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Welcome and Agenda

Brian J Avery Territory B us iness Manager

C isco S ystems, Inc.

[email protected]


§ Introduction

§ W hat is the C is co C us tomer E ducation S eries ?

§ Introducing C is co Unified C omputing

§ G et Nimble with Nimble S torage and UC S

§ C onclus ion

Welcome and Agenda

Brian J Avery Territory B us iness Manager

C isco S ystems, Inc.

[email protected]


§ C C E is an educational s es s ion for current and pros pective C is co cus tomers

§ Des igned to help you unders tand the capabilities and bus ines s benefits of C is co technologies

§ Allow you to interact directly with C is co s ubject matter experts and as k ques tions

§ Offer as s is tance if you need/want more information, demons trations , etc.

What Is the Cisco Customer Education Series?

Unified Computing Introduction Brian J. Avery, Territory Business Manager - C isco S ystems

Free Your Mind!


Cisco Unified Computing System Reinventing the Datacenter


Hold up. Cisco sells servers??

Data Center Economics

Source: Gartner, Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”

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Data Center Economics

Source: Gartner, Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”

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Source: IDC #250082, “Worldwide Server, Power and Cooling, and Management and Administration Spending 2014–2018 Forecast,” August 2014

of Overall IT Spent on OpEx

(People, SW, and Facilities)


Cisco UCS: The Right Solution at the Right Time

CISCO UCS

Virtualization

Network & Storage Access Compute

Application Centricity

Operational Simplicity

Platform for IT Innovation

Reduce the Complexity that Drives OPEX Get the Most Out of Virtualization Automate and Move Faster Get ready for cloud

Customer Asks in 2009

Help me:

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Cisco Unified Computing System A Differentiated/Revolutionary Approach

Simpler Architecture § Networking with fewer components § Lower cost and eas ier scaling

§ F ewer management touch points

Faster, More Flexible § Automated deployment/provis ioning § Unification leads to reduced complexity

§ Management via a s ingle interface

Higher Performance § B rings out the best of x86 architecture § Optimized resource utilization for compute,

networking, and management

No Compromises § No trade-offs for function § E nhanced des ign capability

§ Designed for the future, today § B etter T C O/R OI

Cisco UCS: Unified Infrastructure, Scalability, and Management Automation


UCS Management § Reduced time to deploy new apps § Reallocate resources quickly and

efficiently

§ R educed infrastructure § C ohesive resource pools

Unified Fabric

Compute With NO Compromise § Blade and rack servers in a s ingle UC S

managed domain § P hys ical and virtual workloads

Virtualized I/O § Improved scalability and flexibility § Increased performance

Unified Computing Product Innovation Innovation to Improve Applications •

X ML AP I S T ANDAR D AP Is


Fabric Extenders

UCS B- Series Blade Servers

UCS C- Series Rack Servers

Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect

The easiest, most intelligent and efficient way to connect and manage computing in the data center.

One Connection LAN, S AN and Management

Physical and Virtual

Rack and Blade

Cisco SingleConnect Technology




Unified Management with UCS Manager Blade and Rack Servers Managed a Cohesive Resource Pool

C -S eries R a ck O ptimized S ervers

B -S eries B la de S ervers

UCS Service Profile Unified Device Management

Network Policy

Storage Policy

Server Policy

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT A SINGLE UNIFIED SYSTEM

FOR BLADE AND RACK SERVERS

A Major Market Transformation in Unified Server Management

Benefits of UCS Manager and Service Profiles for Both Blade and

Rack-Optimized Servers

Add Capacity Without Complexity

UCS Manager


Seamless Infrastructure Management

L4-7 Services Virtualization

New! Integrated application containers for secure workload provisioning

New! Application Centric Infrastructure configuration

New! Open developer kit for ecosystem acceleration

Update! UCS Central integration to easily manage all UCS and UCS Mini domains together

Storage

UCS Director

Nexus Product Family

Unified Computing System

Automation Powered by UCS Director

Quality Enforce IT Best Practices

Velocity Rapidly Deploy Applications

Simplicity Ready for Use in Hours

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Cost Categories Impacted by Cisco UCS Tr

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UC

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Unified F abric • R adical infras tructure simplification

• E fficient s caling

• High performance

S ingleC onnect, Networking, C abling,

and W arranty P ower and C ooling

S ervers and W arranty

Unified Management • E mbedded device management

• S elf-integrating

• S tateles s

• Automated

• P rogrammable

P rovis ioning and Ongoing Adminis tration

S ys tems Management S oftware


Cisco Unified Computing System Proven Value and Over 38,800 Customers World Wide

“It’s given us a competitive edge.”

