Sizer went live with the sprint and some important features to start the year :

Upgrades quoting:

• Now quoting for upgrades scenarios is possible and the quote button for upgrade flow is enabled.
• The nodes are marked as existing or new by sizer (or can also be done manually) and can generate FL quotes for the newly added nodes
• More on Upgrades is coming with Insights integration soon !!

Performance :

• This is a big one and we all should see a significant performance improvement and sizing speed while coming up with the node recommendation.
• Depending on the complexity and size of the workload, over 70% improvement in performance has been observed on an average compared to earlier.
• A change in the technical implementation of sizing mechanism is driving bulk of the improvements.

Reference scenarios:

• Sizer has come up with a concept of Reference scenarios (a tab called ‘reference scenario’ on the dashboard screen).
• These are pre-sized scenarios by experts across workloads (For ex: Files 50TB,250 users, 250TB, 750 users , VDI 300/500 mixed user types etc)
• These reference scenarios serve as a guide/reference purpose only for a similar workload requirement (and not encouraged to clone as is)
• The feature has been widely successful with one of the partners (cdw) and now opening up for everyone

Others:

• Proposals has been updated with the latest Q1 financials/Gartner’s slides and newly added G8 models
• Default input processor set to Gold 5220 for VDI/VDA workloads for matching the real time(lab) performance numbers
• Platforms that went live:

•  NX-1175S-G8
• Dell XC ICX or 15G Phase 2 Platforms
• A30/A100/A16 GPU cards and related vGPU profiles for VDI/VDA