1. Nimble Storage – VMUG Success Story Nick Furnell

2. Welcome

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

4. 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, Single CPU Local DC Head OfficeISP Co-Lo

5. How many VM’s do you run? Head OfficeISP Co-Lo

6. Less than 20TB Less than 50TB More? How much Storage do you have?

7. How old is your SAN Infrastructure? Hitachi AMS200 5 years old Due for replacement Head OfficeISP Co-Lo Hitachi AMS2100 1 year old

8. Your Christmas wish list 2012?

10. 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

11. Proposed replacement SAN AMS2100Proposed Replacement

12. Keogh Report Implications AMS2100Proposed Replacement

13. Needed Flexibility AMS2100Alternative Replacement

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

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

16. Nimble - Testing 30GB vMotion Move

17. Compression? Snapshots? Caching? Block Size? Single 6TB Volume Nimble - Traditional Volumes?

18. Data Repository? Structured by Services? Something else? How do you view Storage?

19. Nimble – per Volume based Profiles Traditional LayoutFlexible Nimble Layout Images (iSCSI) Unstructured Data Groupwise e-mail Payroll SQL Backups Veeam Cache

20. 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

21. Nimble - Volume Summary

22. My Favourite Nimble Features? Flexibility UpgradeabilityInfoSight

23. InfoSight – What’s going on?

26. Questions about my Experience?

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28. Nimble – VMUG Success Story Twitter: @nickfurnell http://goo.gl/uiHuVy