Transforming your Datacenter with Nimble Storage Phil Davies, Senior Systems Engineer, UKI George Bonser, Sales, UKI @NimbleStorage © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Why? Why did you build it? What did our Founders have in mind? “We wanted to create the first solution to solve the capacity problem and performance problem in the same storage system”. “This was the foundation of why we started the design”. This enables us to collapse primary storage and backup storage on the same storage platform. Cost Effective - We’ve figured out a way to use CPU, Flash, & SATA to provide high performance, high density, low cost per IOP and low cost per GB at the same time in the same solution. © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Transformation in Storage Models with Flash LEGACY MODERN Monolithic Flash in Server All-Flash Arrays Mainstream Applications OLTP SQL Server Exchange Modular Tape, HighCapacity Disk VDI SharePoint Web/File/Print NEED FOR FLASH Real-Time Analytics Archives Efficient hybrid systems that can flexibly vary flash and disk to address all mainstream needs. © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Hybrid Flash-Optimized Cloud Flash Alone Is Not the Solution Flash Disk Random IOPS / £ 30-100x 1x Sequential IO / £ 1x 3x Capacity / £ 1x 20x Early Mature Mature Component Reliability experience Hybrid systems marry flash and disk to deliver the best of both © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. The Nimble Value Accelerate Protect Empower Accelerate Gain higher performance and capacity Back up and restore instantly Protect Deploy with the push of a button Scale to fit unpredictable application needs DR - protect more applications Get proactive wellness & predictive management Empower © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Accelerating Applications with CASL Protect Empower DISK SSD Cache Accelerate UNIVERSAL COMPRESSION: 30-75% SAVINGS Variable-size blocks enable fast inline compression Elimination of read-modify-write penalty allows compression of all applications WRITE-OPTIMIZED LAYOUT: 100x FASTER WRITES Guaranteed coalescing of random writes to sequential stripes; eliminates dependency on spindle speed Coalesced writes to flash increase lifespan by 500% DYNAMIC CACHING: 50x FASTER READS Cache populated intelligently on first write, instantly on cache miss Metadata in cache accelerates all accesses 2-5x better performance / £ 2-5x better capacity / £ ~ 4x reduction in footprint, power and cooling © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Gain High Performance and Capacity Savings Accelerate AVERAGE WRITE LATENCY 0.5 ms “The IOPS we’re achieving with the Nimble array has proven gamechanging for our development team.” – Ethan Erchinger, VP of Operations, Plaxo © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. AVERAGE COMPRESSION 1.98X 1-4 ms Tiered Systems with Flash Disk-based Systems AVERAGE READ LATENCY Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying ESX workloads Empower …without Sacrificing Capacity Faster Performance… 5-10 ms Protect Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying SQL server workloads Actual results across all Nimble customers 0.67 ms “In an IOmeter test of the Community CS220, the Nimble outperformed EMC by a factor of 7 to 10 in IOPS, latency, and Mbps” “With inline compression alone, we’ve freed up 7.48TB of space. Imagine what we can do with that.” – Calvin Levy, Florida Blood Services Scale To Fit with CASL ** Accelerate SCALE COMPUTE/CACHE Scale IOPS and reduce latency by scaling cache and/or compute Protect SCALE CAPACITY SCALE-OUT CLUSTER Scale capacity alone using expansion shelves Scale performance and capacity by adding nodes while managing centrally Scale flexibly and non-disruptively at the lowest incremental cost. © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Empower Nimble Snapshot Efficiency Advantage “90% of restores occur within 30 days of backup.” – Lauren Whitehouse, ESG © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Protect Empower Snapshot Space Usage: 120 100 Usage (GB) Redirect-on-write snapshots consume little space with no performance penalty Enables frequent recovery points Allows for longer retention periods of 30–120 days Accelerate 80 30x 102.1 GB Less space with Nimble 60 40 20 2.9 GB 0 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 Intelligent Data Management Cost-effective, WAN-efficient replication Flexible retention schedules VM and application consistent Accelerate SharePoint, Exchange, SQL Server, Hyper-V, VMware Hypervisor “A major advantage of snapshots over backup software is that they scale very well. No data movement means near instant application recoveries.” – Dave Russell, Gartner © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Protect SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT Empower Simplify Backups, Protect More Accelerate Protect More Often CUSTOMERS WITH HOURLY RPOs Protect Longer CUSTOMERS RETAINING SNAPSHOTS MORE THAN 1 MONTH Protect Empower Protect More WORKLOADS REPLICATED FOR DR 63% 51% 47% Actual results across all Nimble customers running SQL workloads Actual results across all Nimble customers running SQL workloads Actual results across all Nimble customers Actual results across all Nimble customers 10% “The Nimble backups are extremely fast and non-disruptive – they don’t impact our application or storage performance at all.” – Steve Tuscher, Director of Information Technology, Grocery Outlet © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. “With Nimble it takes, literally, a couple clicks of the mouse to establish a backup schedule and meet our data retention policy.” – Mike Brester, System Administrator, Mulvanny G2 Architecture Industry Average (Source: IDC) “When you compare Nimble with other