Reduction in Provisioning

Times

83% Reduction of Management

Costs

67% Reduction of Power and

Cooling Costs

49% Cabling

Reduction

77% World-record Performance Benchmarks

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“Our C is co Unified C omputing S ys tem decis ion is a game-changer.” Wes Wright C IO, S eattle C hildren’s

Andrew Henderson C IO, ING Direct

“W ith C is co UC S , we can adapt much more quickly to us er demand.” Mark Adams VP Information T echnology, HireR ight

S ources: “C isco UC S : C ha nging the E conomics of the Da ta center, December 2014” C ustomer C a se S tudies, C isco UC S P erforma nce B enchma rks

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UCS Market Share Growth X86 Server Blade Market Share

1 S ourc e: ID C W orldwide Quarterly S erver Trac ker, 2014Q3, D ec ember 2014, V endor R evenue S hare

# 1 in USA (40.5%) 1 # 2 Worldwide and growing 27% YoY1

UCS Momentum

• 38,800+ Unique Customers • 18,000+ Repeat Customers • 85%+ of Fortune 500

UCS # 1 in Only Five Years

0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0%

OracleSugon

HuaweiOthers

SGINEC

FujitsuHitachi

DellIBM

CiscoHP

UCS # 2 with 27.4 %

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SGI

Dell

IBM

HP

Cisco

UCS # 1 with 40.5%

US

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Nimble Storage SmartStack Solutions Overview May 2015 – Jon Shipley Senior Account Executive

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Converged Infrastructure

§ Integrated set of compute, storage, and networking components » Tested and proven in a variety of configurations and workloads » Focused on specific workloads

§ Increasing popular way to procure IT infrastructure » Simple, low risk approach » Speed up deployments


Kaon v-Rack Demo


Nimble Storage SmartStack

§ Customer Benefits » Speed deployments with pre-validated solutions » Scale seamlessly as needs grow » Simplify with unified management

§ Solutions for a variety of workloads » Desktop and Server Virtualization » Databases and Business Applications » Messaging and Collaboration

Pre-validated converged infrastructure solution combining best of breed compute, networking, storage and software


SmartStack with Cisco UCS

Validated Workloads on Nimble Storage SmartStack

Business Applications Private Cloud VDI Data Protection

UCS B-Series & C-Series Servers with UCS Manager & Director

Cisco Network Switches

Nimble Storage CS-Series

Disaster Recovery

Snapshots And/or

Backup +

Database

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en-us/default.aspx



SmartStack Unified Management with UCS Director

§ Integration with UCS Director enables: » Unified end-to-end visibility of Converged Infrastructure Components » Workflow automation » Workflow publishing

§ Benefits » Speed time to provisioning » Reduce manual errors and OpEx » Enforce policies and processes » Enable self-service

Centralized management from a single pane of glass


Support for SmartStack

§ Nimble SmartStack Integration Support » [email protected] or Option 7 from 1-877-3Nimble » Coordinate third-party vendor support » No additional charge

§ Cisco Solution Support for Critical Infrastructure » Cisco will offer issue management and solution expertise » Will coordinate with Nimble and other vendors for support » Contact [email protected] for pricing, varies by size of deployment

§ All configurations validated and supported by participating vendor partners » Product Certifications » Hardware Compatibility Lists

§ Backed by TSAnet as global alliance framework that enables fast-track technical support cooperation between several partners

mailto:[email protected]



Redesigned from the Ground Up

1980s 1990s 2000s Today

DAS Monolithic Storage

Modular Storage

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Adaptive Flash

Providing Our Customers with the Industry’s Most Efficient Flash Storage Platform


