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Infrastructure planning tool

Nutanix
Capacity Sizer.

Plan raw and estimated usable capacity for a Nutanix cluster. The calculation shows replication overhead, a full-node recovery reserve, and growth.

01

Cluster layout

Use matching capacity configurations for a simple planning estimate.

02

Planning headroom

Reserve space to rebuild after a node failure, plus planned workload growth.

How this estimate works

Resilience before
utilization.

RF2 keeps two data copies and tolerates one failure. RF3 keeps three copies and requires at least five nodes. This tool holds back the equivalent of one node for RF2 or two nodes for RF3, then applies the selected replication factor and growth allowance.

It does not estimate compression, deduplication, erasure coding, CVM overhead, metadata, performance, or licensing. Validate a final design with Nutanix Sizer and compatible hardware.

Planning estimate only. This independent tool is not Nutanix Sizer and does not replace a validated Nutanix design.