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True Efficiency & Converged Storage for Virtual Server and Desktop Environments Glenn Stewart - Systems Engineer Frank Moll – Eastern Canada Sales Manager. Company Snapshot. Company Snapshot Founded in January 2008; Started shipping in August 2010 Headquartered in San Jose, CA - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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True Efficiency & Converged Storage for Virtual Server and Desktop Environments
Glenn Stewart - Systems Engineer
Frank Moll – Eastern Canada Sales Manager
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Company Snapshot
Company Snapshot‒ Founded in January 2008; Started shipping in August 2010‒ Headquartered in San Jose, CA‒ 170 employees and rapidly growing‒ Operations in US, Canada and Europe
Record-Setting Momentum Since Launch‒ Revenue ramp faster than any storage array startup‒ Employee base has quadrupled in the last 12 months‒ Rapidly growing installed base of over 400 customers
Foundations for Innovative Technology‒ Leadership team with deep technical expertise and industry experience‒ Top tier investors :
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The Founding Premise – Capacity/Performance @ Odds
Can we optimize all of these
simultaneously?Data
ProtectionEase of
administration
Performance optimization
Capacity optimization
Technology Enablers1. Flash – a dramatic change!!
2. High density, low cost drives
3. Multi-core CPUs
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The Nimble Storage Paradigm
Performance ANDCapacity Efficiency
Radically Better Data Protection
Pain-FreeOperations
Nimble Storage
True efficiency.
Converged storage.
Today
Server
VMVMVM
VM
– OR –
Server
VMVMVM
VM
Primary
Backup
DisasterRecovery
Applications
HighRPM
Drives
HighCapacityDrives
HighCapacityDrives
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Nimble Optimized for Virtual Environments
Big performance and density gains Consolidate performance hungry apps Dramatically increase VM densityHuge storage savings 2–4x compression Zero copy clones saves up to 95% in
space Thin snapshots require 50x–100x less
space than full copiesNative stack integrations vStorage APIs enable rapid
provisioning Instant clones from gold images
available through vCenter plug-ins
VMware vSphere
vStorage APIs for Array Integration
Nimble vCenter Plug-ins
Performance ANDCapacity Efficiency
Better DR and Backups
Pain-FreeOperations
API
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Nimble VMware Integration
Features Installed Components Description
SRM integration Nimble SRA Allows integration and interoperability with VMware Site Recovery Manager
iSCSI Connection Management Nimble Connection Service (CIM provider)
Nimble PSP
Allows efficient connection management to Nimble arrays in a VMware environment.Allows efficient path management to Nimble arrays in a VMware environment.
VAAI – WRITE-SAME Nimble OS (built-in) Enables WRITE-SAME VAAI API for fast disk creation.
VAAI – ATSVAAI – UNMAP
Nimble OS (built-in) – Q2/3 Nimble OS (built-in) – Q2/3
Enables Atomic test and hardware lockingEnables reclaiming of deleted block data
VAAI – Copy Offload Nimble OS (built-in) – Q2/3 VAAI – Enables hardware-assisted storage copy
vCenter integration vCenter plugin Enables Nimble-specific plug-in within vCenter for creating and managing datastores on Nimble arrays.
VMware synchronized snapshots (formerly known as VMware NPM)
Nimble OS (built-in) Enables application consistent snapshots within VMware environments.
VASA Integration Nimble VASA Provider – Q2/Q3 VAAI – Enables vSphere VASA APIs
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VDI Challenges and Stresses
User experience demand
Cost per desktop
Impact on existing virtualization infrastructure
Proper sizing
Growth
Tuning
Protection (Backup and DR)
Administration (Overcoming complexity)
VDI Infrastructure
Hypervisor
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VDI Demands Responsive, High-Performance Storage
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
WritesReadsIO
PS
Boot Storm
Workday
AV Scansand Patches
VDI Storage Requirements for Hundreds Desktops
9:00 AM 6:00 PM 10:00 PM
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Inline Compression
DRAM
NVR
AM
NVR
AM
Variable-size blocks enable fast inline compression, saving 30-75%
Unique ability to compress data even for performance-sensitive applications
NIMBLE ARRAY
Nimble’s CASL Architecture
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High-Capacity Disk Storage
Inline Compression
DRAM
All Data
NVR
AM
NVR
AM
NIMBLE ARRAY
Nimble’s CASL Architecture
CASL delivers very high write performance by always writing data sequentially to disk: – HDDs are poor at random IO
but good at sequential I/O– CASL always organizes
random writes into large sequential stripes
Using low-cost, high-density HDDs coupled with compression lowers costs substantially
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High-Capacity Disk Storage
Inline Compression
DRAM
All Data Large Adaptive Flash Cache
NVR
AM
NVR
AM
Cache-worthyData
NIMBLE ARRAY
Nimble’s CASL Architecture
CASL uses Flash SSDs as a cache to accelerate reads
CASL is over 10 times more cost-effective in using flash:– MLC flash: Converting random
writes to sequential writes minimizes “write amplification”, allowing the use of MLC SSDs
– No RAID overhead: CASL uses flash as a cache, thus avoiding the overhead of RAID protection
– Compression: Data on flash is compressed, saving space
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High-Capacity Disk Storage
Inline Compression
DRAM
All Data Large Adaptive Flash Cache
NVR
AM
NVR
AM
Cache-worthyData
NIMBLE ARRAY
Nimble’s CASL Architecture
CASL facilitates hundreds of backups in the same system:– Space efficient backups– Backup windows completely
eliminated as backups are near-instantaneous
– Restore time is in seconds Local replication facilitates
instantaneous failover in the event of a system failure
WAN efficient replication facilitates disaster recoveryIntegrated Backup
DR Site
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Major Space and Power Reduction
30U replaced by 3U
• Replaced 30u of storage • with 3u of Nimble from a • space perspective.
