Only two separate nodes Picture:В Node NX-X065-G5 Picture: NIC shapes in Visio вЂњShapesвЂќ window Picture: GPUВ shapes and Empty NIC shapes in Visio вЂњShapesвЂќ window Empty NIC with inward connection points.quad-port NIC (with four connection points).dual-port NIC (with two connection points).Brocade, Cisco, HPE or Nutanix DAC cables.for more details see my prior blog post.it is highly suggested NOT toВ use Nutanix supplied DAC cables.If using Brocade, Cisco or HPE switches.Separate Network Interface cards (NIC) shapes For single node per block Nutanix models there is no separate node shape (no need for one).Empty chassis without nodes for multi-node blocks.For Nutanix models that have multiple nodes per block.IвЂ™ve built my shapes from following sub components Separate Node shapes I could have made the shapes even modular, but in order to keep user experience good IвЂ™veВ tried to find a balance between shape maintenance and usability. For example: If you need to move a port location, just change one sub-shape and then copy that sub-shape to all the other shapes sharing the same sub-shape rather than fixing port location for each and every shape that needed port to be relocated. Maintaining a shape which is built from components or sub-shapes is much easier. On the other hand maintaining such вЂњlumpedвЂќ shapes is quite difficult. This will minimize the shape size and makes it fast to pull the shape into a drawing. To minimize shape size and make it fast and easy to use, it is best to lump all shape elements into just one shape, with no sub-shapes or grouped sub-shapes. Modularity with Visio shapes is a balance between shape usage and shape development. Examples of new shape vs old shape Picture: NX-1155-G5 1GbE old shape I wonвЂ™t bore you with all the details how I did it, maybe I will visit this topic in a separate post. With some trickery with different vector picture formatsВ and Inkscape editor, I was able to squeeze down the shape size quite dramatically and got shape placement time down to max 10-15 seconds. Unfortunately these shapes were so вЂњheavyвЂќ that it took 2-3 minutes to pull one shape to Visio drawing. So the next best thing was to take a X9 generation Visio shape, break it down to components and modify it to look like a X10 generation shape.В With the first iteration of the new shapes I was quite pleased with how the shapes looked like. You can find older generation X8/X9 SuperMicro Visio stencils from Internet. I once more asked from SuperMicro support for X10 Visio stencils, but no reply. Unfortunately SuperMicro Visio stencils are not available for the public. G5 generation of Nutanix hardware seems to be based on SuperMicro X10 generation hardware. The easy solution would have been usingВ SuperMicro Visio stencils. Need I say more on using raster based images with Visio? Building new shapesД«uilding these vector based Nutanix shapes was quite a chore. IвЂ™ve fixed that as well with new version of cable and placeholder shapes. While the raster based image might scale quite nicely when used in Visio, itВ does not zoom so well in PDF-format, a typicalВ formatВ to distribute finished Visio drawings.ДЄs seen in example aboveВ Port placeholder shapes did not scale so well either, even when they were vector based. Picture: Example ofВ old raster imageВ based original Nutanix shape (NX-1465-G5)Д«oth are screenshotsВ from PDF-files exported from original Visio drawing, at 800% zoom level. Now both Nutanix and Switch shapes behave similarlyДЄs a comparison why I donвЂ™t like the original Nutanix Visio shapes: Picture: Example of new vector based DPTPB Nutanix shape (NX-1465-G5).Not really a problem with Nutanix shapes, but was a major source of frustration with switch shapes.Easier to access вЂњShape DataвЂќ window by clicking top-level shape.All rear view Nutanix DPTPB Visio shapes come now with connection points for easier shape placement.So I made my own modular vector image based Nutanix rear view shapes.I was never a fanВ of the original raster image based Nutanix shapes.Bye-bye for original Nutanix rear view shapes.Completely rebuilt/redesigned DPTPB Nutanix Visio stencil.Maupdate notes for Visio by DPTPB stencil collection Executive Summary

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