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March 2018 Sprint

hi gang

We went live with our March sprint. We were scheduled for last Thursday but with all the product model changes more testing was needed

The big things

1. Designbrewz changes. Designbrewz and Sizer are similar in that they both deal with storage capacity but ask a different question. For Designbrewz it is what is the effective capacity for some many nodes and you define number of hdds and ssds in a node. Nothing about workloads or snapshots. Well Sizer is all about workloads and so it tells you what is available given the customer requirements. So we broke this out into two parts

– Storage calculator – Here it is a designbrewz calculator where you enter nodes and what is in a node and you get the effective capacity. We introduced that a month ago

– Sizing Charts – This is now a 1:1 mapping of all the detail in Sizing Details but in nice chart form.

No more 3rd order differential equations or requirement that you have a Phd in Mathmatics to understand the chart. Just kidding but common question for sure.

Attached is doc with picture

2. More sophisticated Auto Controls From user feedback we provided additional controls with Automatic sizing.

– Threshold adjustment. If you want more headroom for a given resource can use slider to assure you have more. For example dial down CPU from 95% to 85% if want more headroom. Your solution may be under that anyhow but this would assure that is the case

– Hybrid storage. We have All Flash option for long time and so added this as well. This forces a hybrid

– Maximum budget. Here put in list price for hardware and you can be assured the price won’t exceed that. We went with list price for hardware as then we can offer this feature cross all the vendors which is important when you clone the scenario. We don’t have discounts or support for example for non-Nutanix vendors.
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3. Async and NearSync. We made a big update for Async DR. Now you can have a local policy and a separate yet different remote policy. We also introduced NearSync so you can have 1 min snapshots

4. Numerous product updates for all vendors

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February 2018 Sprint

hi everyone

We posted our February sprint last night

This sprint we did a lot of development for the future. We are enhancing automatic sizing options and enhancing our product data models to allow for lot of product component options from multiple vendors. This is work for the near term future

What we delivered in February is important though:

1. Storage calculator like Designbrewz. Later we will replace what is in Designbrewz.com itself

2. Block Awareness. So for any workload you can have block awareness and we will put the nodes in separate blocks

Attached a couple graphics on the calculator

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January 2018 Sprint

Hi everyone

We just posted January sprint and this is a HUGE sprint in terms of features you will love

1. First and foremost you can now clone a scenario and apply it to a different vendor. This is HUGE feature for SW only business model. Do all your hard work capturing the customer requirements in one vendor. Then you can clone that and apply to any other vendor in less than a minute. So easy to compare different vendor recommendations. Full notes in the FAQ

2. Cluster level filters. Our sizings are getting more complex. Though Sizer has supported multiple clusters for long time, most did not use it. With DR it is more common and other use cases. So now can look at All Clusters or pull in pull down just select what you want and then the Sizing details, dials, DesignBrewz, and Rack View show just that cluster.

3. List view in dashboard. Now instead of tiles you can have a list view

4. Updated VDI and RDSH/XenApp for various Windows versions and Office versions

5. We make core adjustment for Skylake memory

6. Added Fujitsu as OEM

7. Dell XC – added XC640-4 and added SED, GPU to various models

8. Product updates for Lenovo

9. Product updates for Nutanix

10. Product updates for HP, Cisco, Dell PowerEdge