Transforming your Datacenter with Nimble Storage
Phil Davies, Senior Systems Engineer, UKI
George Bonser, Sales, UKI
@NimbleStorage
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Empower
Nimble Snapshot Efficiency Advantage
“90% of restores occur
within 30 days of backup.”
– Lauren Whitehouse, ESG
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nimble with Citrix XenDesktop/App/Server
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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 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
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