Nimble Storage – VMUG Success Story

Nick Furnell

Welcome

How many VM’s do you run?

Less than 50 Less than 100 More?

How many VM’s do you run?

25 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader Head Office 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, Single CPU Local DC ISP Co-Lo

How many VM’s do you run?

Head Office ISP Co-Lo

How much Storage do you have?

Less than 20TB Less than 50TB More?

How old is your SAN Infrastructure?

Hitachi AMS200 5 years old Due for replacement Head Office Hitachi AMS2100 1 year old ISP Co-Lo

Your Christmas wish list 2012?

Your Christmas wish list 2012?

Playing Solitare on a Grand Scale!

Hitachi AMS200 iSCSI 8TB FC & SATA Head Office Hitachi AMS2100 Fibre Channel 8TB SAS & SATA New SAN Faster More Capacity ISP Co-Lo

Proposed replacement SAN AMS2100 Proposed Replacement

Keogh Report Implications AMS2100 Proposed Replacement

Needed Flexibility AMS2100 Alternative Replacement

Disaster Strikes mid-project 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader Head Office

Latency

<20ms +100ms

Disaster Strikes mid-project 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader Head Office

Latency

Nimble - Testing 30GB vMotion Move

Nimble - Traditional Volumes?

Compression?

Snapshots?

Caching?

Block Size?

Single 6TB Volume

How do you view Storage?

Data Repository? Structured by Services? Something else?

Nimble – per Volume based Profiles Traditional Layout

Images (iSCSI) Unstructured Data Groupwise e-mail Payroll SQL Backups Veeam Cache

Flexible Nimble Layout

Nimble – Manual vVols?

Windows DFS Manages file changes Nimble C220 iSCSI Volume Compression ON Snapshotting ON Head Office Hitachi AMS2100 Traditional VMDK Disk ISP Co-Lo

Nimble - Volume Summary

My Favourite Nimble Features?

Flexibility Upgradeability InfoSight

InfoSight – What’s going on?

InfoSight – What’s going on?

InfoSight – What’s going on?

Questions about my Experience?

Nimble – VMUG Success Story

Twitter: @nickfurnell http://goo.gl/uiHuVy

Nimble – VMUG Success Story

Twitter: @nickfurnell http://goo.gl/uiHuVy