NEXCESS

Enterprise Infrastructure Sizer

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Architecture Sizing Tool

Nexcess Architecture Engine

Build without distraction. Scale without limits.

Validate enterprise cluster specs, node density, storage overhead, and resilience against real-world workload demands.

1

Workload & Service Specifications

VMs 18
vCPUs 120
RAM 608 GiB
Storage 8.8 TiB
Service Totals & Licensing Overrides Hover inputs for auto-calculated demand • Manual inputs override quantity
Microsoft Enterprise Stack
Microsoft SQL Server Licenses
0 VMs • 0 Cores
0 VMs • 0 Cores
0A/0P (0T) • 0 Cores
0A/0P (0T) • 0 Cores
Operating System Licenses
Windows MES
Workload Security / Management
Security Agents & Add-ons
Control Panels
2

Networking

Connectivity & Firewalls
Firewall
3

Data Protection & Business Continuity (Backups & DRaaS)

Cross-Region Failover
Acronis Cloud Backups
Auto (1.5x Disk)

Acronis Cloud Backup features automated off-site incremental backups, ransomware protection, encryption and are a pre-requirement for Acronis DR recovery options.

Account DR Tier
0 Protected VMs | 24 hr/vm/yr | 0 GB Protected Storage ~ 0 GB Overage
Storage Commit, Add-ons & Fees
1 TB Pool

Stack any combination of blocks to build the total commit (e.g. 1 TB + 5 TB = 6 TB).

4

Cluster Architecture & Parameters

AMD EPYC 9354P Standard
Node Hardware Customization
RAW: 46.08 TB NVMe per node (6 x 7.68TB)
5. Validated Platform Design

3 AMD EPYC Nodes Required

2 Active Compute + 1 Dedicated Reserve (N+1)

Bottleneck Focus RAM Memory Capacity
vCPU Allocation 0 Cores Required
Total: 0 Used: 0 Remaining: 0
RAM Footprint & Capacity 0 GiB Required
Total: 0 GiB Used: 0 GiB Remaining: 0 GiB
Net Usable NVMe Capacity 0.0 TiB Required
Total: 0.0 TiB Used: 0.0 TiB Remaining: 0.0 TiB
Visual Capacity & Overhead Breakdown
RAM Footprint Allocation
NVMe Storage Allocation
6

Node Failure Resilience (N-1 Degraded State)

Safe N-1 Resilience

Simulated resource load if 1 physical node experiences catastrophic hardware loss during peak operation:

2 Nodes Active
N-1 CPU Load 0%
Total: 0
Used: 0
Remaining: 0
N-1 RAM Load 0%
Total: 0 GiB
Used: 0 GiB
Remaining: 0 GiB
N-1 NVMe Load 0%
Total: 0.0 TiB
Used: 0.0 TiB
Remaining: 0.0 TiB
Resilience Model: Automatic HA VM restart on surviving nodes