Nutanix Collector 4.1 release is focused on the stability of the data collection, enhancements & bug fixes. Below is a summary of the changes. 

ENHANCEMENTS

Following are the feature enhancements made in this release:

• ONTAP CIFS Shares

Collector can now identify the storage associated with CIFS Share Home Directories

“Search Path” column is added for CIFS shares configured as home directories, this helps in mapping Volume associated with Home Directories

• Added Support to report Storage associated via Volume Groups

VolumeGroups sheet now reports all the volume groups that are associated with the discovered VMs – 

vDisk sheet now reports the vDisks that are part of Volume Group. Additional columns under vDisk are – Volume Group Name, Volume Group Disk, Volume Group Shared, Disk UUID, Volume Group UUID

vmList sheet now reports if the VM has Volume Groups attached. Additional columns under vmList are – Volume Group Attached, Volume Group Capacity (MiB) & Volume Group Consumed (MiB)

• Added support to gather multiple NICs associated with a VM via Prism Element

If a VM supports multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs), the Collector output exported as an XLSX shows all the supported NICs in the vNetwork tab.

COLLECTOR PORTAL ENHANCEMENTS

The below enhancements are available in Collector Portal as part of his release

• Collector Portal now supports a simple 1-click option to export NetApp ONTAP projects to Size Nutanix Files

Export to Sizer is supported for Collections gathered via Collector 4.1 and later versions

Export to XLSX is supported for Collections irrespective of Collector version

• When exporting data to Sizer, the “Provisioned Capacity” is the default storage selection

Users are free to switch to “Consumed Capacity”

Defaulting to “Provisioned Capacity” is applied for both compute based workloads and Netapp ONTAP capacity workloads

• Optimized the process of fetching VM information when dealing with a large number (1K+) of VMs
• Improved the histogram chart under the VMs Summary tab by ignoring the powered OFF VMs when showing the distribution of VMs by CPU utilization. 
• Collector provides a specific error message and suggests actions when the user is not registered on the Sizer portal and tries to export Collector Project to Sizer. 

RESOLVED ISSUES

The following issues are resolved in this release:

• Resolved an issue where the Collector Portal was unable to generate an XLSX file when NetApp ONTAP Volume did not report Consumed Capacity & Snapshot Reserved Capacity.
• Significantly improved the time taken to gather information via Prism when Collector is unable to gather Guest OS information.
• Resolved an issue with Data Collection when gathering data via Prism due to the failure of Prism APIs. 
• Resolved the cluster connection issue when trying to gather data via the Prism version AOS 5.15.4
• Data collection completes successfully when clusters intermittently fail to report performance data.  
• Resolved an issue in collecting the vNetwork data for AOS 5.20.2.1 (AHV – 20201105.2244) and higher versions.
• Resolved the data center name identified by the Collector for the Prism Element clusters.

RESOURCES

• Release Notes, User Guide & Security Guide
• Collector Help Pages
• Collector FAQs 
• Product Videos 
• Collector in 30 seconds (draft) 

Short Demo link: Collector ONTAP Export to Sizer

CALL TO ACTION

Simplify your requirement gathering by downloading Collector

Download Collector via Collector Login Page

Public URL: Collector Download Link for Prospects

MyNutanix URL: Collector Download Link for MyNutanix Users 

Report issues in Collector via this Google form

Thank you,

Team Nutanix Collector