Dynamic shapes DPTPB NX-5155-G6 & NX-8155-G6
Since there are very little differences between NX-5155-G6 and NX-8155-G6 I will cover both of them in this post, rather than making separate post for each one. NX-5155-G6 and NX-8155-G6 share the same visual appearance and disk layouts. The only minor difference is disk sizes supported with NX-5155-G6 and NX-8155-G6.
- Dynamic disk labels
- Change disk label color and text via “Shape Data” “Disk layout” pull-down menu
- Disk activity lights are turned on only if a disk is present in a disk layout
- Disk layouts
- Hybrid
- 4xSSD+8xHDD
- 2xSSD+10xHDD
- All Flash
- 2x/4x/6x/8x/10x/12xSSD
- Hybrid with Self Encrypting Drives (SED)
- 4xSED SSD + 8x SED HDD
- 2xSED SSD + 10x SED HDD
- All Flash with Self Encrypting Drives (SED)
- 2x/4x/6x/8x/10x/12xSED SSD
- NVMe + SSD
- 4xNVMe+4xSSD
- 4xNVMe+6xSSD
- 4xNVMe+8xSSD
- Hybrid
- Disk labels are color coded
- Light Green label = SSD
- Light Blue label = HDD
- Orange label = SSD (SED)
- Black label = HDD (SED)
- Gray label = NVMe
Using “Shape data” Window to modify the dynamic shapes
- Access “Shape Data” window (Visio 2016)
- “View” – “Task Panes” – “Shape Data”
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- Select a shape – Right Click – “Data” – “Shape Data”
- “Shape Data” menus are also Dynamic
- It shows only relevant info / sections
- For example if you choose All Flash disk layout, you can only choose the size of SSD drives, no menu for HDD size
- Use pull-down menus to change the appearance of the shape
“Shape Data” menu
“Select Disk Layout” menu expanded
- Depending on your selection disk label colors are changed
- Depending on your disk layout selection only relevant disk size menus are shown
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- i.e if your selected disk layout contains only SSD drives, only SSD size menu is shown, no HDD size menu is shown
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- You can also turn off labels (and disk activity leds) totally by selecting “No Label + LED On” or “No Label + LED off”
“Select SSD Size” menu expanded
- Depending on your selection the label text changes
- To have label just show color, not text, select the first line, empty line
- To have label show color and disk type, select the second line
- To have label show color, disk type and size, select third+ lines
“Select HDD Size” menu expanded
“Select SED SSD Size” menu expanded
“Select SED HDD Size” menu expanded
“Select NMVe Size” menu expanded
Examples
NX-5155-G6 / NX-8155-G6 Hybrid
Picture: NX-8155-G6 Hybrid, 2×7.68TB SSD + 10x12TB HDD
Picture: NX-5155-G6 Hybrid, 4×3.84TB SSD + 8x8TB HDD
NX-5155-G6 / NX-8155-G6 All Flash
Picture: NX-8155-G6 All Flash, 8×3.84TB SSD
Picture: NX-5155-G6 All Flash, 10×1.92TB SSD
NX-5155-G6 / NX-8155-G6 Hybrid with Self Encrypting Drives (SED)
Picture: NX-8155-G6 Hybrid (SED), 4×1.92TB SED SSD + 8x6TB SED HDD
Picture: NX-5155-G6 Hybrid (SED), 2×3.84TB SED SSD + 10x8TB SED HDD
NX-5155-G6 / NX-8155-G6 All Flash with Self Encrypting Drives (SED)
Picture: NX-8155-G6 All Flash (SED), 6x960GB SED SSD
Picture: NX-5155-G6 All Flash (SED), 12×1.92TB SED SSD
NX-5155-G6 / NX-8155-G6 NVMe + SSD
Picture: NX-8155-G6 NVMe + SSD, 4×3.84TB NVMe + 8×7.68TB SSD
Picture: NX-5155-G6 NVMe + SSD, 4×1.6TB NVMe + 6×3.84TB SSD
NX-5155-G6 / NX-8155-G6 Only disk type shown
Picture: NX-8155-G6 NVMe, 4xNVMe + 4xSSD
NX-5155-G6 / NX-8155-G6 No Labels + LED On
Picture: NX-8155-G6 No Labels + LED On
NX-5155-G6 / NX-8155-G6 No Labels + LED Off
Picture: NX-5155-G6 No Labels + LED Off
Limitations
- The text on label is shown only when using scales from 1:2 to 1:16
- The smallest font that Visio can render is 1pt
- At 1:16 the disk label text font size is 1 pt
- At 1:10 the disk label text font size is 1.6 pt
- At 1:20 the label text font size would have to be less than 1 pt, but Visio would render the font to be 1 pt in size and the text would not fit with in the label box
- Dynamic shapes are slower to use than the normal shapes
- Lot’s of code associated with the shape
- Many dynamic elements with the shape
- The initial placement from stencil to drawing might take up to 15 seconds or more, depending how powerful your computer is
- Once a dynamic shape has been used once in a drawing, subsequent placements from stencil to drawing are faster
- At the moment there is no logic for checking that the SSD and HDD combinations are actually supported
- With Nutanix models using 3.5″ drives
- your SSD size selection might limit the HDD sizes that can be used
- or vice versa your HDD selection might limit your SSD size selection
- For example with some NX models it is not supported to use smaller 480GB/960Gb/1.92TB SSD drives with larger 6TB/8TB/12TB HDDs
- Nutanix documentation around this issue is bit hazy and supported disk combinations might vary between NX models and AOS releases -> Not so easy to make disk combination checks
- With Nutanix models using 3.5″ drives
- Dynamic shapes should also work with Visio “Blank Page” template and page setting “No Scale”. But it is highly recommended to use scaled drawings (1:2 to 1:16), as “No Scale” drawings can cause much headache and unpredictable results.
Downloads
- This was a beta version of the shape and has been superseded by a new stencil containing both front and rear view dynamic shapes, for more info please read:
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- Just download the updated dynamic stencil package from Nutanix Downloads
NX-5155-G6 Dynamic Front View ShapeSample NX-8155-G6 Dynamic Front View Shape- Not an Official Nutanix shape
- Use at your own risk, no guarantees
Feedback
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