disaster recovery products, it’s very effective and very competitive in terms of pricing, and it’s so easy to use.” – Jared Call, Director of IT, Imagine Learning 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 © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Protect PROACTIVE WELLNESS SECURE REMOTE SUPPORT 5-minute heartbeats and detailed daily telemetry ensure arrays are in top condition Secure tunnel enables fast and easy triage and problem resolution Real-time analysis of entire environment with automated case creation before failure occurs Empower Nimble Support Simplify and Go Beyond Accelerate Easy to Purchase Easy to Maintain NUMBER OF LINE ITEMS PER QUOTE 3 PAGES 2 Line Items “It was really refreshing to see Nimble’s quote was one line item on my purchase order. It just all came bundled in there. All the things I needed and then some.” –Mariyah Epich Serratos, City of Cupertino © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 70% PERCENT OF SUPPORT CASES RESOLVED WITH AUTOMATED SYSTEM Actual results across all Nimble customers “This isn't hard enough! I need thick manuals, on-site field engineers, a complicated support web site, a-lacarte licensing charges, complicated spreadsheets to document configurations, maybe even a storage specialist! Something is very wrong here." –Russell Roberts, Premier Medical Group Protect Empower Easy to Upgrade 99.9% PERCENT OF SYSTEMS UPGRADED WITHOUT DOWNTIME Actual results across all Nimble customers “Just ran the firmware update. It could not have possibly gone smoother. One click to download, one click to update. Watched a live VM during the 8-minute process which never disconnected.” –Kenneth Libeson, Meritage Group Solutions © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Ideal for Exchange Gain Performance Save and Protect MAILBOXES PER DISK 3,333 10-24x Published and verified Microsoft Exchange ESRP benchmark results. Nimble 12 disks for 40,000 mailboxes Equalogic 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 © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 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 Nimble with VMware Deep collaboration across the lifecycle from pre-release development to go-to-market All products certified with ESX and listed on VMware Hardware Compatibility List Reference development platform for VMware VDI architectures One of a small list of VDI solutions certified under the VMware Remote Desktop Program READY © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. VMware + Nimble = Better Performance, Management vCenter Plug-ins to Manage Storage VMware vCenter Server – Create datastores/clones – Manage snapshots/replication/restores – Manage performance and capacity Nimble vCenter plug-ins vStorage API integrations to improve performance, management – – – – Provision VMs, offload clone/copy Set capacity threshold alerts Better error handling VMFS performance improvements VMware vSphere Servers vStorage APIs VMware tools integration to improve protection Quiesce/recover VMs with VM/app consistency VM-consistent B/R READY © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. VMware + Nimble = DR Automation and Testing Site A (Primary) VMware vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager VMware vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager VMware vSphere VMware vSphere Servers Servers Site B (Recovery) Storage Replication READY © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. VDI Challenges and Stresses VDI benefits – – – – – – – Easy, centralized management Improved security Reduced maintenance, easy OS upgrades Fast provisioning Go green: reduced resource consumption Storage and backup consolidation More capable of handling peak loads But… Get Storage wrong and VDI can fail – “Storage costs can consume 40% to 50% of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project's overall costs.” – Jeff Byrne, Taneja Group © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. VDI Demands Responsive Storage VDI Storage Requirements for Hundreds of Desktops 14000 Boot Storm 12000 AV Scans and Patches IOPS 10000 8000 Writes 6000 Reads Workday 4000 2000 0 9:00 AM © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 6:00 PM 10:00 PM Nimble + CommVault = Comprehensive Backup Management Centralized management that allows admins to monitor and manage from a single console Integrated catalog that allows indexing and tracking of snapshot copies across all forms of media Application-aware, granular recoveries of files and objects Compliance and e-discovery support © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Nimble with Microsoft Nimble is a Microsoft Premier Partner Collaboration across development and support – dedicated TAM for Nimble support Nimble storage arrays are Windows logo’ed Support for MSFT iSCSI initiator, MPIO, VSS © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Windows Storage Stack Nimble VSS Hardware Provider Servers Nimble MPIO DSM Nimble with Cisco Nimble is Cisco CDN partner Nimble arrays are UCS certified Collaboration around VDI solutions Cisco Unified Computing System © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Nimble with Citrix XenDesktop/App/Server © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Company Snapshot Founded in January 2008; started shipping in August 2010 Headquartered in San Jose, CA; operations in US, Canada, Europe, and Australia Over 270 employees Rapidly growing installed base of over 700 customers and 1200 deployments Partner eco-system expanding quickly, with over 200+ VARs Strong alliances with VMware, Microsoft, Cisco and CommVault Leadership team brings deep industry expertise and business building experience © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute.
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