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Hi Jon - thank you for your replies and apologies for the delayed response. Yes, I used nutanix sizer to get an idea, plus observed their current work loads (cpu / ram / disk) utiilsation via vcenter / vsphere client - discussed their peak times etc with their IT ops team. Got a list of their Virtual Machines and vcpus assigned to get an idea of how they are utilising their existing specs. Capacity: calculated the capacity + factored in their growth (didn't include storage efficiency when sizing capacity). With Nutanix Sizer, it has 3 types of VM (Small / Medium / Large) - is there a way to input the exact vcpu's assigned for a current virtualised environment? for example either input via csv or manual (where we input virtual machines + vcpu + ram) ? What other sizing tools would you recommend for future physical or virtual workloads? Best regards
Hi Jon - Many thanks for your reply and support. I have a design / sizing related question: For one of my prospective (SMB) customer with 3 x ESX Hosts and 65 Virtual Machines (Exchange / SQL / Oracle - JDedwards and others) -- I have come up with the following config: Exchange = 400 MBX (version 2010) Oracle JDedwards = used company wide with around 200 users maximum SQL - is used by an internal / in-house built ERP (.Net Application + SQL Server) all other virtual machines are test / dev + a virtualised TMG for content filtering. 2RU - 4Nodes (NX-1465-G5) 8 x Intel Xeon Processor 2.1GHz 8-core Broadwell E5-2620 v4 20M Cache32 x 16GB DDR4 Memory Module8 x 6TB 3.5" HDD4 x 800GB 3.5" SSD4 x 10GbE Dual Base-T Network Adapter with the above config, i get 128GB Ram per node and approx. 19TiB overall usable capacity with RF2. My Questions: a) Are NX Nodes as reliable a hardware platform as Dell / Lenovo Nodes? b) 6TB Drives - Incase of a single drive failure - rebuild
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