nimble storage – success story
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Nimble Storage – Success Story. Nick Furnell. Welcome. How many VM’s do you run?. Less than 50 Less than 100 More?. How many VM’s do you run?. 30 VM’s 3 Hosts, Single CPU Local DC. 30 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader. Head Office. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Nimble Storage – Success StoryNick Furnell
Success
Story
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?
Nimble – Success StoryTwitter: @nickfurnell http://Talking-IT.com
Success
Story