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’s

3 Hosts, single CPU

Local DC +

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30 VM’s

3 Hosts, Single CPU

Local DC

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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

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’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

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 & Caching OFF

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

Flexibility – Volume Creation

Volume Compression CachingProtection

ProfileBlockSize

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 AccessVolumeWarning

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?

Nimble – Success StoryTwitter: @nickfurnell http://Talking-IT.com

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