Faster and Easier with Built-in Data Protection Ryan Troy
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12/13/13
Faster and Easier with Built-in Data Protection
Ryan Troy – NorthEast System Engineering Manager
Nimble Fact Sheet
Founded in January 2008
Headquartered in San Jose, California (Silicon Valley)
Operations in US, Canada, Europe, and PacRim
Successful IPO Dec’13, NYSE: (Up From $21 to $40+)
What We Do:
#1 Build the world’s most efficient storage
#2 Make it the most simple storage to use
#3 Give customers the most upgrade options
#4 Simplify Backup and DR
#5 Provide the best support in the industry
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How is Nimble Different?
– We developed a Filesystem called CASL that allows
us to write to disk faster than flash
» We can sustain 50,000 4k IOPS with 12 disks
– We include all features bundled with the Array
» Snapshot, Replication, Compression, many more…
– Our install takes less than 1 hour
» Our storage is very simple to use
– Built-in data retention and offsite rotation
» Simple way to replace or augment backup
» “Keep 500 hourly copies locally and 100 remotely”
– Low cost expansion options
» Add a disk shelf for capacity
» Add Flash for more read performance
» Add CPU for more write performance through a low-cost
controller upgrade
» Scale-out our arrays with true storage clustering
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CASL: First Filesystem to Optimize Disk & Flash
1. Application-Tuned Block Sizes
»
Match the volume block size to the application block size
» Benefit: Better performance and Better snapshots
2. Compress & Consolidate Small Blocks
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With LZ Compression we achieve 2:1 compression
» Benefit : 50% less IO to disk
» Benefit: Reduces storage footprint by 50%
Package 4K-32K writes into 512K writes to disk
» Benefit: 100 times less operations to disk
3. Sequential Write Anywhere Layout
»
Large sequential write stripes
» Benefit: Eliminates random writes to disk
4. No RAID Penalty
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No IO penalty for RAID6
No Modify-Write RAID penalty
5. Offload 98% of read workload from disk to Flash
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Virtually 50% of the disk workload eliminated
Disk is primarily only used to write sequential stripes
» Benefit: Disk no longer the bottleneck
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The Best Investment in the Industry
SCALE
CACHE,
COMPUTE
Flexible. Non-disruptive. Cost-effective.
PERFORMANCE
+ FLASH
AND CPU
+ NODES
SCALE
CAPACITY
+ DISK
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CAPACITY
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A new approach to performance and scale
Incumbents
Scale Performance (IOPS)
Compression
Add Spindles
1x
Add CPU
Slows
3x
Speeds
Response Time
5-20 ms
Scaling Storage
Early
limited
Data Protection
Nimble
Sell More
20x
<1 ms
scale
to fit
Mature
Mature
Built-In
Designing a storage file system from the ground up has many advantages
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Gain Peace of Mind and More
PUSH-BUTTON
DEPLOYMENT
All-inclusive
features
Built-in application profiles eliminate
manual tuning
Extensive integration with
hypervisors and applications
Non-disruptive software upgrades
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PROACTIVE
WELLNESS
5-minute
heartbeats and
detailed daily telemetry ensure
arrays are in top condition
Real-time analysis of entire
environment with automated case
creation before failure occurs
SECURE REMOTE
SUPPORT
US Based Support
All Tier3 and VMware
trained
Secure tunnel
enables fast and
easy triage and
problem resolution
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Select New York Based Clients
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InfoSight Engine: Data Collection
Comprehensive
telemetry
Log files, sensors,
status
5-minute heartbeats
>30M sensor values per array per day