We launched our second sprint for May and it is a BIG one
Key Enhancements
Super Auto Automatic goes through all the options and finds the optimal sizing. Often SEs will say Auto is a good start but I want play with it. Increase or decrease nodes and see impact of dials. Increase/decrease Cores, RAM, etc and again see that impact.
Well now we have Super Auto where right in where you see the recommendation and the dials you can make those changes and get the update for the dials. Better yet you see % change in cost vs optimal. Manual is still there but now you can do a lot more in Automatic sizing.
Here is info and snapshots
https://sizer.nutanix.com/#/help/articles/592
Proposals We had the sizer screen shots for a few months now, but we worked with the Field Enablement team and Product Marketing to deliver the latest in corporate overview and product/ solution benefits. Don’t have to hunt around for the latest. Do your work in Sizer and the latest PowerPoint is available under Download Proposals. We see this evolving but you can be assured you got the latest.
Oracle updates Oracle often is used in larger Enterprise applications and they charge for all cores in a node running Oracle. Given that we now require high speed processors (greater than or equal to 60 spec ints which is about 3Ghz) but do allow a VM to cross sockets in a node. This way you can have a large Oracle VM and know it will be fulfilled with a high speed cpu with fewer cores to give you a higher end system and lower Oracle license costs.
Miscellaneous
- Heterogeneous cluster support for N+1 in Storage Calculator. We had been taking one node off the first model defined and now we take it off the largest node in the cluster.
- Appliances can have addons like Prism Pro, Flow, Calm. This was for decoupled nodes in the past
First sprint for May
Key Enhancements
Backup Sizing. Now all workloads for Nutanix sizings can have backups in a separate backup cluster. You can define the backup policy and target either Files Pro or Buckets Pro. The intent is that the backups are in the backup cluster managed by 3rd party backup software. Sizer sized for the backups, included either Files PRO or Buckets Pro, and allocated space for the backup software. In near future, there will be dedicated Backup hardware that can be used in the backup cluster instead of Files PRO or Buckets Pro. Here is the details
https://sizer.nutanix.com/#/help/articles/585
Miscellaneous
- Compression is now allowed for Starter license
- Buckets can have RF3.
- Robo VM can now have more than 2 TiB of storage
Collector and Tools
- VDI workloads created by Collector are now better fine-tuned to meet different usage levels (edited)