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