Effortless capacity planning streamlines hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions

Streamline your HCI and cloud solution deployments with fast and accurate infrastructure sizing for all types of workloads. Get the maximum workload density, performance and value for your business with Nutanix Sizer.

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Insightful Right-Sizing

Eliminate the guesswork when sizing hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) projects with a proven methodology that produces precise solution planning recommendations encompassing both Nutanix software and cluster node hardware.

Control application and workload sizing definitions used in the planning process, and combine with flexible target hardware vendor platforms, organizations have the ability to create predictable “what-if” scenarios that produce actionable bill-of-materials reports.

CAPABILITIES AND BENEFITS

Multiple Apps and Workload Support

Sizer enables organizations to reduce or eliminate many infrastructure silos by mixing all required datacenter workload types together in the planning model. These include database, end-user computing solutions, raw formats and more. Customize workloads and target platforms to deliver a tailor-made datacenter solution sizing.

Multiple Apps and Workload Support
Real-World Workload Utilization Data

Real-World Workload Utilization Data

Streamline the process of establishing infrastructure utilisation baselines for workloads to be migrated onto Nutanix. Collector provides a simple method to quickly capture production workload utilization metrics, which are then imported into Sizer enabling for the most accurate planning recommendations.

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Hypervisor Choice with Multiple Vendor Platforms

Sizer enables complete flexibility to create plans based on all Nutanix-supported hardware vendor platforms and hypervisors. As Sizer automatically adapts solution calculations based on the capabilities of the underlying target infrastructure and components, organizations are .

Hypervisor Choice with Multiple Vendor Platforms
Detailed Reports of Planned Usage

Detailed Reports of Planned Usage

Detailed Sizer reports provide a granular level of projected infrastructure resource usage, highlighting infrastructure and resilience overheads and effective capacity. Use report data for “what-if” analysis to determine the best solution fit for your organization.

Complete Bill Of Materials (BOM)

The optional downloadable BOM report shows all relevant sizing details in addition to software and hardware components, applicable SKUs and an infrastructure rack view. Any associated recommended best practices solutions documents are also included.

Complete Bill Of Materials (BOM)
Forrester Wave HCI Q4 2023

Nutanix is named a Leader in the 2023 Forrester Wave™: Hyperconverged Infrastructure report

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ACCURATE PLANNING FOR ALL YOUR APPLICATIONS

Sizer provides all common workload definitions for easy sizing, plus offers the ability to customize workload definitions, enabling exceptionally granular definitions for accurate HCI capacity planning.

ANY WORKLOAD, ANY SCALE

Predictable End-User Computing (EUC) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Planning

Predictable End-User Computing (EUC) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Planning

  • Define EUC/VDI resource needs for Citrix, VMware and Nutanix brokers and Desktops-as-a-Service (DaaS) platforms.
  • Deliver consistent and reliable capacity plans for a wide range of EUC/VDI scenarios.
  • Size for task, knowledge, developer and power users, or define custom user profiles.
  • Flexible provisioning types include linked and full clones.
  • Include user home directory storage capacity within plans.
  • Full infrastructure capability planning for storage compression, dedup, data protection and more... 

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Uplevel Database Solution Planning

  • Define workload requirements for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases.
  • Provision databases independently, or by Nutanix Era for one-click database operation simplicity.
  • Incorporate database snapshot plans for either Nutanix AOS or Era snapshot capabilities.
  • Granular database protection policy control, based on daily database change rate or daily log sizes as either a percentage or capacity of change.
  • Sizings are based on Nutanix database deployment best practices with URLs to guides.

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Uplevel Database Solution Planning

HOW IT WORKS

A Comprehensive Planning Solution for HCI and On-Premises Clouds

Nutanix Sizer offers a powerful planning solution that combines workload data inputs with nutanix best practices, workload modules and target platform details.

Sizer eliminates complex manual processes for establishing new infrastructure requirements by comparing thousands of solution iterations to find the best fit based on user inputs. Results include a full bill of materials that further simplifies next steps.

A Comprehensive Planning Solution for HCI and On-Premises Clouds

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