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Effortless Capacity Planning Streamlines Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions

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SyamizarAdliExplorer
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How to import RVtools output into collector for sizing

Hi,i have the the output from RVTools and finding a way to import it into collector for sizing purpose. any idea how?

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How to Import Live optics excel using import workloads in sizer

How to Import Live optics excel using  import workloads  in sizer

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AntMaeJimVoyager
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Nutanix Sizing with Lenovo Hardware

I would like to create a new scenario with Lenovo HW or modify one with NX HW to Lenovo but I don’t how I could that. Anyone could tell me if is it possible?

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Citrix VDI Sizer Error

Hello everyone!Just started playing around with the Nutanix Sizer and I am having issues creating a Citrix VDI Workload. No matter what setting is  selected, I am unable to save the changes. Above the webpage I get this error:“You can not add/edit advanced workload options for basic user”Am I missing something obvious here?

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Sami TurunenAdventurer
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Sizer: "Powered On" & "Performance" Options Combined Does not Work

I am trying to import Nutanix Collector (latest available version) excel to sizer. The excel contains a large number of “PoweredOff” virtual machines. I want to make the sizing based on performance figures only for “PoweredOn” virtual machines. If I choose “CPU: performance” I get a warning message:“Data being imported contains one or more VMs that were powered ON during the collection period and reported CPU utilization. We recommend you to size both Powered ON & Powered OFF VMs.” The warning it self doesn’t make much sense. Maybe it should read“Data being imported contains one or more VMs that were powered OFF during the collection period and did not report CPU utilization. We recommend you to size both Powered ON & Powered OFF VMs.” Additionally “Upload” button is grayed out and I cannot proceed with the sizing. IMHO the “Upload” button should not be disabled.

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ting yueExplorer
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Collection portal VM Name is garbled 

I have successfully run collection (version 4.0) in Hyper-v and export ZIP. When i upload the ZIP to collector.nutanix.com, The VM Name becomes garbled, The original VM NAME was Traditional ChineseCan you help me?  Thank you! 

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AngeTrailblazer
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Unable to Size remote DR Cluster with Nutanix Sizer

Hello Team,Hope your are all doing well  We need to size a New Nutanix Cluster for Disaster Recovery purposes of an existing cluster (04 x NX-8155-G7 with AHV).Before that, we need to scale the Existing platform by adding more compute ressources to support additionnal workloads. We were able to do it easily : we used a Scenario in Prism Central and added the workloads and clicked on the “Recommend” Button (please see pic below) :  Now, we are not able to do the following :Size the additionnal storage related to retention of local snapshots (for the Production Cluster) Size the Cluster of the DR Site : We used Nutanix collector to collect performance of the existing platform and next we exported the Excel Output file and imported it to Nutanix Sizer. We faced from the following :We are not able to inject the additionnal Workloads for the Production cluster We are not able to add the addtionnal storage related to retention of remote snapshots.Please do you have any idea to correctly size

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Muhammad Asif ShaikhPathfinder
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Workload not added in Sizer Scenario

Hello All,Due to an ongoing project; Yesterday I subscribed on 30 days trial of Nutanix Sizer. Everything till the creation of scenario went well but facing issues when I try to add workload into my scenario. Under Workload addition form, have entered and saved all required info but unfortunately workload is not adding into my scenario. Tried almost all options but no luck. Please advise and help to get it resolve.

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Michael.Manuele
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jharm73Adventurer
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Nutanix Collector runs but has no data

I have successfully run Collector against our Prism Central which manages about 22 clusters.  It took a long time to run but after it was done, with no error messages, there was no data.  How can I start to troubleshoot this?  I did find this in the logs…. 2021-11-04 13:56:33,288  INFO:  connecting..2021-11-04 13:56:33,304  INFO:  Initializing data collection2021-11-04 13:56:33,304  INFO:  Collecting datacenter data2021-11-04 13:56:33,304  INFO:  Collecting vm data2021-11-04 13:56:41,018  INFO:  'NoneType' object is not subscriptable2021-11-04 14:05:19,187  INFO:  Invalid response while getting clusters2021-11-04 14:05:19,187  INFO:  "{\"Prism Central\":[\"0005a047-ec19-f45f-4962-ac1f6b3bd5cd\",\"00056880-2345-ae87-7622-ac1f6b61a91e\",\"000534cb-9366-4532-0000-00000000c24c\",\"0005883e-3aa8-a7ce-0000-000000028588\",\"0005b846-f7d2-6368-1cd9-3cecef19a428\",\"00058c64-2e36-5f32-0000-000000028204\",\"000538ca-9aa8-9183-2c4c-0cc47ac328b5\",\"0005b8ab-8d4e-03c1-59a3-3cecef19c0c6\",\"0005869

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kkrisselPathfinder
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Nutanix Collector failed to login

Nutanix collector fails to log into Prism central. This is the error I am getting. “Failed to login. Possible reasons could be having insufficient access permissions, missing binaries or failure to execute scripts” Has anyone seen this issue?

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AWatkinsVoyager
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Hyper-V Collector output causing error on import

Collector 3.5.1, Windows version. The customer has collected the data from a 2-node Hyper-V cluster and I can open the excel and browse through it - it looks right to me, I see all the VMs etc. When I try and import into sizer, I get “Some unknown error occurred”.  Any ideas?  There’s nothing particularly strange or unusual in the data that I can think of.  In the meantime I will probably try and manually add the equivalent workload. Thanks, Allan.