Company Snapshot

§ Founded in January 2008 § December 2013 IPO (NYSE:NMBL) § Headquartered in San Jose, CA

» operations in US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia

§ Over 800 employees Rapidly growing installed base of over 5,500 customers

Strong alliances with Cisco, VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and Oracle

Leadership team brings deep storage industry expertise and business building experience


Current Storage Solutions Involve Compromises

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Performance Intensive

Workloads

Capacity Intensive

Hybrid Arrays

Archival

Flash Only Arrays

Flash on Serv er

High-Performance Computing

Cheap and Deep

Perfo

rman

ce

Capacity


Eliminating the Performance and Capacity Tradeoff

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Performance Intensive

Workloads

Capacity Intensive

High-Performance Computing

Cheap and Deep

Archival

Flash on Serv er

Adaptive Flash Platform

Perfo

rman

ce

+ Ca

pacit

y

© 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute.

Nimble’s Adaptive Flash Platform

CASL Flash-optimized file

system software

InfoSight Cloud-based

management/support Flash

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What’s New: Products & Features (As of Q4 FY2015)

Fibre Channel Connectivity

§ 2, 4 and 6-port 16Gb FC available for CS300, CS500 and CS700 Arrays

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Higher-Density Drives

§ 4TB HDD § 1.6 TB SSD

§ All-Flash shelf now with up to 25.6TB flash

Add up to 6 Disk Expansion Shelves

§ NEW ES1-H85 Expansion Shelf offers up to 90TB effective capacity § Effective capacity of up to 606TB per array § for CS300, CS500 and CS700 only


The Nimble Portfolio: More Powerful, Top to Bottom

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CS210/215

§ Best values for smaller deployments

§ Up to 18K IOPS

CS300* § Best GB/$ for

capacity

§ 30K IOPS

CS500* § Best

price/performance and IOPS/$

§ 90K IOPS

CS700* § Extreme performance and

consolidation

§ 125K+ IOPS

All-Flash Shelf § Expand cache up to 32TB per

system (CS700 and CS500)

§ Supported on CS300/500/700, as well as CS4xx arrays

The Adaptive Flash Platform

§ Performance & Capacity

§ Scale-to-Fit

§ Integrated Protection

§ Proactive Wellness

Flash

* Fibre Channel Enabled


Storage-On-Demand: Utility-based Pricing Model

§ Unique, Service Level-Based Pricing Model § Don’t Pay For What You Don’t Use

» Simple ¢/GB/month price based on USED monthly capacity

§ Never Run Out, Never Pay For Unused » 10%+ Buffer Capacity always included » If your usage goes down, so does your bill

§ No Lock-In » 12-month commit then month to month » 40TB Minimum » Grow and shrink usage on the fly

Storage On-Demand Costs

Actual Usage

Time

Cost

s

Service Levels: § Platinum

§ Gold

§ Silver

§ Bronze

High Performance

Capacity-Optimized


Cluster up to 4 of ANY Nimble Storage CS-Series Arrays

Eliminate Storage Silos

Scale to enterprise levels of performance and capacity: § 500K+ IOPS

§ Up to 166 TB Flash

§ Over 2PB Capacity

§ Fibre Channel or iSCSI

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Performance and Capacity


Nimble Storage CASL Architecture: Write-Optimized Layout

CASL is a CPU-driven architecture § Performance decoupled from spindle speed/count § In-Line Compression

» Fast in-line compression for variable application block sizes decreases footprint of inbound write data by 75%

§ Random IO written sequentially » Once there are enough variable-sized blocks to form a full write stripe,

CASL writes the data to disk

» If the data being written is active data, it is also copied to SSD cache for faster reads. Written data is protected with triple-parity RAID

§ Thin-Provisioning and Efficient Capacity Utilization » Capacity is only consumed as data is written » CASL efficiently reclaims free space on an ongoing basis, preserving

write performance with higher levels of capacity utilization


Nimble Storage CASL Architecture: Write-Optimized Layout

§ Write Performance » By sequentializing random write data,

CASL’s writes to disk are orders of magnitude faster than other storage systems’ random writes

