Nimble Storage – VMUG Success StoryNick Furnell

Welcome

Less than 50 Less than 100 More?

How many VM’s do you run?

How many VM’s do you run?

25 VM’s

3 Hosts, single CPU

Local DC +

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25 VM’s

3 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 AMS200

5 years old

Due for replacement

Head Office ISP Co-Lo

Hitachi AMS2100

1 year old

Your Christmas wish list 2012?

Your Christmas wish list 2012?

Playing Solitare on a Grand Scale!

Hitachi AMS200

iSCSI

8TB

FC & SATA

Head Office ISP Co-Lo

Hitachi AMS2100

Fibre Channel

8TB

SAS & SATA

New SAN

Faster

More Capacity

Proposed replacement SAN

AMS2100 Proposed Replacement

Keogh Report Implications

AMS2100 Proposed Replacement

Solid Storage

Great Backup

Needed Flexibility

AMS2100 Alternative Replacement

Hybrid

Solution

Disaster Strikes mid-project

25 VM’s

3 Hosts, single CPU

Local DC +

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Latency

<20ms

+100ms

Disaster Strikes mid-project

25 VM’s

3 Hosts, single CPU

Local DC +

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LatencyHelp!

Nimble - Testing

30GB vMotion Move

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 C220

iSCSI Volume

Compression ON

Snapshotting ON

Head Office ISP Co-Lo

Hitachi AMS2100

Traditional

VMDK Disk

Windows DFS Manages

file changes

Nimble - Volume Summary

My Favourite Nimble Features?

Flexibility

Upgradeability InfoSight

InfoSight – What’s going on?

InfoSight – What’s going on?

InfoSight – What’s going on?

Questions about my Experience?

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