We now have two sprints a month

Second sprint released April 29

Key enhancements

• Allow Disabling workloads in scenario.

Bet you like to see the effect an extra workload has on your sizing.?  Betting you do that multiple times when you work with Sizer?  Well now you can disable a  workload and it is like it has been deleted.  Flip the switch and voila it is back.

The use for this feature is tremendous.  Certainly to add a workload and see impact.  Coupled with ability to clone and edit workload and then could have a couple levels (say small and large).  Then toggle each one to be disabled and see the impact the difference in workloads make.

We took care in how we handle disable workloads as follows

o    You get a warning on top that one or more workloads are disabled so you don’t forget.

o    Since the sizing is based on just enabled workloads the BOM, budgetary quotes and quotes are based on what is enabled

o    You can clone the scenario and the current state of enabled/disabled workloads are preserved in the new scenario.  So can have multiple scenarios from there with some enabled and other disabled

• Capacity growth for Files – this is important as File capacity is always growing and now can size for up to next 5 years

Collector and Tools

• Warn you if too few of VMs can’t be sized (eg. Many are powered OFF). This is to inform you that the sizing could be undersized given the data
• SpecInt core adjustment for Collector import
• Default selections for VDI workloads by Collector Import (Also enable Files by default)
• RVTools 3.11 Import support

Miscellaneous

• Updated Calm as no longer offers a free 25VM pack
• Product updates for NX, SW only vendors, and Dell XC
• Validator Product Updates
• Failover Capacity Indicator improvements for ECX and Block Awareness enabled scenarios
• Oracle: Node allocation to DB VMs
• Automatic Sizing with CBL improvements for Standalone cluster sizing

First Sprint released April 16

Key Enhancements

• Auto Sizing with CBL – We take into account the CBL license cost in our Auto Sizing which is key as most value is now in the licenses.  We also moved to List Price Sizing for NX hardware  instead of COGS
• Manual Sizing Warnings based on Failover indicators. We leverage the new N+0 warnings in our UI but also BOM, Budgetary quote, Quote
• 120TB Cold Storage support for 5.11. Models will be coming that support this but we are ready
• Two node ROBO sizing for Files for N+1 failover. This is great for lower end file server market
• Add Files/Buckets SKUs for quotes for non-decoupled accounts – So now can have a Files or Buckets license with an appliance sale.
• ROBO VM Limit changes – PM did update the limits and so now:  no limits on cores, 32GB RAM per VM, 2 TiB of combined HDD/SSD storage per VM, and 50 TiB total HDD/SSD storage per cluster

Miscellaneous

• Default NIC Selection for ALB/Non-ALB Countries (Auto Sizing). We take care of this nuisance where have to have the right NIC SKU for Arab League and non Arab League countries.  We look at the country for the Account you are sizing for.
• Oracle Workload only in dedicated clusters. This is best practice given Oracle charges for all cores on nodes with Oracle.
• Require an external NIC card for Bucket workloads
• New UX Implementation for allowing decoupled quote for non-decoupled accounts – We want to make easier to sell a CBL deal to non-decoupled accounts