» The CS700 delivers double the write IOPS of a single MLC flash drive with a 7,200-RPM disk

RAID-3P No RAID


Nimble Storage CASL Architecture: Cache-Accelerated Reads

Cache-Accelerated Read Performance § Active data is dynamically cached in flash

» Delivers sub-ms read latency and high throughput across demanding enterprise applications

§ Adaptive Flash » CASL leverages flash as a true read cache, as opposed to a

bolt-on tier » Nimble arrays easily adapt to changing workloads » CASL allows flash to flexibly scale for higher performance

§ Intelligent Caching » CASL populates the cache with recently written hot data, along

with its associated metadata. » Only compressed data in full erase stripes is written to cache,

which substantially increases the endurance of the flash cells » Authoritative copy of data resides on disk, so no overhead of

parity or RAID within cache


Snapshots

Flash to house application data

Overprovisioning

RAID

Eliminating Inefficiencies with Adaptive Flash

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Flash Only Arrays Nimble Adaptive Flash


CASL Doesn’t Overprovision Flash

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0%

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30%

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50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Exchange VDI WindowsFile Server

SQL Server Sharepoint Oracle OtherDatabase

Other Flash OnlyArray

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king S

et Si

ze

Source: InfoSight analytics based on 1,000’s of systems


Lower TCO: Staples

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Customer needs / challenges

§ Minimize power and cooling costs

§ Reduce storage capacity costs

§ Reduce complexity

“ EMC VMAX was too complex. The costs to deploy and manage were not sustainable. Nimble has given us much more flexibility with primary storage and data protection and a much more resilient infrastructure—all at a much lower cost.

” —Shaun Butler

IT Platform Lead, Staples

Results

reduction in storage costs

9x reduction of

datacenter footprint

30x savings in data protection costs

50% impact to performance

Zero


Faster Performance and Higher Capacity

Dis

k-ba

sed

Sys

tem

s 5-10 ms

0.45 ms

AVERAGE READ LATENCY

AVERAGE WRITE LATENCY

Actual results across all Nimble customers

Tier

ed S

yste

ms

w

ith F

lash

1-4 ms

0.38 ms

“With inline compression alone, we’ve freed up 7.48TB of space. Imagine what we can do with that.”

– Calvin Levy, Florida Blood Services

AVERAGE COMPRESSION

Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying SQL server workloads

2.1X

“We replaced half a rack of our previous storage with only 9U of Nimble. Frankly, I’ve never seen any other vendor deliver the kind of performance that Nimble does with the same set of hardware. We were seeing all-flash performance without the corresponding expense.“

-- Jeremy Balter, Sr. Systems Administrator, LANDesk

Actual results across all Nimble customers


Scale-to-Fit


Scale Performance Independent of Capacity with Nimble Storage

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PERF

ORM

ANCE

CAPACITY

SQL Server

Real-time Analytics

VDI

Oracle

Exchange

SharePoint

Backup, DR

Archival, cheap and deep

CS500 90K IOPS

CS700 125K IOPS AFS Up to 25.6TB of flash

CS300 30K IOPS

§ Add CPU cores to scale overall throughput » Upgrade controllers

seamlessly across entire product family

§ Add SSDs to boost read performance » Up to 6.4TB of flash per array » All-Flash Shelf adds 25.6TB


Easily Scale Capacity

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PERF

ORM

ANCE

CAPACITY

SQL Server

Real-time Analytics

VDI

Oracle

Exchange

SharePoint

Backup, DR

Archival, cheap and deep

CS500 90K IOPS


CS300 30K IOPS

§ Seamlessly expand capacity » Add up to 6 disk expansion

shelves per array

106TB 370TB

*with CS300, CS500, CS700

640TB *with CS300, CS500,

CS700


Nimble Storage Scale-to-Fit: Scale Out

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PERF

ORM

ANCE

CAPACITY

CS500 90K IOPS


CS300 30K IOPS

ü Cluster up to 4 of any Nimble Storage arrays

ü Simple configuration § Automated host connection

management § Dynamic load-balancing

and automated capacity rebalancing

ü Linear performance scaling

ü Automatic data migrations

106TB 370TB

*with CS300, CS500, CS700

640TB *with CS300, CS500, CS700

4 Node CS700 Cluster Up to 500K IOPS

2.5+ PB Capacity

*multi-array data striping with iSCSI only

Scale up, scale deep and scale out with zero downtime


Integrated Protection


What If … ?