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Sizer issues today?

Hey everyone, is anyone experiencing issues with Sizer today (31/8/21)?  When I login all my scenarios have gone (including others shared with me), and if I try and create a new scenario it just sticks on the new scenario details page...

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ashwin.ramaswamy
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ashwin.ramaswamyNutanix Employee
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Collector Security Guide

Collector SecurityNutanix takes a holistic approach to security process to ensure complete protection of customer environment and data. The Nutanix security development life cycle (SecDL) integrates security into every step of product development. All the features and functionalities of Collector Desktop Application and Collector Portal follow the strictest security guidelines.For additional details about the Collector Desktop Application and the Collector Portal, refer to the Collector User Guide and Collector Portal User Guide available at the Collector Documentation page.Collector Desktop ApplicationCollector is a desktop application that is run on Nutanix prospects and existing customer systems. The application connects to the prospect or customers' data centers, clusters, and hosts and collects the configuration and performance data. Since the application is connecting to the users' systems and pulling the information, this guide details the security measures that Collector has in

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Aki ShibaExplorer
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Enhance request of Nutanix Sizer updated notice mail

Hi Nutanix Sizer tool development team,If you have possible, Could you enhance of notice mail function when the Sizer tool updated ?

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Brent MeadowsAdventurer
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How to Edit RVTools before import to Sizer

I’m attempting to import an RVTools into the Sizer tool. I want to exclude some of the VMs before import by editing the RVTools file.  When I edit the file and try to import, I get an error “Host cluster cell not found”There are more than 300 VMs, so I can’t import on the VM level and just disable the individual workloads there.Any ideas or methods anyone would suggest to editing the RVTools beforehand? Thanks in advance!

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Michael HoenemannVoyager
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Collector 3.1 for Hyper-V Gets Error

I want to collect informations from a single hyper-V host in a cluster.But i get an error:HTTPSConnectionPool(host='192.168.10.141', port=5986): Max retries exceeded with url: /wsman (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x000001AD0B88C808>: Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it'))Powershell 5.1 is installed, IP is correct. Has someone an idea?

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waltomaleyNutanix Employee
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Sizer 5.0 is out

Great pleasure to say Sizer 5.0 is now liveTwo very big thingsCluster settings/cluster policy.  We always allowed you to edit the model list and set thresholds for cpu/ram etc that the cluster must meet.  Lot more now.  Mihn cpu speed.  Required networking.  Also added policy.  So you can state I want production, test/dev, or mission critical policy.  This gives you more rigor in the sizing as enforces best practicesMultiple recommendations  Sizer by default gives you the lowest cost solution.  That is there but now core optimized and storage optimized too.  So solution with more cores or more storage that fits in cost range you state.  Good to have multiple options

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GOKAdventurer
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ntnxcollector_precheck.ps1 is not working with german active directory

I tried to use the precheck script on one of our Hyper-V servers.Everything works fine, but I get the error message ".... not a Domain Admin." even though my user is a domain admin. I think this might be related to the fact that the Domain Admins group is called "Domänen-Admins".Has anyone seen something like this before?

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RaedZaherScout
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Sizer - Create budgetary quote error

I am facing an issue with the sizer while generating a budgetary quote.  Help please! 

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gary.foster-72675
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JohnAbellaVoyager
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Time run collector

Hi Community, I want to know how many time is necessary run the collector in the environment of user. In the manual and video about collector, doesn’t said it. The excel file is create immediate? Or, is necessary run many days?

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MoisesRoldanNutanix Employee
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Data Collector not showing CPU and Memory Data

I have a customer who’s using the tool, but once she connects the tool the values of CPU and memory displays 0% of utilization. Can you help me to address this issue? 

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MelissaAdamsAdventurer
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Unable to manually edit my scenarios!

Did partners lose the ability to manually configure nodes?  I need to see available procs for a model and all of a sudden I don’t see a way to look at any manual configuration options.  This isn’t good.

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Permissions to modify scenarios

I am having issues editing the scenarios, I’m working on with the below error message: Advanced scenarios can only be edited by Advanced users. Basic users can view the Advanced scenarios in read-only mode.This editing and modifications worked for me last week, not sure what happened.

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waltomaleyNutanix Employee
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Sizer Basic available to all Nutanix customers

Hi everyoneI lead the Sizer team.  I wanted to formally introduce Sizer Basic which is now available for all customers in their My Nutanix portalSizer Basic - Provides customers a simple approach to building out an environment.  Maybe you are thinking about new projects or want to do some what-ifs on expanding your cluster with more workloads.  Sizer Basic is great to scope that out.  From there can share the scenario with your SE.  Here is a demo 

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NutonianNutanix Employee
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Nutanix Collector Features

What is Nutanix Collector ?It is a desktop application that collects cluster statistics from your VMware or Prism cluster. This output can then be viewed in Nutanix collector or can be downloaded as an Excel file. You can then upload these Excel files into Nutanix Sizer to size and predict future workloads or just to collect statistics on current usage.Nutanix collector enables you to collect data in following methods: You can choose between: Data center/Cluster or All entities registered to vCenter Single Cluster or all entities registered to Prism Central   What you need in order to install:You can install Nutanix collector on your desktop and then connect to either vSphere or Prism to collect statistics. Log in to Nutanix portal and download Nutanix collector desktop application package from Downloads>Essential Tools Install the package on your desktop  What you can see:The Clusters Summary tab displays the configuration details and performance metrics of the clusters includi

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