Nimble Storage Introduction – Manitoba VMUG 2013
Eddie Tang – Senior Systems Engineer
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Company Snapshot
§ Founded in January 2008; started shipping in August 2010
§ Headquartered in San Jose, CA; operations in US, Canada, Europe, and Australia
§ Over 300 employees
Rapidly growing installed base of over 850 customers and
1500 deployments
Partner eco-system expanding quickly, with over 350 VARs
Strong alliances with VMware, Cisco, Microsoft and CommVault
Leadership team brings deep industry expertise and business
building experience
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Western Canadian Clients
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Nimble CASL Architecture
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CASL - Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout
Data Comes into NVRAM
4K
32K
16K
8K
4K
Application acknowledgement
Data Integrity and Compression
CRC check sums that ensures application
integrity
Data is LZ compressed 1.8-2X
1G
1G
12G - 24G DRAM
12G - 24G DRAM
Write Serialization to Disk
100s if not 1000s of random I/O concatenated
and written using large sequential disk I/O
RAID 6+1
A
at
D
ll
a
Ra
nd
om
Da
ta
Adaptive
Flash Cache
SSDs are 100% cache for Reads
Constant light-weight sweeping ensures constant
sequential stripes
15,000 to 40,000 R/W IOPS to 12
- 7.2K RPM Drives and 4 SSDs
Converging performance / capacity in 3U Chassis
(12) SATA
1TB/2TB/3TB
Drives
Snapshots
30+ days
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(4) MLC SSD’s
80G/160G/300G
600G Drives
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Ideal for Exchange
Accelerate
Gain Performance
10-24x
Published and verified
Microsoft Exchange ESRP
benchmark results.
Nimble
12 disks
for 40,000
mailboxes
Equalogic
Empower
Save and Protect
MAILBOXES PER DISK
3,333
Protect
EMC
32 disks for
10,000
mailboxes
34 disks for
10,000
mailboxes
312
294
NetApp
64 disks for
12,000
mailboxes
187
Compellent
72 disks for
10,000
mailboxes
139
“We started out deploying SQL workloads primarily on
the Nimble array. Very quickly we realized we had
enough performance headroom to consolidate our very demanding
Exchange 2010 deployment on the same array.”
–Ron Kanter, IT Director, Berkeley Research Group
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COMPRESSION
1.8x
Actual results
across all
Nimble
customers
deploying
Exchange
2010
CUSTOMERS RETAINING
SNAPSHOTS FOR
>1 MONTH
48%
Actual results
across all
Nimble
customers
deploying
Exchange
2010
“With Nimble, we were able to run 3 snapshot backups a day and
replicate offsite twice daily. Exchange users notice no performance
degradation. Backups take minutes, not hours. Snapshot backups
require very little space and are recoverable and mountable locally and
remotely. A mailbox or Exchange system can be recovered in literally minutes.
Best of all, we can regularly test our procedures for Disaster Recovery.”
–Lucas Clara, IT Director, Foster Pepper LLC
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Nimble Snapshot Efficiency Advantage
Accelerate
Usage (GB)
§ Redirect-on-write snapshots
consume little space with
no performance penalty
§ Variable Block Analysis
§ Inline-Compression
§ Block Duplication Avoidance
§ Allows for longer retention
periods of 30–120 days
30x
Protect
Empower
102.1 GB
Less space
with Nimble

“90% of restores occur
within 30 days of backup.”
