Aug 26
We just went live with the current sprint.. and excited to share that we went live with Sizer Basic!!
A quick introduction to Sizer Basic:
This flavor of Sizer is aimed at slightly different set of users/persona for ex: sales rep, AMs, and customers.. and thus designed to reduce friction and time spent between gathering workload requirements to solution to quote.. idea is to drive volume sales… asking few workload related questions., filling in the defaults around cluster properties/settings thus avoiding the complexity for the user… and come up with a solution rather quickly. Currently, Basic Includes all major workloads which have highest sizing momentum, and covers all platforms. One major highlight of Basic is the In built self-help capability- illustrations, guided tour, context based help panel , triggers – all of which educates the first time or repeat users about the tool, its workflow and also on the specifics of sizing. Also to note that Sizer Basic is role based access so only for users who are assigned Basic role. Existing users continue on current Sizer (and would see Advanced/Basic tags).
Here’s a detailed 45 minute demo video on Sizer Basic:
https://nutanix.zoom.us/rec/share/4s5kDZPexkRLb4HGyGaYU79mAaK_eaa81yUY8_YJxBtyFKu2rdfJ38WGdBrB8ePtOther changes as part of the sprint includes:
- Support for sync rep (for metro availability)
Now you can choose synchronous replication in Sizer and it comes out with a primary and a secondary cluster. Somewhat similar to the DR cluster but not including the additional snapshots
- Async/Near sync enhancements
Changes related to the async/near sync for 5.17 such as moving the limits for hourly snapshots from 80TB to 92TB for all flash and the related config rules..
- Sizing stats table
Usable remaining capacity row added to the sizing stats, gives the details on resources available in the cluster after workload requirements are met. The numbers are adjusted for RF.
- Platforms – AMD / HPE DX
HPE DX came out with support for the AMD platform – HPE DX385. The platform is listed and can be selected for sizing by choosing AMD under auto settings. Sizer’s default is Intel processor based models.
Hi everyone
Wanted to provide some color on why Sizer Basic and what we will do in future for full Sizer
Sizer Basic – As a company we are covering a very wide range of use cases and scale. However, about 45% of all scenarios were in the top workloads like VDI, Files, Server Virtualization, etc and stayed with the defaults. Well that gives us an opportunity to have Basic with these defaults and let many more people do either the initial sizing or just go with the defaults. Two benefits. First, enter collaborative sales. We have about 700 customer users of full Sizer now and it has been quite successful. Often they do sizings and then share those with their SE. Basic will allow us to get Sizer out to many more customers and continue with this trend. Second benefit is SE can focus more on the complex sizings. I would envision often the initial sizing is done in Basic and then they can share the sizing with you for enhancements. So with Basic you have more opportunity to collaborate.
Sizer Advanced – With the introduction of Basic we are working on Advanced. Here we know it is a SE or advanced user and we plan to add a lot more dials and options to allow you create awesome complex multi-cluster solutions. We will still offer this to customers as we offer Sizer today but does require SE support. Stay tuned
Aug 11
What the heck a double here day!! .Well this is big as this will be a game changer in how you sell. There was a SE team that got created to work with me to finally get a GREAT proposal out of Sizer. So now you can do all your edits and get to final sizing and Sizer will automatically create a super presentation complete with the Sizing dials in ppt, pictures of all the hardware, corporate overview, slides for any product you selected. A real proposal created by real SEs.Easy to do
- Go Create Proposals
- Any product in the sizing is automatically added but you get a nice selection panel for any products you want to include. Might notice this looks like Frontline. (we are all the same team and like this UI).
3. Takes some time but you get a zip and open it up and you get slides CUSTOMIZED for your presentation.Why is this important. Well for enterprise SEs you often create lots of sizings and so each has a presentation. For commercial SEs you may find your time is so limited that now you can present a good presentation to the customer. Also assured this is all current. What we found is SEs wasted lot of time creating ppts and everyone had their own version.
Let me give a sample of what this does for you First every cluster has its own slide with the configuration summary and the dials. Working with the SEs they often would want to show N+1 and N+0 levels (what the customer should expect in an upgrade for example). Affectionately this was called the Justin slide as this is what Justin Bell presents and everyone said YES. Also we show all the hardware pics too
hi everyone
Welcome to new Fiscal Year and hope everyone had good break. Sizer team is coming out with a big bang with the new sprint launched todaySizing
- HPE DX Mine support and we have HP DX Mine appliance in Sizer
- Improvements in Splunk Smartstore
Usability
- Bulk edits. So you got a bunch of workloads and you say darn I need to change the compression, or RF level, or ECX, etc. In old days had to go in one by one and change the workloads and now you can make bulk edits !! Still can go in one by one if that is your part of you Zen practice.
- Extent Store chart. There has been a lot of confusion with all our charts on the storage that is available. Heck I get confused. We did some cleanup in the Sizing details already and now you see a nice interactive panel below those details to get to extent store (raw less cvm) and effective capacity (extent store with storage efficiences). On left you can play with RF, compression, N+1, ECX and in real time get update on right. Don’t like that complex TiB stuff got a switch for you to go to TB
