Month: May 2020

April 27

Hi everyone

Hope all is well at end of quarter. We did release a new sprint with some nice enhancements-

• Mine can now have Objects as it archive. So you can put a lot of the archive data on cheaper storage. Screenshot below. You can adjust the mix of how much to put on Mine vs Objects
• AMD sizing is ready … well whenever we have AMD models. Ratan worked through lot of narly stuff to get this ready and wanted to plug his efforts and good that Sizer is ready
• NX – 12 cores rule for 12TB HDDs are there
• DX – added the gpu cables and the Trusted Platform Module (TPM to the BOM).  We are pretty complete on offering full BOM for DX now
• VERY COOL department…
  • Go to a workload and scroll down and you will see on your left a menu with the sections that scroll with you (attached). Sizer in last couple years has way more stuff in a workload and so resulted in lot of scrolling, but now we made it easy to go all round
  • Manual sizing UI is nicer now too

April 13

• New edit/add workload page –  We want to introduce new functionality as we develop Sizer Basic and Advanced. We are now offering our new workload page. It is easier to select what you want. Hope you like it and describe it below·
• N+1 yellow indicator. When we do an auto sizing or you do a manual sizing we let you know if the resiliency is N+0, N+1., or N+2.  Most people shoot for N+1. What we do is under the covers is remove a node and go through all the sizing rules and equations and make sure indeed it is less than the N+0 threshold (for example for CPU that is 95%). That is all good but you can be close and so we wanted to let you know. Using the CPU example if within 5% of the n+0 threshold we keep it N+1 as technically it is but turn it yellow.  Given sizing is lot of estimates it is best to have some margin for error and let you all know your close to the edge.·
• Migration for VDI Display protocol –  Display Protocol was added recently as an input for VDI sizing. The VDI gurus felt it was needed going forward. It is very expensive though adding 40 to 45% on cores. While this is valid sizing this could break any old sizings. So in older sizings it will default to None·
• Mine licenses updated

April 6

GREAT NEWS

We have Frame for AHV live in Sizer

As mentioned in the town hall,  EUC and in particular Frame for AHV is a hot market in extremely difficult times.  We were working on it but pulled it in.    We always want Sizer to enable you guys to do the amazing work you do.  In these times though, we will acutely focus on solutions that are  really hot right now.  I see improving upsell (replace or increase nodes in existing clusters) as next focus.

Very simple to use if you are familiar with VDI in Sizer (which is one of top workloads and so presumably you are).    Frame for AHV is simply a different broker and the display protocol is selected.  All the other options are the same.Beyond enabling it in the tool, we will soon add licenses to make that easier to quote (we have AOS and the HW now).  We will also enhance collateral with the solution as time goes on.Hope you like … let us know.  Attached is short video

Frame for AHV

 

March 31

Hi gang

We are actively building out Sizer Basic and Sizer Advanced.  Sizer Basic for customers, reps, other non-technical folks who want a sizing and just go with the default profiles.  Sizer Advanced will offer the SE much more advanced functionality for multiple workloads, multiple clusters, etc

As we build those out we want to get some of the functionality out in Sizer when available.  Today we introduced Workload Filters.  We see a workload where with Collector you may have a hundred workloads and finding what you want will be hard.  Enter the filter where you can filter by workload name, workload type, number of VMs. cores, RAM, SSD (either less than or greater than a value ), status (enabled/disabled).

Examples

• Show me just workloads of certain type (e.g. VDI)
• Show me workloads that have min or max of so many cores (could be RAM, HDD,SSD)
• show me just enabled workloads
• show me ones with certain name string or partial string
• Combine all the above

This will ultimately be accompanied with BULK EDITs.  So find me all the VDI workloads with certain name string and change profile to Power User for example. Here is screen shot (edited)

 

March 16

We did come out with new Sprint last night

Backup  is now a  regular primary workload like VDI, Server Virt, etc (see below).  It had been a target for existing workloads but now Backup can be a primary workload where you figure out the backup requirements if the customer is just wanting back up some data from some other systems beside Nutanix

12TB HDD/min12 cores

Partial population rule for Nutanix with 1.92TB SSD

NX: 128GB with mCPU, LCPU

various updates for Dell XC

 

March 2

Great to see so many of you at GTS America

We did go live with the new sprint.

Now have full BOM for HP DX.  Why that is important is as you go to the HP store to place a quote you will have full information you need including the power supply for example.  At GTS, people asked about us making a call to the HP store.  Unfortunately they don’t have a API we can call.  We will work on making it easier though with a link from Sizer We did do The cascade refresh CPUs but not live in Sizer yet.  I would expect those in next 2 days

 

Feb 24

Hi everyone

I am at GTS Americas.  Hope to see lot of you.  I have a presentation tomorrow with the Partners and one on Thursday with NX field.

• A lot of very cool things are happening in the Sizer area which I’ll discuss in these presentations but here is the summary.
• Collector 2.2 is out but coming is Collector Portal which allows customer to share their collection much easier than with Excel
• Sizer Basic is in the works and should be out this qtr.  This is streamlined for volume sales and will be available to customers.  We have had a customer program for some time which has been a success and this will be cool.  Think about collaborating with the customer on sizing.  I’ll talk more
• Sizer will get a lot more advanced.  We are moving to multiple clusters and ability to have different sizing for each cluster and for each cluster to adhere to different policy.  Auto will provide 3 options – low cost, high performance, and high cap .  Wow lot of options to play with
• Ok if that was not enough we are working on Sizer Xpert.  Sizer today is deterministic.  You want replication, RF3, Era, yada yada, by golly Sizer can do it to the 4th decimal place.  Well great if you know that is what you need.    Working on Xpert that will review your solutions and prescribe ideas.  We worked on it at hackathon and now in development.  hope to see a lot of you this week and please do reach out if want to meet 1 on 1.  Ratan Kumar will be in EMEA GTS later next month.  We will cover APAC one too