– Lauren Whitehouse, ESG
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2.9 GB
Nimble
Competitor
Production Exchange 2010 deployment; 20GB Exchange Infostor
Used DAG to mirror database to EqualLogic and Nimble CS-Series
Captured daily snapshots on both systems for ten days
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Nimble Protection Manager
§ Predefined app templates enable simple
three-step configuration for storage and
data protection
§ Application performance profiles optimize
app performance & capacity
§ Enables cost effective extension of appnative deleted item retention
HyperV
Exchange
VMware
SQL
Oracle
§ Application/VM-consistent
instant backup/restore and efficient
replication
§ Hypervisor integrated zero-copy cloning
dramatically lowers VDI cost &
accelerates app test/dev
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vCenter Plugin
New “Nimble Array” tab
Shows Datastores, associated volumes, IO and capacity usage
Button to create a new datastore creates and configures a volume on
Nimble array right from vCenter (performance profile, ACLs, protection)
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vCenter Plugin
§ "Manage DataStore" from vCenter
– Resize, delete or clone Datastore n-times
– Edit snapshot/replication schedules
– Restore Datastore from snapshot
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Vmware View VDI – 600 concurrent seat
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Gain Peace of Mind and More
Accelerate
PUSH-BUTTON
DEPLOYMENT
§All-inclusive
features
§Built-in application profiles
eliminate manual tuning
§Extensive integration with
hypervisors and
applications
§Non-disruptive software
upgrades
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PROACTIVE
WELLNESS
§5-minute
heartbeats and
detailed daily telemetry
ensure arrays are in top
condition
Protect
SECURE REMOTE
SUPPORT
Empower
Nimble
Support
§Secure tunnel
enables fast and
easy triage and
problem resolution
§Real-time analysis of entire
environment with
automated case creation
before failure occurs
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Nimble Scale to Fit
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Scaling Today
Traditional Storage
Scale-Out Storage
PERFORMANCE
Head unit + Disk Shelves
+Low cost capacity upgrade
-Must forecast needs up front
-Scaling limited; storage silos
-Data migration is a nightmare
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CAPACITY
Scale-Out Cluster
+Low upfront cost, simplified management
-Expensive expansion
-Must purchase performance and capacity together
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Scale Cache, Compute, Capacity, Nodes
SCALE
CACHE,
COMPUTE
Flexible. Non-disruptive. Cost-effective.
A
SC
O
LE
UT
PERFORMANCE
+ FLASH
AND
CPU
+ NODES
SCALE
CAPACITY
+ DISK
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CAPACITY
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Nimble Scaling for Mainstream Applications
Real-time Analytics
A
SC
VDI
Mainstream
Applications
T
OU
E
L
Oracle
PERFORMANCE
SQL Server
`
Exchange
SharePoint
Backup, DR
Archival, Cheap and Deep
CAPACITY
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Flexible, Non-disruptive Scaling
Scale Capacity, Cache, Compute, and Nodes
Head Shelf
Controllers
Expansion Shelves
Denser
SSDs
Faster
Controllers
Expansion Shelves
Industry leading granular scalability:
§To scale performance, swap with higher density SSDs and/or faster controllers
§To scale capacity, add shelves
§To scale performance and capacity further, cluster additional arrays
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Nimble CS-Series Storage Solution
§
Consolidate 4x more–high perf and efficiency
–
§
Instant snapshot and restore
–
–
–
§
1000’s of efficient snapshots
VSS / VMware integration
WAN-efficient replication
Scale-to-fit architecture
–
§
Compact 3U chassis
Scale-up/scale-capacity/scale-out as
needed
All-inclusive enterprise features
–
Cloning, thin provisioning, replication,
CS210
CS220 /
CS240 /
etc.
CS220G
CS240G
– Simple management for storage,
Usable
8TB backup, DR16TB
32TB
assuming 2x
compression
CS420 /
CS420G
CS440 /
CS440G
CS460 /
CS460G
48TB
16TB
32TB
48TB
2.4TB
1.3TB
1.3TB
2.4TB
Flash
320GB
640GB
Network
4 x 1GbE
6 x 1GbE or 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE (G models)
Controllers
Dual hot-swappable controllers in active-passive configurations with mirrored NVRAM
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1.3TB
CS260 /
CS260G
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Nimble ES-Series External Storage Shelf
§
Add additional storage with an external storage shelf
–
§
Connect up to three (2) additional shelves
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§
Compact 3U chassis
Scale storage capacity non-disruptively
Uses 6Gb SAS connectivity from controller to shelf
–
Support multipathing from controller to shelves
§
Each shelf is its own RAID Group
§
Spares assigned for each shelf
ES1-H25
ES1-H45
ES1-H65
Usable assuming 2x inline
compression
Flash Cache assuming 2x
inline compression
Connectivity
21TB
42TB
64TB
320GB
600GB
1.2TB
IO Modules
Dual hot-swappable SAS controllers
2x 6Gb SAS / IO module
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Thank You
SD23 Central Okanagan School District
All that IBM storage being replaced by
CS260G (3U, 500W)
Month of data retained for backups
1,500 snapshots taken and stored,
replacing 2 x DD565s
Installed and Serving data in hours
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