Nimble Storage – VMUG Success Story Nick Furnell

Welcome

Less than 50 Less than 100 More? How many VM’s do you run?

25 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, Single CPU Local DC Head OfficeISP Co-Lo

How many VM’s 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

Your Christmas wish list 2012?

Playing Solitare on a Grand Scale! Hitachi AMS200 iSCSI 8TB FC & SATA Head OfficeISP Co-Lo Hitachi AMS2100 Fibre Channel 8TB SAS & SATA New SAN Faster More Capacity

Proposed replacement SAN AMS2100Proposed Replacement

Keogh Report Implications AMS2100Proposed Replacement

Needed Flexibility AMS2100Alternative Replacement

Disaster Strikes mid-project 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader Head Office Latency <20ms +100ms

Disaster Strikes mid-project 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader Head Office Latency

Nimble - Testing 30GB vMotion Move

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 ON 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

InfoSight – What’s going on?

Questions about my Experience?

Nimble – VMUG Success Story

Nimble – VMUG Success Story