Nimble Storage – Success Story Nick Furnell
Welcome
Less than 50 Less than 100 More? How many VMs do you run?
30 VMs 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader 30 VMs 3 Hosts, Single CPU Local DC Head OfficeISP Co-Lo
How many VMs do you run? Head OfficeISP 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 OfficeISP Co-Lo Hitachi AMS year old
Proposed replacement SAN... AMS200Proposed Replacement
2013 Keogh Report Implications AMS200Proposed Replacement
Needed Flexibility AMS200Alternative Replacement
Disaster Strikes mid-project 30 VMs 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader Head Office Latency <20ms +100ms
Disaster Strikes mid-project 25 VMs 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader Head Office Latency
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 LayoutFlexible Nimble Layout Images (iSCSI) Unstructured Data Groupwise Payroll SQL Backups Veeam Cache
Nimble – Manual vVols? Nimble C220 iSCSI Volume Compression & Caching OFF Snapshotting ON Head OfficeISP Co-Lo Hitachi AMS2100 Traditional VMDK Disk Windows DFS Manages file changes
Nimble - Volume Summary
My Favourite Nimble Features? Flexibility UpgradeabilityInfoSight
Flexibility – Volume Creation VolumeCompressionCaching Protection Profile Block Size A OnOffHourly4k B Off Daily8k C On Weekly16k D OffOnOff32k
Flexibility – Volume Creation VolumeLimit Access Volume Warning Snapshot Quota Snapshot Warning A ESX90%Unlimitedoff B ESX80%Unlimitedoff C Backup80%20%10% D Linux95%Unlimited20%
Upgradeability – Hot Plug Tray
InfoSight – Whats going on? Remote Access Engineer ViewGlobal Monitoring
InfoSight – Performance Past & Future
InfoSight – Want more detail?
InfoSight – Impact of Information
InfoSight – Under the hood
Questions about my Experience?
Nimble – Success Story