August 2018 Sprint

In August we added

  • Collector 1.0 is now General Available (GA).   Nutanix Collector will ultimately change how Nutanix sells its products where we first collect all the pertinent customer workload data to then design the optimal solution in Sizer. 

In its first release, it takes inventory snapshots of the application VMs. In next few months it will take in time series information to get best insight.

VDI will be the first workload use case. Ultimately we will cover several different workloads, hypervisors and operating systems

  • Collector Input.   Just like uploading a RVtools output into Sizer you can upload a Collector output

  • Sizer Wiki –  This facility 🙂   This is important for the following reasons
    • All Sizer users (NTNX users and partners) get access to the information
    • It is safe as need to be a sizer user
    • Allows us to communicate updates and explain how Sizer works
  • Planned failover for Storage Calculator.  Now you can select the failover level you expect and get the storage capacity for a cluster

  • Numerous product updates across various vendors
  • Hitachi added as a vendor

 

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