July 27
Hope all is going well. We did go live with a sprint last night. Some cool things
- HPE DX BOM – support SKUs and structure
- XenApp / RDSH profile edit
- Era VCPU configurable license sku
Some very cool things
- customize the thresholds used in manaual and auto sizing
- much better summary of the sizing details. Now we show the capacity, any savings and then in red the consumption items
July 13
Hi everyone, we went live with the current sprint, below are the major highlights
Sizing Improvements:
- Splunk Smartstore : The new Splunk Smartstore , which decouples compute and storage is now supported in Sizer. Sizer recommends a compute cluster and a storage(object) cluster respectively for indexer and cold/frozen data.
- RVTool host info in sizing : Bringing parity with Collector, Sizer reads RVTool host information for the VMs and factors in sizing. The existing server’s CPU is normalized against the baseline.
- ERA platforms – it went live mid sprint, now you can you can select Era Platform licensing, Sizer generates Era platform licenses for the total cores in the database workload cluster, including the child/accounting SKUs.
Usability:
- HPE DX BOM, Transceivers: As a continuation of the exercise to provide complete BOM for HPE DX, now Sizer would also recommend the appropriate type and quantity of transceivers to go with the selected NIC, depending on NIC type and no of ports. Sizer already recommends the required PSUs, GPU cables, Chassis etc as part of the complete BOM initiative.
- Storage efficiency slider: Similar to the workloads section, the storage efficiency in Storage capacity calculator and Extent Store charts has a slider to chose from a range of values.
- HPE Arrow models[BTO configs]: This went out mid sprint. Enabling HPE Arrow models for SFDC/Internal users.
Platforms:
- Dell XC: Dell XC is the second vendor to go out with AMD models. XC6515 AMD (XC Core only) is now live in Sizer (under AMD option in settings).
- Regular platform updates across NX and OEMs keeping up to date with the config changes in product meta.
July 6
hi everyone
We delivered a few things in mid-sprint last night- Era platform licensing is nowin Sizer for Oracle or SQL. So you can specify Era Platform licensing and then the cluster the database workload is in uses that licensing which is total cores in the cluster.- All Nutanix users have access to the Arrow models for HP DX scenarios- RV Tools support – Sizer will pick up the host info and SPECint numbers for each host from the RVtools spreadsheet. This is already supported in Collector and can help get more sizing precision.