Nimble Storage – Success StoryNick Furnell

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Welcome

Less than 50 Less than 100 More?

How many VM’s do you run?

How many VM’s do you run?

30 VM’s3 Hosts, single CPU

Local DC +AutoLoader

30 VM’s3 Hosts, Single CPU

Local DC

Head Office ISP Co-Lo

How many VM’s do you run?

Head Office ISP Co-Lo

Less than 20TB Less than 50TB More?

How much Storage do you have?

How old is your SAN Infrastructure?

Hitachi AMS2005 years old

Due for replacement

Head Office ISP Co-Lo

Hitachi AMS21001 year old

Proposed replacement SAN...

AMS200 Proposed Replacement

2013 Keogh Report Implications

AMS200 Proposed Replacement

Solid Storage

Great Backup

Needed Flexibility

AMS200 Alternative Replacement

Hybrid

Solution

Disaster Strikes mid-project

30 VM’s3 Hosts, single CPU

Local DC +AutoLoader

Head Office

Latency

<20ms

+100ms

Disaster Strikes mid-project

25 VM’s3 Hosts, single CPU

Local DC +AutoLoader

Head Office

LatencyHelp!

Nimble - Testing

Compression?

Snapshots?

Caching?

Block Size?

Single 6TB Volume

Nimble - Traditional Volumes?

Data Repository? Structured by Services? Something else?

How do you view Storage?

Nimble – per Volume based Profiles

Traditional Layout Flexible Nimble Layout

Images (iSCSI)

Unstructured Data

Groupwise e-mail

Payroll

SQL Backups

Veeam Cache

Nimble – Manual vVols?

Nimble C220iSCSI Volume

Compression & Caching OFFSnapshotting ON

Head Office ISP Co-Lo

Hitachi AMS2100TraditionalVMDK Disk

Windows DFS Managesfile changes

Nimble - Volume Summary

My Favourite Nimble Features?

Flexibility

Upgradeability InfoSight

Flexibility – Volume Creation

Volume Compression Caching ProtectionProfile

BlockSize

A On Off Hourly 4k

B Off Off Daily 8k

C On On Weekly 16k

D Off On Off 32k

Flexibility – Volume Creation

Volume Limit Access VolumeWarning

SnapshotQuota

SnapshotWarning

A ESX 90% Unlimited off

B ESX 80% Unlimited off

C Backup 80% 20% 10%

D Linux 95% Unlimited 20%

Upgradeability – Hot Plug Tray

Upgradeability – Hot Plug Tray

InfoSight – What’s going on?

Remote Access

Engineer View Global Monitoring

InfoSight – Performance Past & Future

InfoSight – Want more detail?

InfoSight – Impact of Information

InfoSight – Under the hood

Questions about my Experience?

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