Author: Rexaline Maria

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January 2023

Major highlights for January : 
Upgrade sales flow :
  • Now upgrade flow also supports HPE DX
  • You can recreate existing cluster with older DX configs (just as NX)
  • This will be a manual exercise though (like NX) but auto recreate will be coming soon
Imported workload enhancements:
Storage for powered Off VMs
  • Option to consider the storage for powered Off VMs (even if sized for only powered ON VMs)
  • This is applicable across Collector/RVTool/Insights imports
  • Checked by default but can opt-out
Retain cluster mapping
  • This will retain the source cluster and the VMs mapped to accordingly to the sizing
  • Instead of consolidating all VMs to default Cluster-1
  • Not checked by default so need to opt-in

Posted on

November 2022

Here are the latest release with the following updates on SW/Platform:
  • Snapshots: RPO frequency updates for AOS 6.5.1
  • One-hour supported for up to 136TB for hybrid nodes  plus other rule changes
  • Adding 2% buffer for max capacity restrictions
  • 15.36TB NVMe SSDs support / Storage Capacity calculator
  • Lenovo Rule: Limit CPUs with wattage <=205W
Licensing update:
  • NCI : Handling the free TiBs of Files / Objects with the NCI license (also for Legacy)
  • EUC : Handling free GBs per user for Files with per user VDI license
Usability :
  • My scenarios dashboard:  Dynamically adjustable columns
  • Makes search by name easier
  • Including shared scenario dashboard
  • Partner login:
  • Updating deal registration-based validation for partner flow
  • Allow sizing for all approved deal registration ids
  • NCP bundle:
  • Highlighting individual licenses across tiers
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October 2022

Here are the updated on two new features:
TCO in Proposals:
  • A new section on TCO in the Proposal deck
  • It has charts comparing the total cost of the solution on NX vs AWS
  • It is based on pre-build scenarios of standard sizes that is closest to the one being sized
  • For example: for a sizing of 450 VDI users, it will pick a pre-build scenario of 500 VDI users
  • It’s an optional and editable section in the proposal ,and hope it serves as a good conversation starter
  • The section also has guide on where and how to reach out to TCO team for a more detailed analysis/questions
CVM modes :
  • To address wide range of requests and different use cases, introduced two modes for allocating CVM cores
  • Regular mode: It is the current behaviour (and default option) so no changes
  • Performance mode: If selected, it doubles up the cvm cores
  • For example: for a regular VDI sizing, sizer allocates 4 cores , but if performance mode, will allocate 8 cores
  • Particularly helpful in addressing the resources required for certain configs, for example: NVMe nodes
  • NVMe nodes are used even for non-performance critical use case due to price parity with SSDs so regular allocation should be fine
  • In cases where it is used for performance , selecting the mode will ensure higher cores are provisioned
Other updates:
  • Updated HPE DX HW pricing for budgetary quotes (for DX BOM)
  • Lenovo product updates
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August 2022

Here are the major highlights listed below :
Products:
  • Proposals – includes NG8 and HPE DXG10Plus models
  • HPE DX HW BOM – pricing update for budgetary quote
  • NCM Cloud add-on in Solutions
  • NUS add-on to NCI update (can add to all tiers)
  • NC2(AWS) – heterogeneous cluster support (mixing of different server types)
  •  NVME nodes CVM update (parity with SSD node type) – regular use case
Platform:
  • NX NG8 NIC changes : support for configurable LOM(AIOM)
  • Fujitsu – additional memory configs support