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Nimble Storage – Success StoryNick Furnell
Succes
s
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’s
3 Hosts, single CPU
Local DC +
AutoLoader
30 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
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 +
AutoLoader
Head Office
Latency
<20ms
+100ms
Disaster Strikes mid-project
25 VM’s
3 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 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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