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Transforming your Datacenter with Nimble Storage

Arne Polman arne@nimblestorage.com

Twitter: @arnepolman

NIMBLE STORAGE – EMEA

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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 600 employees

Rapidly growing installed base of over 2600 customers and 5000 deployments (500 customers last quarter)

Partner eco-system expanding quickly, with over 800 VARs

Strong alliances with VMware, Microsoft, Cisco and CommVault

Founders brings deep industry expertise from Netapp and DataDomain

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Flash (SSD). Wow. Many IOPS. Such performance.

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Random IOPS / €

Component Flash Disk

Sequential IO / €

Capacity / €

Reliability experience

1x

1x

Early

1x

Mature

30-100x

3x

20x

Mature

30-100x

3x

20x

Mature

Flash versus Disk

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Designing an efficient storage solution with Flash

Flash in the Datacenter

Flash in the Datacenter – Umesh Maheswari

In Storage In Server

Hybrid Flash only

Accelerator Tier

Read cache Write cache

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Accelerating Applications with CASL

LOW LATENCY

Blocks are written to NVRAM and acknowledged (low latency)

NVRAM is mirrored to standby controller

Blocks are compressed realtime using CPU and DRAM

WRITE-OPTIMIZED LAYOUT

Guaranteed coalescing of random writes to sequential stripes

Many frontend IOPS are converting using CPU to few backend IOPS

DIS

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SS

D

Cach

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DYNAMIC CACHING

Cache populated intelligently on first write, instantly on cache miss

Metadata in cache accelerates all accesses

Cache immediately filled on cache miss

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Myth #1: You Need Flash for High Write Performance

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Reality: An intelligent file system + low RPM HDDs can deliver higher

performance than MLC SSDs

MLC

SSD

15K

HDD

7.2K

HDD

7.2K HDD

+ CASL

~3,000 – 3,500

IOPS

200 IOPS

60 IOPS

CS2xx

~1,500 IOPS

CS4xx

~4,500 IOPS

Future

>10,000 IOPS

?????

1 x 7.2K HDD

(with CASL)

=

3 x MLC SSDs

2-3 Shelves of 15K HDDs

=

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Savings by avoiding “Fat provisioning” Expensive

Flash

Myth #2: You Need 100% Flash for Predictable Read

Performance Reality:

– Most environments only need only 3-15% flash to deliver virtually all the reads from flash.

– The ratio actually goes down further as volume sizes grow

– You can of course choose to place 100% of a critical workload in flash in an ultra

conservative scenario (CASL allows completely variable flash/disk ratio)

– However it rarely makes sense to do this for applications such as Exchange, VDI,

SharePoint, file servers, snapshot blocks

Source: InfoSight analytics based on thousands of systems

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Nimble and VMware

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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 HCL

Reference architecture for VMware VDI architectures

One of a small list of VDI solutions certified under the VMware

Rapid Desktop Program

CASL foundation from Mendel Rosenblum (co-founder Vmware)

– The design and implementation of a log-structured filesystem

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VMware

vCenter Server

VMware + Nimble = Better Performance, Management

vCenter Plug-ins to Manage Storage

– Create datastores/clones

– Manage snapshots/replication/restores

– Manage performance and capacity

vStorage API integrations to improve performance, management

– Provision VMs, offload clone/copy

– Set capacity threshold alerts

– Better error handling

– VMFS performance improvements

VMware tools integration to improve protection

Quiesce/recover VMs with VM/app consistency

VMware vSphere

Servers

Nimble vCenter

plug-ins

vStorage

APIs VM-consistent

B/R

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NCM – Nimble Connection Manager

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Nimble + VMware SRM Integration

Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)

Nimble SRA for SRM allows for:

• Discovery

• Test Failover

• Failover

• Re-protect

Nimble brings additional positives:

