vVols with Adaptive Flash and InfoSight Analytics 1 Manchester Virtualisation User Group Rich Fenton (Nimble North Senior Systems Engineer)

Nimble’s Adaptive Flash Platform CASL Flash-optimized file system software InfoSight Cloud-based management/support Flash Integrated Protection Rapid backup and recovery Non-disruptive, flexible scaling to massive scale Scale-to-Fit Peak system health and availability Proactive Wellness Performance and Capacity Significantly better performance/$ and capacity/$ Nimble Storage - Install base of customers and deployments

How CASL Optimizes Writes CASL eliminates write performance dependency on spindle speed – Random write data is organized into a sequential data block – Single stripe writes to disk CASL dramatically increases usable capacity of both disk and flash – Variable block-sizing – Fast in-line data compression (~2X) – Optimized write layout to disk – No RAID or parity data copied to SSD Random write data 16K4K8K4K16KIN-LINE  COMPRESSION  Write stripe to disk in 11 IOPS If data is ‘hot’, it is cached for fast read 2X data compression Coalesce into a single stripe

How CASL Optimizes Reads Cache populated intelligently on first write – Data re-cached on first miss Enables highly stable, sustained performance Adapts rapidly to workload changes CASL dynamically caches hot data for fast read performance >90% Cache Hit Rate Metadata in cache used for fast lookup on disk Active Data

Space Efficiency »Un-duplicated by design »Inline compression »Variable block sizes as small as 4 KB »Stored on cost-effective capacity disk »No space reserves Performance Efficiency »Redirect-on-write implementation »CASL enabled read + write performance »Metadata stored in flash Nimble Snapshot Efficiency

»Longer retention »Cost-effective data protection »Aggressive recovery points »Fast recovery times Space Efficiency Performance Efficiency Nimble Snapshot Efficiency Benefits

Nimble Storage Snapshot Advantages Max Snapshots per Volume 1,000 Compared with Dell EqualLogic, EMC VNX/2, and NetApp FAS 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 2.9 GB GB 30x Less space with Nimble Snapshot Space Usage (GB)

Aggressive RPOs, Longer Retention Recovery Point Objectives of 1 Hour or Less % of customers Snapshot Retention of 3 Months or More % of customers

InfoSight Analytics Demo 9

Scaling Support 10 Vendor Support Customers Q&A Diagnostics Logs ? # ! Existing Approach

InfoSight: Cloud-Based Management 11  3§0M sensors per array, daily  Data collected every 5 minutes and on-demand  Systems modeling  Correlations, trending, and projections Leveraging pervasive network connectivity and big data analytics to automate support and enable cloud-based management  Vast majority of cases opened by Nimble  Secure, on-demand system access Proactive Wellness  Monitoring and alerting  Visualization, capacity planning, performance management Storage Management SaaS Offering Nimble ApproachCustomer Benefits

vVols and SPBM on Nimble Storage Overview Data Protection: Offload snapshots and replication to the Nimble array – at VM level – Space and CPU efficient snapshots, retain for months Automate using a rich scheduler – Efficient replication – VM-level restores Intelligent Provisioning: Provision using Nimble Clones and Application Policies – Instantaneous space and CPU efficient clones of VMs – Provisioning of virtual volumes according to Nimble Storage best practices using our out-of-box Application Policies Security: Encryption at virtual volume granularity – Encryption can be enabled or disabled at virtual disk level Monitoring and Troubleshooting : Leverage InfoSight analytics – Leverage advanced analytics to monitor and troubleshoot end-to-end VM performance

Nimble Storage Array Group ESXi vCenter VASA APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS Introduction to vVols 13 VASA Provider VASA Provider

vVols Demo 14

Questions ? 15 Rich Fenton (Nimble North Senior Systems Engineer)