Oct 2024 Releases

Hello everyone,

We’re glad to announce the completion of another Sizer sprint! We’re excited to share with you the highlights from the October releases (8th Oct & 22nd Oct)

Key Features & Enhancements

1. NC2 on Azure Overall Solution Cost

  • Sizer budgetary quote is updated to reflect the overall NC2 on Azure solution cost.
  • Starting today, the cost of the NC2 on Azure solution is not limited to the Nutanix software but also includes the Azure hardware cost.
  • Sizer pulls live pricing info for Azure bare metals when a budgetary quote is requested.
  • The prices are based on the opportunity theater. Details are provided in the budgetary quote’s disclaimer footnotes.
  • 2. EMR CPU support with Intel Speed Select Performance Profile (SST-PP)
  • We have extended EMR CPUs beyond Cisco & Fujitsu to HPE, Lenovo & NX platforms. EMR CPU support for Dell is in the works.
  • NX platforms support EMR CPUs with Intel Speed Select Performance Profile (SST-PP)
  • Intel SST-PP facilitates multiple CPU configurations with a single CPU SKU via profile selection.  
  • Based on the workload and application types, the CPU can be reconfigured into one of the available Intel SST-PP profiles, which may contain different numbers of cores or TDP levels.
  • Intel SST-PP is limited to NX G9 platforms with select EMR CPUs. The NX team is working on field enablement content. Stayed tuned for the same.

3. Ability to share scenarios containing Insights data with Partners

  • Scenarios containing workloads created using Insights or Expansion Explorer data can be shared with partners.
  • This enables Nutanix to pass on leads generated by Expansion Explorer to be shared with partners to drive them autonomously.
  • Data gathered via Insights is considered confidential. To share the scenario with a partner, a customer consent email is mandatory.
  • We have provided a sample customer consent email template for seeking customer consent.

4. Sizer updated with AOS 6.10 CVM resource requirements

  • With GA of AOS 6.10, Sizer is updated with AOS 6.10 CVM resource requirements
  • AOS 6.10 Nutanix Configuration Maximums call out the Physical cores per CPU requirements, and Sizer is updated accordingly.
  • Starting today, Sizer scenarios will mandate new AOS 6.10 CVM resource requirements.

5. Services beyond Infrastructure Modernization

  • We have extended the Service offerings in Sizer beyond Infrastructure Modernization.
  • Support for Cloud & IT Automation Services –  Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and Automation services.
  • Sizer supports services across Design, Deployment & Automation.

6. Generate CCW File for Cisco OEM Sizer Solution

  • To simply Cisco OEM hardware quote with Nutanix software, Sizer is enhanced to Generate a CCW File that can be imported into CCW.
  • The “Generate CCW File” option can be found under “BOM” related actions.
  • The “Generate CCW File” capability is limited to homogenous and single cluster solutions.

7. New SAP HANA Models in Sizer

  • The below models are now supported for the SAP HANA use case
    • DX560-16-G11-AC-NVMe & DX560-16-G11-LC-NVMe
    • DX380-24-G11 & DX380-24-G11-NVMe 
  • SAP HANA models shall be automatically enabled in the future.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

  • Sizer Proposal PowerPoint updated with Q4 Financials.
  • Support for Storage-only node sizing extended to all hardware vendors 
  • Increased the limits of the Server Virtualization profile – new max values are 128 vCPUs and 6TB of RAM
  • Guardrails added for HPE DX380-24-G11-NVMe platforms
    • 100G NIC and processor wattage limitations (only <=270W CPUs allowed)
    • NVMe drives are limited to 16 drives when 2x 100G NICs are configured
  • Guardrails added for Fujitsu platforms configured with 96GB DIMMs – only select SPR & EMR CPUs can be configured with 96GB DIMMs
  • Dell XC solution is limited to 16G by default, so users must explicitly select the older generations under cluster settings if they prefer 15G or 14G models.

Recently launched New Models

  • HPE DX385-24-G11-NVMe
  • HPE DX380-24-G11-NVMe & EMR CPUs
  • Lenovo HX650-V3-24NVMe
  • Equinix a3-large-plus-NVMe

Feedback
We’re continuously striving to improve Sizer and provide the best possible experience. Your feedback is precious to us as we continue to iterate and enhance Sizer. If you have any suggestions or questions or encounter any issues, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

If you have any queries feel free to reach out to Sizer Support via Sizer Help or alternatively, you can reach the Sizer team via the Nutanix Community Page – Sizer Configuration Estimator

Collector 5.0

The latest release of Nutanix Collector 5.0 is now available for download.  

WHAT’S NEW

Nutanix Collector 5.0 adds support to gather data from AWS environments using Windows command line interface (CLI) mode. You can gather the configuration and performance data of the AWS resources that help understand the cloud infrastructure requirements accurately and can be exported to Sizer to size the workloads either on NC2 on AWS or on-prem datacenter.

  • Gather details about the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes, Snapshots, and Elastic File System (EFS)
  • Gather data across multiple Organization Units and/or Accounts in one go
  • Instantaneously gather utilization or performance patterns up to 180 days
  • Gather utilization data of EC2 instances – Average, Peak & 95th Percentile CPU utilization
  • Gather performance data of EBS Volumes – IOPS, IO Size & Throughput
  • Option to export the data from Collector Portal to Sizer

Demo videos

Nutanix Collector 5.0 – Prerequisites for AWS Data Collection
Nutanix Collector 5.0 – Support for AWS Data Collection

For detailed information, see the Collector User Guide.

UPDATED FEATURES

The following features are updated as part of this release

  • AHV Collections
    • Support for “Storage Containers” information
    • CVM resource utilization information – helps in simulating the existing customer environment for expansion use cases
  • Hyper-V Collections
    • Provisioned & Consumed Capacity reporting at the host level
  • Updates to the metadata sheet
    • Collection Date & Time
    • Performance Data Duration

RESOLVED ISSUES

The following issues are resolved in this release

  • Resolved an issue where Nutanix Collector failed to collect performance data for the Hyper-V host.
  • The tooltip information was showing an incorrect time of collection while gathering the performance data from Hyper-V clusters.

RESOURCES

CALL TO ACTION

Simplify your requirement gathering by downloading Collector

Public URL: Collector Download Link for Prospects (no login required)

MyNutanix URL: Collector Download Link for MyNutanix Users 

Report issues in Collector via this Google form

Thank you,
Team Nutanix Collector