§ Data protection did not impact production infrastructure?

§ You could easily achieve recovery point objectives of 15 minutes?

§ You could recover data in minutes?

§ You could roll back data to any day in the last 3 months?

§ You could be proactively notified of any problems?

§ It was all included and integrated as part of your storage array?

Storage-based snapshots enable aggressive RPOs and RTOs, while eliminating impact on production infrastructure

?


Transformation in Data Protection Model

D2D + Replication Snapshots + Replication Tier 1 Tier 2

No Tapes

Primary

Backup

Disaster Recovery

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§ No backup window § Rapid recovery

Tier 3 (+Dedupe)

Tier 3 (+Dedupe)


D2D + Replication Snapshots + Replication Fast, cost-effective hybrid storage Tier 1 Tier 2 Primary

Backup

Disaster Recovery

Complementing Data Protection: Copy Data Management

Space efficient clones

Tier 3 (+Dedupe)

Tier 3 (+Dedupe)

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§ No backup window § Rapid local recovery § Cost-effective, simple

DR

§ Instantaneous zero-copy clones (e.g., for test and dev instances)


Case Study: DMB Associates

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Key issues

§ Reduced performance of business critical applications

§ Nightly backups bleeding into business hours

§ Needed to reduce data center footprint

$40K

in OpEx savings per year

better nightly backup time

6X

Results

reduction in datacenter footprint

300%

Applications running at optimum levels

Nimble solution

Cisco SmartStack, Nimble CS260 and CS260G


80% Resolved

automatically

90% Support cases

detected

99.999% Proven uptime

Proactive Wellness: Powered by InfoSight

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Nimble Storage InfoSight Rethinking the Storage Lifecycle


InfoSight: Cloud-Based Support and Management

§ Between 12M and 70M sensors per array, daily

§ Data collected every 5 minutes and on-demand

Comprehensive Telemetry

§ Systems modeling

§ Correlations, trending, and projections

Analysis and Automation

Leveraging pervasive network connectivity and big data analytics to automate support and enable cloud-based management

§ Vast majority of cases opened by Nimble!

§ Secure, on-demand system access

Proactive Wellness

§ Monitoring and alerting

§ Visualization, capacity planning, performance management

Storage Management SaaS Offering

Nimble Approach Customer Benefits


PINPOINT INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEMS § Bad NICs, cables § MPIO misconfigurations § Inconsistent jumbo

frame settings

What InfoSight Can Do

PREDICT AVAILABILITY ISSUES § Find the cause of

software anomalies § Forecast when anomalies

could cause availability issues

ENSURE A RELIABLE DATA PROTECTION STRATEGY § Multi-level alerting § Comprehensive

dashboard view

FIND THE PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECK § Cache and CPU sizing

recommendations § Drill-down metrics

InfoSight Engine


Expands the InfoSight value of providing actionable intelligence to better manage your storage resources: a cornerstone of the Nimble Adaptive Flash platform

InfoSight: Per-VM Monitoring

§ Agent-less ESX and VM Level stats collection § Identify performance

bottlenecks at the ESX hypervisor, VM and storage Layers § Point in time latency drill

down to identify VM “noisy neighbor”


Primary Benefits

§ Gain visibility into performance and latency on a per-VM or per-datastore basis

§ Simplify operations between virtualization and storage administration – no more finger pointing § Avoid unnecessary

expense of storage upgrades to solve performance problems


InfoSight Powers Storage-on-Demand

• InfoSight tracks capacity usage and accurately generates monthly invoices

• InfoSight automates delivery of additional performance and capacity before it is needed

