nimble storage – vmug success story
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Nimble Storage – VMUG 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?. 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, Single CPU Local DC. 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader. Head Office. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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’s3 Hosts, single CPU
Local DC +AutoLoader
25 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
Your Christmas wish list 2012?
Your Christmas wish list 2012?
Playing Solitare on a Grand Scale!
Hitachi AMS200iSCSI8TB
FC & SATA
Head Office ISP Co-Lo
Hitachi AMS2100Fibre Channel
8TBSAS & SATA
New SANFaster
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’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
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 C220iSCSI Volume
Compression ONSnapshotting ON
Head Office ISP Co-Lo
Hitachi AMS2100TraditionalVMDK Disk
Windows DFS Managesfile 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?
Nimble – VMUG Success StoryTwitter: @nickfurnell http://goo.gl/uiHuVy
Nimble – VMUG Success StoryTwitter: @nickfurnell http://goo.gl/uiHuVy