Author: Walt O'Maley

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Dashboard

What are key things to know about dashboard?

 

 

The top bar allows you to

  • Create a new scenario (upper left)
  • Search for a scenario
  • Logout (upper right)

You can view My Scenarios (ones you create and thus own) or Shared Scenarios (ones shared by other users).

Shared scenarios are ones shared with you by other users

Each tile shows a summary of a sizing in terms of owner, workloads, etc.  Customer and opportunity requires SFDC login.

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Search

Search for a scenario

How do you find a scenario if you got 500 of them?  In a word … Search .  However there is a panel.  There are two options

With the scenario search, just start typing and should see name of scenario

 

 

 

 

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Upload BOM to SFDC

A user can upload BOM directly from Sizer to Salesforce  by clicking “Push BOM to Salesforce” button on the scenario. To create a Generate Quote from Sizer make sure that Sizing has been completed (workloads must be added to the Scenario to enable “Push BOM to Salesforce).

Required User Permissions: Salesforce Login

Steps:

  1. Go to Scenario and click on next to the scenario name.
  2. Click on “Push BOM to Salesforce” action.
  3. Enter Scenario objectives (you won’t see this step if scenario objectives have already been added).
  4. On the“Push BOM to Salesforce” modal, select opportunity name to which BOM will be pushed.
  5. Click on “Push BOM”.

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Salesforce Quote

Salesforce Quotes can be generated from Sizer by clicking “Generate Salesforce Quote” button on the scenario.

Required User Permissions

  • Salesforce Login

To create a Salesforce Quote from Sizer make sure that:

  • A valid and unexpired opportunity exists in Salesforce.com
  • A valid and active Pricebook is associated with the Opportunity in Salesforce.com
  • Sizing has been completed: workloads must be added to the Scenario to enable “Generate Salesforce Quote” button.

Steps:

  1. Go to Scenario and click on next to the scenario name.
  2. Click on “Generate Salesforce Quote” action.
  3. On the “Generate Salesforce Quote” modal, an account should already be pre populated. If you linked opportunity to the scenario while creating the scenario, opportunity and pricebook (if one linked to opportunity in salesforce) should also be pre populated, otherwise please search or enter Opportunity name or ID in the Opportunity textbox. Selecting the Opportunity will populate the pricebook.
  4. Entering the opportunity will enable the “Generate” button if it wasn’t enabled.
  5. You also get the opportunity to review the Financial Assumptions section on this modal.
  6. Click on Generate.

 

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Financial Analysis

In addition to cost comparison of owning legacy and Nutanix products over the next 5 years, Financial Analysis section also shows the estimated savings one can realize by opting for Nutanix Products.

To view Financial Analysis section:

  1. Open a scenario and scroll down on the right section of the page until see you see “Sizing details” selected in the dropdown.
  2. Change the dropdown value to Financial Analysis.

Note: Make sure that on the right section, “All clusters” have been selected in the “Summary For” dropdown.

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August 2018 Sprint

In August we added

  • Collector 1.0 is now General Available (GA).   Nutanix Collector will ultimately change how Nutanix sells its products where we first collect all the pertinent customer workload data to then design the optimal solution in Sizer. 

In its first release, it takes inventory snapshots of the application VMs. In next few months it will take in time series information to get best insight.

VDI will be the first workload use case. Ultimately we will cover several different workloads, hypervisors and operating systems

  • Collector Input.   Just like uploading a RVtools output into Sizer you can upload a Collector output

  • Sizer Wiki –  This facility 🙂   This is important for the following reasons
    • All Sizer users (NTNX users and partners) get access to the information
    • It is safe as need to be a sizer user
    • Allows us to communicate updates and explain how Sizer works
  • Planned failover for Storage Calculator.  Now you can select the failover level you expect and get the storage capacity for a cluster

  • Numerous product updates across various vendors
  • Hitachi added as a vendor

 

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July 2018 Sprint

hi everyone

A few presents from the Sizer team before SKO. This is our July sprint

– NEC Vendor addition

– Common panel to define license, support and discounts. Just above the workloads on the left. This is where you apply these things for quotes, BOM, financial analysis

– Discounts support in Budgetary quotes – Now can apply discounts in in budgetary quotes. So you can see net price !!!

– Multiple nodes support in Storage capacity calculator – Hey if one node is cool why not more!

– License and Support SKUs support in BOM – we are getting it to be more complete

– Extent Store View in a scenario – We are trying to give you every chart known to mankind .. well at least storage people. Extent store is reported in sizing details and now a nice chart

– Replacing License/Support configuration in quote modals with data from financial assumptions

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June 2018 Sprint

Key things added

  • Unbalanced DIMM skylake update. Skylake is different than Broadwell for unbalanced dimms. With broadwell it was just dimm count. With skylake it is dimm count at times, but at times it also depends on how dimms are laid out on the motherboard. Finally the memory bandwidth can effect things too. At any rate we made big update here and Sizer takes all that into account.
  • Storage Calculator updates. From user feedback we streamlined some things. For example the extent store is adjusted by the RF factor you set. So you see the combined storage but also breakout for ssd and hdd. We did add newer drives like the 10TB hdd
  • Budgetary quote – now has license and support
  • We re-enabled license and support with SFDC quotes. This was hard work in that we had a swat team that came up with lot of test cases and just kept ironing out issues.
    • Why you should care as an SE. Now go ahead and create the quote within sizer and then either you or your rep can deal with discounts and approvals in SFDC. The benefit is the quote lines are created properly. Both a labor savings and less errors

 

Here is more info on unbalanced dimms

Good news right now no model has the expensive 50% hit

Skylake processors is more complex compared to Broadwell in terms of whether a system has unbalanced dimms

We now test for the following

  • CPU – skylake
  • Model – Balanced_Motherboard – true (described below)
  • Memory bandwidth – go with slower figure for either memory or CPU. If 2133 Mhz then -10% memory adjustment. If 2400Mhz or 2666Mhz (most common with skylake models) we take a 0% adjustment

Like before, we find the DIMM count per socket. There is typically 2 sockets (cpu’s) but can be 1 and starting to introduce 4 socket models

Using the quantity of DIMMs per socket we should apply following rules

If CPU is skylake

  • If dimm count per socket is 5,7,9,10,11 then the model is considered unbalanced and we need to take a -50% memory adjustment
  • if dimm count per socket is 2,3,4, or 12 it is balanced and memory adjustment = 0%
  • if model is balanced and DIMM count per socket is 6 or 8 then it is balanced and memory adjustment = 0%
  • if model is unbalanced and DIMM count per socket is 6 or 8 then it is unbalanced and memory adjustment = -50%