Month: January 2020

January 21

Collector

• Collector or RVTools –  Can now size for just powered ON VMs or both Powered ON and OFF VMs. Was just Powered ON.
• Collector or RVTools profile can go up to 64GB RAM (was 32GB)

Usability

• Rich Text Format is now available for  Scenario Objectives. So you can bold things or underline words in the Objectives to make a key point.  This also makes it into the BOM and so a  nicer document

January 31

Products

• Complete HPE DX BOM.  Now Sizer will provide a complete BOM including chasis, power supplies, etc.  This makes it easier and reduces potential errors when quoting HPE DX models on HP’s configurator.
• Update to 8155-G7 product rules

Workloads

• Allow for 240TB per node for Objects Dedicated workloads.   Since it is Objects Dedicated workloads other applications are not allowed

 

Dec 20

Hello everyone We went live with our latest sprint today with following key items:

• Add some workload VMs to Object Dedicated clusters for free (1 VM per node)
• Storage Capacity Calculator – Added support for NVMe only models and SSD/NVMe models
• New Intel models – S2600WF0-2U1N-12 and S2600BPS-2U4N-12

Dec 9

Hi everyone.  We launched our latest sprint.

• Glad to offer Mine as backup target now
• Sizing Improvements and Processor input/Workload
  • Added Cascade Lake processors to the pull down list when you start a new workload

Usability

• Allow editing of cluster in a workload – Now you can move workloads around to different clusters without cloning a new workload and deleting old one.

General

• Add N+0/ N+1 pulldown to Extent Store Charts – UI. Now Extent Store charts and Extent Store values in the Sizing details are in sync.
• Add scenario delete operation on dashboard (list and tile view) – Can get rid of old scenarios easier than opening each and deleting them.

Product Alignment

• XC 740xd-24update/1.6TB SSD
• Add 8260M and 8280M processors for Nutanix
• DX is available to Nutanix partners
• Added more profiles for the V100 GPU with 32GB RAM

Workloads

• Now Mine is available.  In any workload you were able to direct backup to a different cluster and now Mine can be the target.  Sizer will do the sizing and include all the skus including the Nutanix skus for Veeam or HYCU software.  Unfortunately, you have to create a new opportunity in Sales Force and quote the Mine products separately from the main cluster with CBL.

Nov 25

Latest sprint went live last night, with the following changes:

• Retain fields in manual mode: In manual mode, while changing the model, quantity is retained, previously it used to get reset.. similarly, all the other fields
• CPU/Memory/SSD/HDD/NIC/GPU is retained upon changing the model type or even model if it has the same components..
• Validator updated with latest product changes/rules for 3rd party platforms..
• Platforms: Dell XC : XR2(XC Core only platform), HPE DX 560 Gen10 24SFF  available for sizing..
• NX 8170-G7 ready from Sizer end..

Nov 11

Latest sprint went live last night and includes:

• Deep Nodes for NearSync – We already made changes to extend support for hourly snapshots (1 hour RPO) for nodes with up to 64TB HDD ( for hybrid nodes) and up to 80TB SSD (all flash nodes). This was for async.  We now did that for NearSync as well.
• Correct RVTools capacity  – Collector 2.1 stores VM capacity data in GiB/MiB (and not GB/MB) both for VMware and Nutanix clusters as stored that way in Prism and VCenter.   RVTool  unfortunately states states the capacity in GB/MB even though the data VCenter is in GiB/MiB.  We now treat the capacities as GIB/MiB which is correctWorking on SAP Hana, Mine, 8170-G7 … all coming soon