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Introducing Nimble Storage: Flash-Optimized Hybrid Storage Engineered For Maximum Efficiency

Rich Fenton, Senior Systems Engineer

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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 Asia UK office opened in October 2011 (Rivington Street, London) Over 400 employees

Leadership team brings deep industry expertise and business building experience (NetApp/Data Domain)

Rapidly growing installed base of over 1100+ customers and 2000+ deployments

Strong alliances with VMware, Microsoft, Cisco and CommVault

Partner eco-system expanding quickly, with over 400 VARs


Storage Architectures–The Engine Powering Storage

Architected to use disk only; overlaying flash on top results in partial solution

Today’s Storage Architectures

Purpose-built, Performance Hybrid

Designed from the ground up to leverage the best of flash and disk

Eliminates compromise between performance, capacity, and data management


Hybrid systems marry flash and disk to deliver the best of both

Random IOPS / £

Component Flash Disk

Sequential IO / £

Capacity / £

Reliability experience

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What Is Hybrid Storage?


Accelerating Applications with CASL

Accelerate Protect Empower

2-5x better performance / £ 2-5x better capacity / £ ~ 4x reduction in footprint, power and cooling

UNIVERSAL COMPRESSION: 30-75% SAVINGS Variable-size blocks enable

fast inline compression

Elimination of read-modify-write penalty allows compression of all applications

WRITE-OPTIMIZED LAYOUT: 100x FASTER WRITES Guaranteed coalescing of random

writes to sequential stripes; eliminates dependency on spindle speed

Coalesced writes to flash increase lifespan by 500%

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Cache populated intelligently on first write, instantly on cache miss

Metadata in cache accelerates all accesses

DYNAMIC CACHING: 50x FASTER READS

4K, 8K, 16K, 32K Blocks1000’s of IOs

4K, 8K, 16K, 32K Blocks11 IO Write Stripe 4K, 8K,

16K or 32K

Blocks


Exchange 2010

SQL / Oracle/ Sharepoint

Exchange LogExchange 2003

VMwareESX

32K 8K 16K4K 32K 8K 16K4K 4K4K

Variable Block Agility and Application Policies


Scale To Fit: Optimised for You

Accelerate Protect Simplify

SCALE COMPUTE

Scale write & read IOPS by scaling compute

SCALE CAPACITY

Scale capacity alone using expansion shelves

Scale flexibly and non-disruptively at the lowest incremental cost.

SCALE CACHE

Reduce latency by scaling cache


Gain High Performance and Capacity Savings

Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying ESX workloads

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AVERAGE READ LATENCY

AVERAGE WRITE LATENCY

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“In an IOmeter test of the CS220, the Nimble out-

performed EMC by a factor of 7 to 10 in IOPS, latency, and Mbps”

Community “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

2X

…without Sacrificing Capacity


“The IOPS we’re achievingwith the Nimble array has proven game-changing for our development team.”– Ethan Erchinger, VP of Operations, Plaxo


Average Real-World Compression Figures


Nimble Snapshot Efficiency Advantage

Redirect-on-write snapshots consume little space with no performance penalty

Enables frequent recovery points

Allows for longer retention periods of 30–120 days

Production Exchange 2010 deployment; 20GB Exchange InfostorUsed DAG to mirror database to EqualLogic and Nimble CS-Series Captured daily snapshots on both systems for ten days


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Nimble Competitor

30xLess spacewith Nimble

“Most recoveries are for data which is less than a month old, often a granular file or object level and where recovery time is paramount, making disk-based protection mechanisms the right choice for almost everyone.”

– Jason Buffington, ESG


Snapshot Efficiency - Granularity

Retain hundreds of snapshots for frequent recovery points Improved RPO and RTO

Nimble snapshots consume the least space due to fine snapshot granularity (& compression)

NimbleTraditional Array

Snapshot granularity:

Nimble

Snapshot granularity:

Traditional array

Individual, compressed blocks(4k, 8k, 16k, 32k)

Large pages/extents(256K, 512K, 4MB, 15MB)


Average Real-World Snapshot Deltas


Intelligent Data Management

Cost-effective, WAN-efficient replication

Flexible retention schedules VM and application consistent Zero-copy clones for Test/Dev or VDI Hypervisor

SharePoint, Exchange, SQL Server, VMware, Hyper-V


SNAPSHOT

SNAPSHOT

SNAPSHOT

“A major advantage of snapshots over backup software is that they scale very well. No data movement means near instant application recoveries.”

– Dave Russell, Gartner


Simplify Backups, Protect More


Actual results across all Nimble customers running SQL workloads

63%

Protect More Often

CUSTOMERS WITH HOURLY RPOs



Protect More

WORKLOADS REPLICATED FOR DR

51%

10%Industry Average (Source: IDC)

CUSTOMERS RETAINING SNAPSHOTS MORE THAN 1 MONTH

47%

Actual results across all Nimble customers running SQL workloads

Protect Longer

“The Nimble backups are extremely fast and non-disruptive – they don’t impact our application or storage performance at all.”

– Steve Tuscher, Director of Information Technology, Grocery Outlet

“With Nimble it takes, literally, a couple clicks of the mouse to establish a backup schedule and meet our data retention policy.”

– Mike Brester, System Administrator, Mulvanny G2 Architecture

“When you compare Nimble with other disaster recovery products, it’s very effective and very competitive in terms of pricing, and it’s so easy to use.”