• Efficient, policy-driven WAN replication

• Space efficient zero-copy clones

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Nimble Storage VDI Benefits

Increased performance and density

– Flash caching supports boot storms

– Sequential layout accelerates writes, supports AV / patching operations

– 10x more desktop density

– Result: 10x more desktop density

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Nimble Storage VDI Benefits

Increased performance and density

– Flash caching supports boot storms

– Sequential layout accelerates writes, supports AV / patching operations

– 10x more desktop density

– Result: 10x more desktop density

Huge storage savings

– 50% inline compression

– Thin provisioning

– Zero-copy clones for master Versioning

– Result: 50-90% space savings

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Nimble Storage VDI Benefits

Increased performance and density

– Flash caching supports boot storms

– Sequential layout accelerates writes, supports AV / patching operations

– 10x more desktop density

– Result: 10x more desktop density

Huge storage savings

– 50% inline compression

– Thin provisioning

– Zero-copy clones for master Versioning

– Result: 50-90% space savings

Certified Reference Architectures

– VMware certified for Rapid Desktop Program

– Solution blueprints and best practices

– Result: Instant deployment, peace of mind OFFSITE

ONSITE

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Scalability

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Traditional Storage

Head unit + Disk Shelves

+ Low cost capacity upgrade

- Must forecast needs up front

- Scaling limited; storage silos

- Data migration is a nightmare

Scaling Today

Scale-Out Storage

CAPACITY PERFORMANCE

Scale-Out Cluster

+ Low upfront cost, simplified management

- Expensive expansion

- Must purchase performance and capacity together

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Scale Cache, Compute, Capacity, Nodes

+ FLASH

AND

CPU

SCALE

CACHE,

COMPUTE P

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FO

RM

AN

CE

+ DISK

SCALE

CAPACITY

CAPACITY

Flexible. Non-disruptive. Cost-effective.

+ NODES

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Proactive Wellness

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Support

Customer Site All Customer Sites

Nimble Support

5-minute heartbeats

Comprehensive

Telemetry Data

Real-time analysis of over

150,000 heartbeats per day

Accelerate Protect Empower

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Replication conformance

to RPO

Alerts for unprotected

volumes

MPIO Misconfiguration

Warnings

Opportunities to free up space

Connectivity and health checks before software upgrades

Support

Customer Site All Customer Sites

Nimble Support

5-minute heartbeats

Accelerate Protect Empower

Proactive wellness,

Automated case creation

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Support

Customer Site All Customer Sites

Nimble Support

5-minute heartbeats

Accelerate Protect Empower

Proactive wellness,

Automated case creation

Secure remote support

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InfoSight | Performance

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InfoSight | Capacity Usage Reporting

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InfoSight | Executive Dashboard

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Products

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Nimble Storage CS-Series and ES1-Series Products

Storage Shelves ES1-H25 ES1-H45 ES1-H65

Raw Capacity 15 TB 30 TB 45 TB

Effective Capacity(1)

11 – 22 TB 23 – 45 TB 34 – 68 TB

Flash Capacity 160 GB 300 GB 600 GB

IO Modules Dual hot-swappable 2x 6Gb SAS-2 controllers

Notes:

1: Effective capacity is usable capacity after no to 2x (or 50%) compression; typical range: 30% to 75%

2: The CS420 model is available in CS420-X2 and CS420-X4 options only.

Controllers CS210 CS220/G CS240/G CS260/G CS420/G(2) CS440/G CS460/G

Controllers High Performance in Active/Standby Extreme Performance in Active/Standby

Base Raw

capacity 8TB 12TB 24TB 36TB 12TB 24TB 36TB

Add on shelves Add 1 shelf Add up to 3 shelf

Effective

Capacity(1) 4-9 TB 8 – 16TB 17 - 33TB 25 - 50TB 8 – 16TB 17 - 33TB 25 - 50TB

Flash

Capacity—

Base/Max 160 GB

320 GB / 2,400 GB

640 GB / 2,400 GB

1,200 GB / 2,400 GB

640 GB / 2,400 GB

640 GB / 2,400 GB

1,200 GB / 2,400 GB

Network 4 x 1GbE 6 x 1GbE or 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE (G models)

Controller

Storage

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