• On the same CS240 we were able to cut processing time of a Informix DB from 1hr45min to 42 min!
• DB was VMotioned over from a EMC Cx310 with 40 300GB FC 4GB drives to a Nimble CS240.
• This is just one example of what our customers are experiencing
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A Better Paradigm for Backup, DR, and Data Recovery
Hypervisor “By capturing virtual desktops via snapshot technology, the complete state of the desktop is protected. This also enables multiple recovery options, including physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-physical and virtual-to-virtual.” – Lauren Whitehouse, ESG
Cost-effective replication and cascaded snapshots (vaulting) simplifies DR as well as failover
Application and VM consistent
Performance ANDCapacity Efficiency
Radically Better Data Protection
Pain-FreeOperations
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Pain-Free OperationsPerformance AND
Capacity EfficiencyRadically Better Data Protection
Pain-FreeOperations
Easy to configure and use
Proactive wellness: beyond support
Deep application integration
Single SKU for all features
Intuitive management; Simple UI
Non-disruptive software upgrades
Real-time telemetry and health checks
Automated alerting and case creation
Configurable secure remote access
Deep VMware and Microsoft Integration
Application consistent data protection
Pre-configured application profiles
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Observations & Results
Workloads are “interesting”‒ IOPS is not a best measure – latency (user experience) is better‒ IO sizes across the board – 4K to 64K+ (mostly random)‒ read/write ratios trend toward 50/50 (or as much as 20/80)‒ producing workloads is tough – agreeing on results – tougher‒ variances can be problematic
boot storms, login storms, scans, updates, backups steady state – light user -> heavy user ??
Test environments are tricky to manage‒ managing large “real” workloads‒ effect of hypervisor configuration (server, network etc.)‒ Order of Magnitude workload shift
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”Tearless” VDI Storage Performance & Capacity Requirements
VDIRequirements
Controllers
Backup
SSD*
15k SAS
SATA
Swap - 500 GB
OS Base Image250 GB
User Data10,000 GB
User Profiles1,000 GB
OS Replicas1,500 GB
Required IOPS10,000
Nimble Storage Tiered Storage
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Nimble Tuned for VDI
Volume Tunable RecommendationVolume Size Example 500GB-1TB
(enough to hold 25-50 Desktops at ~20GB/desktop)
Performance Policy – Block Size 4K(default = VMware)
Performance Policy - Compression Yes
Performance Policy - Caching Yes,
Volume Reserve 10-20%
Snapshot Reserve 10-20%(only on critical user volumes – assume Desktop volumes only snapped during IT ops)
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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‒ Result: 10x more desktop density
VDI Infrastructure
Hypervisor
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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‒ Result: 10x more desktop density
Huge storage savings ‒ 50% inline compression‒ Thin provisioning‒ Zero-copy clones for master versioning‒ Result: 50-90% space savings
VDI Infrastructure
Hypervisor
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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
Improved data protection‒ Take frequent snapshots with no
performance impact‒ Efficient VDI storage replication‒ Result: complete, affordable backup
and disaster recovery
VDI Infrastructure
Hypervisor
OFFSITE
ONSITE
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Nimble Products
Model Usable Capacity
Capacity with Compression
# of SSD Drives
# of SATA Drives Controllers
Active Network Ports
CS210CS220CS240CS260
4 TB8 TB
16 TB24TB
Approx. 8TBApprox. 16TBApprox. 32TBApprox. 48TB
2 (80GB)4 (80GB)4 (160GB)4 (320GB)
8 (1TB)12 (1TB)12 (2TB)12 (3TB)
DualDualDualDual
4666
CS220-10GCS240-10GCS260-10G
8 TB16 TB24TB
Approx. 16TBApprox. 32TBApprox. 48TB
4 (80GB)4 (160GB)4 (320GB)
12 (1TB)12 (2TB)12 (3TB)
DualDualDual
444
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Canadian Clients
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Learn More
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For an onsite/Webex briefing, contact [email protected]
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