– Jared Call, Director of IT, Imagine Learning


VMware Storage Connectivity Options

Nimble has NO preference of storage mapping methods for to vSphere.The ONLY consideration required is the way application data is backed up/replicated.


Gain Peace of Mind and More


SECURE REMOTE SUPPORT

Nimble Support

INFOSIGHT – PROACTIVE, DATA ANALYTIC SUPPORT

PUSH-BUTTON DEPLOYMENT

5-minute heartbeats and detailed daily telemetry ensure arrays are in top condition

30 million sensors per array

Real-time analysis of entire environment with automated case creation before failure occurs

Cloud based portal for management

All-inclusive features

Built-in application profiles eliminate manual tuning

Extensive integration with hypervisors and applications

Non-disruptive software upgrades

Secure tunnel enables fast and easy triage and problem resolution


Infosight – “Big Data” Cloud Analytics & Reporting


Managing Internal Storage and Expansion Shelves


Ideal for Exchange


Gain Performance

MAILBOXES PER DISK Published and verified Microsoft Exchange ESRP benchmark results. 3,333

312 294 187 139

Equalogic32 disks for

10,000 mailboxes

EMC34 disks for

10,000 mailboxes

NetApp64 disks for

12,000 mailboxes

Compellent72 disks for

10,000 mailboxes

Nimble12 disks for 40,000 mailboxes10-24x

Save and Protect

COMPRESSION CUSTOMERS RETAINING SNAPSHOTS FOR >1 MONTH1.3x

48%Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying Exchange 2010

Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying Exchange 2010

“We started out deploying SQL workloads primarily on the Nimble array. Very quickly we realized we had

enough performance headroom to consolidate our very demanding Exchange 2010 deployment on the same array.”

–Ron Kanter, IT Director, Berkeley Research Group

“With Nimble, we were able to run 3 snapshot backups a day and replicate offsite twice daily. Exchange users notice no performance degradation. Backups take minutes, not hours. Snapshot backups require very little space and are recoverable and mountable locally and remotely. A mailbox or Exchange system can be recovered in literally minutes. Best of all, we can regularly test our procedures for Disaster Recovery.”

–Lucas Clara, IT Director, Foster Pepper LLC


vCenter Plugin – Nimble Array tab

Nimble Array tab in vCenter: Shows datastores, associated Nimble volumes, IOPS, throughput, compression & capacity

usage. “Create New Datastore” button creates, configures & presents a new volume on Nimble array

directly from vCenter (including setting correct performance profile, ACLs, protection, volume mapping to vSphere, & vSphere datastore creation)


vCenter Plugin – Manage Datastore

"Manage Datastore" from vCenter

– Resize, delete or clone Datastore n-times

– Edit snapshot/replication schedules

– Restore Datastore from snapshot

Showing cloning datastore

entirely from vCenter UI


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


VDI Demands High-Performance Storage

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Traditional Storage Requires 60+ Drives

VDI Storage Requirements for Hundreds of Desktops

9:00 AM 6:00 PM 10:00 PM

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Boot Storm

Workday

AV Scansand Patches


Boot Storm Example

2,000 desktops20 minutes boot

50M I/O disk ops1200 seconds

~42K IOPS


Nimble Storage SmartStack for VDI with Cisco and VMware: 1,000 Users Validated Reference Architecture

Nimble Storage CS220G-X2 (3RU)

Cisco UCS B-Class Blade Servers

VMware View

Published a joint end-to-end smart stack reference

architecture with Cisco and VMware

– Efficiently deliver cost-effective virtual desktops

without a large upfront investment

– Lower risk of deployments and speed up deployments

– Scale to fit VDI needs by scaling performance and

capacity independently

SmartStack for VDI with Cisco and VMware: 1,000

desktop configuration

– Cisco 8x UCS B230 M2 Servers with Fabric Extender

– Nimble Storage CS220G-X2

– VMware View 5.1 and vSphere 5.0


650 User VMware View Deployment – Real World


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 (15K– 20K IOps) Extreme Performance (35K – 60K IOps)

Base Raw capacity 8TB 12TB 24TB 36TB 12TB 24TB 36TB

Add on shelves Add 1 shelf Add up to 3 additional shelves

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 /

1,200 GB640 GB / 2,400 GB

1,200 GB /

2,400 GB

640 GB / 1,200 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


My IOMeter Test Results

• 1x Windows 2008 VM, 2x GbE NIC

• 70/30 Read/Write, 4K Blocks, 32 Queue Depth

• CS210 – 8x NL-SAS & 2x SSD

• 20K IOPS+• 1-4ms Latency


Large Service Provider Customer Example

Nimble Storage CS460-X2

Before Nimble After Nimble

6U of rack space for storage

2x racks for storage


Summary

High capacity disk Always-on compression High ratio of usable

to raw capacity

2-5x More Usable Capacity/$ Responsive flash cache

accelerates reads with no RAID overhead

Serialized writes eliminate need for high RPM spindles

2-5x More Performance/$

Thin snapshots with no performance penalty

Retention for months, not days WAN-efficient replication

Instant Backups & Restores

Scale just performance, just capacity, or both

Scale-out cluster eliminates storage silos

Scale with zero downtime

Scaling at the Lowest Incremental Cost

DATA PROTECTION

PERFORMANCE

CAPACITY

SCALING

CASL

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