We have greatly enhanced our Automatic Sizing. Auto goes through all the possible options (an option is a model with specific component combination) and finds the optimal solution (lowest net cost)
Certainly good to know and often is the best solution. We find users want to “play” with the recommendation like
- Increasing and decreasing nodes to see impact on the utilization dials. Auto provides N+1 or N+2 but good to see impact of losing a node for example
- Would a faster processor or more RAM help a compute intense workload mix?
- How about impact of changing storage options?
In old days you had to go to Manual, make a change, hit apply and then see the impact. If you want to play with say 10 different changes that is a LOT of effort
Now we have Super Auto !!!
Here is an Automatic Sizing and you see there is 6 nodes. The one thing that is new is you see the Customize link. Click on this and you will enter that Super Auto Zone
Here is Super Auto
Key things
- You now have + and – buttons to increment and decrement the nodes and the resources. In regards to resources
- Cores – You increment or decrement with more or less overall specint. We go through the product structure for that model
- RAM, HDD, SSD – You increment or decrement with more or less capacity. We go through the product structure for that model
- Whenever you click a new sizing is done with that change in either the model or the node count. The dials are updated
- You see a cost delta vs optimal. So you don’t have to go to Budgetary quote to realize relative cost change. Here we added a node and it increased the expected net price by 15%. It is approximate. We have budgetary quote to get a better number
- You see at the top, Sizer tells you it is now customized. That will be recorded in the BOM too
- Restore to Auto. Here can just have Sizer go back to optimal.
- Done. Have fun clicking things and in the end can go with it
What about the product details when I make changes?
Product component descriptions and quantities are too long to put in the UI by the buttons. So we have you increment or decrement and you see the overall capacity (e.g. increase or decrease HDD). However at any time you can look at the model description ( the i by the model) and get all that info