Wellness Assets Support Data Protection Dashboard Performance Volumes Capacity


Data Protection With Nimble Storage: Simple Workflows

§ Simplified workflows for: » Snapshot schedule and retention

» Application-consistent snapshots

» Replication and replica retention

» Multiple schedules with flexible retention policies


Nimble SmartStack


Other Alliances

Nimble Storage SmartStack Validated Reference Architectures

Snapshots / Backup

Disaster Recover

y

Data Protection

UCS B-Series and C-Series Servers with UCS Manager Cisco Network Switches

Servers and

Network Infrastruct

ure

Nimble Storage CS-Series

VDI and Server Virtualization

Business Critical Applications and Database

Private Cloud

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SmartStack Converged Infrastructures



Revolutionizing Enterprise Storage

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Supplemental Material


Nimble Storage CS-Series Arrays: Behind the Front Bezel

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F CS-Arrays

§ 2, 4


§ 2, 4


Nimble Storage CS-Series Arrays: Rear Panel

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F CS-Arrays

§ 2, 4


§ 2, 4


Nimble Storage Product Family Comparison Value Family Base Performance High Performance Extreme Performance

PRODUCT CS210 CS215 CS300 CS500 CS700

Base Raw capacity 8TB 12TB 12TB to 72TB

Effectiv e Capacity 4TB to 8TB 8TB to 16TB 8TB to 100TB

Flash Base/Max 160GB to 640GB 320GB to 1,200GB 640GB to 3,200GB 1,200GB to 6,400GB 3,200GB to 6,400GB

All-Flash Shelf N/A N/A Add 1 shelf (up to 25.6TB flash)

Add-On Disk Shelf Add 1 shelf Add 1 shelf Add up to 6 expansion disk shelv es

Effectiv e Capacity (w/ max shelv es) Up to 98TB Up to 106TB Up to 640TB

4-node Cluster Up to 384TB / 2.56TB Flash

Up to 424TB eff. capacity/ 4.8TB Flash Up to 2.56PB effectiv e capacity (Up to 166.4TB Flash)

TOTAL NICs 2 2 3

iSCSi Protocol Options 4 x 1GbE

2x 1 GbE (on board) AND 2x Dual 1GbE or

1x Dual 10GbE SFP+ Optical or

1x Dual 10GbaseT

2x 1GbE (on board) AND up to

2x Dual 10GbaseT (optional) or 2x Dual 10GbE SFP+ (optional)

Fiber Channel Options N/A N/A 1 Dual-Port 16Gb FC NICs 1 or 2 Dual-Port 16Gb FC NICs 2 or 3 Dual-Port 16Gb FC NICs


Positioning the Nimble Portfolio

Model Target Environments Performance Upgradable to

CS210/215 iSCSI only

Best value solutions for smaller environments: Remote office, departments of larger organizations.

18K IOPS (CS215) CS300/ 500/ 700 (CS215 only)

CS300 Fibre Channel or iSCSI

Offers best GB/$ for balancing capacity and performance: midsize IT org’s, Microsoft apps, smaller VDI or virtual server deployments

30K IOPS CS500 / 700


Best price/performance and IOPS/$ platform. Ideal for larger scale deployments and IO-intensive workloads like larger VDI, Oracle and other databases.

90K IOPS CS700


Highest performance and scalability. Built for consolidating multiple workloads with aggressive performance demands.

125K IOPS N/A

All-Flash Shelf (cache expansion)

Ideal for workloads with large working sets of hot data or high levels of cache churn, or consolidation environments with multiple performance-intensive applications: VDI, OLTP, DW/BI

N/A Supported on CS300/500/700, also on CS4xx


Case Study: sevenP

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Customer needs / challenges

§ Service Provider with growing performance demands due to expanding customer base

§ Datacenter and energy costs too high

§ Complex management

Results

reduction in datacenter footprint

75% overall savings

40% reduction in power

consumption

80%

“ By moving data to the Nimble arrays, our storage IOPS limitations simply went away. ”

—Gert Lunenborg Director of IT, sevenP


An Established Partner

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Conclusion


Next Steps

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