it and then just modify what you want. For example, you want five different Server Virtualization workloads that are all similar but different. Define one and clone/edit the rest.
- Thick VMs sizing logic improved when uploading Collector or RVTools outputs. Now no compression is taken. A subtle but important Sizing improvement
UX improvements
- Budgetary Quote – Added Hardware Support quote line
- Making List view as default dashboard view instead of grid.
- Implement Open/Closed Opportunity Filter – UX
Product Updates
- New model – Fujitsu XF8050 HY/AF
- HPE are DL380/360 again instead of DX . There was a problem with HCL but addressed it
- We always pull the latest from SFDC for Nutanix products
- Implemented several Nutanix product rules like allowed CPUs for 3070 if GPU is desired.
- We always pull the latest from HCL for SW only vendors
Coming soon
- Buckets !! Should come out this week. I’ll announce it later but you can start thinking about Buckets by sizing different opportunities