• Snapshots: RPO frequency updates for AOS 6.5.1

• One-hour supported for up to 136TB for hybrid nodes  plus other rule changes
• Adding 2% buffer for max capacity restrictions

• 15.36TB NVMe SSDs support / Storage Capacity calculator
• Lenovo Rule: Limit CPUs with wattage <=205W

• NCI : Handling the free TiBs of Files / Objects with the NCI license (also for Legacy)
• EUC : Handling free GBs per user for Files with per user VDI license

• My scenarios dashboard:  Dynamically adjustable columns

• Makes search by name easier
• Including shared scenario dashboard

• Partner login:

• Updating deal registration-based validation for partner flow
• Allow sizing for all approved deal registration ids

• NCP bundle:

• Highlighting individual licenses across tiers

• A new section on TCO in the Proposal deck
• It has charts comparing the total cost of the solution on NX vs AWS
• It is based on pre-build scenarios of standard sizes that is closest to the one being sized
• For example: for a sizing of 450 VDI users, it will pick a pre-build scenario of 500 VDI users
• It’s an optional and editable section in the proposal ,and hope it serves as a good conversation starter
• The section also has guide on where and how to reach out to TCO team for a more detailed analysis/questions

• To address wide range of requests and different use cases, introduced two modes for allocating CVM cores
• Regular mode: It is the current behaviour (and default option) so no changes
• Performance mode: If selected, it doubles up the cvm cores
• For example: for a regular VDI sizing, sizer allocates 4 cores , but if performance mode, will allocate 8 cores
• Particularly helpful in addressing the resources required for certain configs, for example: NVMe nodes

• NVMe nodes are used even for non-performance critical use case due to price parity with SSDs so regular allocation should be fine

• In cases where it is used for performance , selecting the mode will ensure higher cores are provisioned

• Updated HPE DX HW pricing for budgetary quotes (for DX BOM)
• Lenovo product updates

• Proposals – includes NG8 and HPE DXG10Plus models
• HPE DX HW BOM – pricing update for budgetary quote
• NCM Cloud add-on in Solutions
• NUS add-on to NCI update (can add to all tiers)
• NC2(AWS) – heterogeneous cluster support (mixing of different server types)
•  NVME nodes CVM update (parity with SSD node type) – regular use case

• NX NG8 NIC changes : support for configurable LOM(AIOM)
• Fujitsu – additional memory configs support

Sizer went live with current sprint with below major updates :

• Proposals for Portfolio 2.0:

  • Updated SW license section with Portfolio 2.0 structure
  • A slide on HW support and Cloud services

• Cluster rules update

  • Restrictions around mixing different node types
  • For ex: Hybrid + NVMe nodes not supported
  • Handling unbalanced memory qty for IceLake
  • Allowing single socket for storage heavy nodes

• Reference scenarios : Reworked on NX-G8 (was on G7 earlier)

• Support for Frame licenses with Portfolio 2.0 flow

• Platforms

  • GPU related rules for Fujitsu
  • New vendor- OVH Cloud

Sizer went live with the sprint and some important features to start the year :

Upgrades quoting:

• Now quoting for upgrades scenarios is possible and the quote button for upgrade flow is enabled.
• The nodes are marked as existing or new by sizer (or can also be done manually) and can generate FL quotes for the newly added nodes
• More on Upgrades is coming with Insights integration soon !!

Performance :

• This is a big one and we all should see a significant performance improvement and sizing speed while coming up with the node recommendation.
• Depending on the complexity and size of the workload, over 70% improvement in performance has been observed on an average compared to earlier.
• A change in the technical implementation of sizing mechanism is driving bulk of the improvements.

Reference scenarios:

• Sizer has come up with a concept of Reference scenarios (a tab called ‘reference scenario’ on the dashboard screen).
• These are pre-sized scenarios by experts across workloads (For ex: Files 50TB,250 users, 250TB, 750 users , VDI 300/500 mixed user types etc)
• These reference scenarios serve as a guide/reference purpose only for a similar workload requirement (and not encouraged to clone as is)
• The feature has been widely successful with one of the partners (cdw) and now opening up for everyone

Others:

• Proposals has been updated with the latest Q1 financials/Gartner’s slides and newly added G8 models
• Default input processor set to Gold 5220 for VDI/VDA workloads for matching the real time(lab) performance numbers
• Platforms that went live:

•  NX-1175S-G8
• Dell XC ICX or 15G Phase 2 Platforms
• A30/A100/A16 GPU cards and related vGPU profiles for VDI/VDA

• Storage filter: Added separate filters for All NVMe and NVMe+SSD storage options
• Sizer to consider onboard(LOM) NICs along with external ones

• Profile info: Mx RAM up from 1024 GiB to 2048 GiB

• Optimizing the FSVM resource requirements

• Support for latest version 4.1.4

• Updated with latest HW specs and images for G8 models

• Changes to the dials and the legends(Red, Green dots at the bottom)

• AMD Milan : HPE DX Gen10 Plus v2 models [DX325 & DX385] – manual mode
• Lenovo: IceLake models- HXxx31 , AMD Milan model- HX3376 10SFF
• HPE DX- New GPU rules
• NX: New platforms: NX-8035-G8

October 1st sprint: 

• Added VMWare Horizon Apps support
• Updated numbers with latest OS support (Windows 2019)
• Updated profile info (based on User Type by VDI broker)

• 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

• 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:

• Server Virtualization
• Cluster(Raw) sizing
• SQL DB (non business critical)

Sept 1st sprint: 

• Upto 80 cores (dual socket), up from 56 cores in the G7
• Upto 4TB of RAM, up from 3TB in G7
• Upto 184.32 TB of flash capacity

• Upto 64 cores (dual socket), up from 56 cores in the G7
• Upto 2TB of RAM
• Upto 10x 7.68 TB NVMe

• Available for end to end sizing and FL quoting
• NX-1065-G8 on the lower end with more core/cpu options
• NX-3060-G8 and NX-3070-G8 with All flash/NVMe builds
• NX-8055-G8 on the higher end with both Hybrid and All Flash(including NVMe)
• NX-3055G-G8 with the GPUs
• The larger All Flash systems NX-8150-G8 and NX-8170-G8 to follow in few weeks
• Both G7 and G8 would be available for now (and either would come up in recommendations based on workload)

• CVM cores – accounting for physical cores going forward and translating into specInt adjusted cores for the sizing stats
• Solution option – added Prism Ultimate option (both core and node based licensing)