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Nimble Scale to Fit
Patrick Stack – Senior Storage Engineer
Matt Rourke – Enterprise Account ExecutiveSlide2
Why start a new Storage Systems Company?
Christensen suggests that successful companies can put too much emphasis on customers' current needs, and fail to adopt new technology or business models that will meet customers' unstated or future needs; he argues that such companies will eventually fall behind.Slide3
Nimble Storage Is:
A public company
10x faster than traditional storage in less space
Scalable: From 12TB
to
800TB
without downtime.Leverages current technology such as Multi-Core CPU’s, Flash Drives and a proprietary file system. All Inclusive SoftwareInfoSight: A revolutionary support portal for predictive analytics of data usage and growth. Easy to use: A Modern GUI and the option for self installation.Reliable: 99.9995 uptime for trailing twelve months.Slide4
Building Storage for 2014 Slide5
Cloud
Hybrid
Flash-Optimized
MODERN
Flash in Server
All-Flash Arrays
Transformation in Storage Models with Flash
Efficient hybrid systems that flexibly leverage
flash and disk address all mainstream needs.
Tape, High-
Capacity Disk
Modular
Monolithic
LEGACY
Archives
OLTP
SQL Server
Exchange
VDI
SharePoint
Web/File/Print
Mainstream
Applications
Real-Time
Analytics
NEED FOR FLASHSlide6
Hybrid systems marry the best attributes of flash and disk.
Fundamental to this is flash
must be treated as
flash
, not as a fast HDD
Flash
Media
Workload
Capacity
NL-SAS – 15k rpm
SATA – 7.2k rpm
Sequential
1x
Flash-Only Is Not the Solution
Cost
High
Medium
Low
$$$
Random*
Mixed
$$
$
Mature
Mature
Early
Reliability
* Random writes can cause flash wearSlide7
Why Do Customers Buy Nimble? Higher
Performance than Tier 1 – at the Cost of Tier
3
Legacy Tier 1 (Disk-only)
5 – 15 ms
latency
$3k - $6k / TB
Enterprise Features
Snap, Replication, Clone
Flash Only
< 1 ms latency
$8k - $15k+ / TB
Enterprise Features?
Nimble Storage
< 1 ms latency
$2k - $3k /TB
Enterprise Features
Snap, Replication, Clone
99.999% Uptime
Legacy Tier 1 (Disk + SSD)
2 – 15 ms latency
$5k - $8k / TB
Enterprise Features
Snap, Replication, CloneSlide8
Responsive flash cache accelerates reads with
no RAID overhead
Serialized writes eliminate
need for high RPM spindles
25-100k IOPS at sub-2ms latency
2-5x More Performance/$
Engineered for Efficiency
2-5x More
U
sable Capacity/$
Integrated Data Protection
Instant thin snapshots with no performance penalty
Block sharing clones
WAN-efficient replication of compressed snapshots
Snapshot
r
etention
for months, not days
H
igh capacity disk
Always-on compression, 2:1 real world
High ratio of usable to raw capacity
Arrays measured in “effective capacity”
DATA PROTECTION
PERFORMANCE
CAPACITY
OPERATIONS
CASL
Operational Efficiency
Data sciences-based proactive support (InfoSight
)Cloud based monitoring
Predictive analytics–usage, growthReal time data analysisInfosight delivers: 90% of cases are auto created and 80% of those are auto closed. Slide9
CASL -
Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout
32K
8K
16K
4K
4K
Data Written to NVRAM (1GB)
Mirrored and application acknowledgement
Data Moves to 12 or 24 GB of DRAM (workbench)
CRC check sums & in-line LZ4 compression (1.5-2X)
Variable-size
blocks
(unique) enable fast
inline compression, saving
30-75%
Elimination
of read-modify-write penalty allows compression of all applications
Random data coalesced into 4.5MB sequential stripes
Sequential Stripes written to SATA
Maximize write performance of low-cost, high-density HDDs (100X)
Performance decoupled from disk speed & spindle count
Cache worthy data written
to
SSD sequentially
Converting
random writes to sequential writes minimizes “write amplification”, allowing the
use of
MLC SSDsNo RAID overhead: Using flash as a read cache avoids the overhead of RAID
Data on flash is compressed, saving spaceMetadata in cache accelerates all
readsSSD’s are 100% cache for faster Reads (50X)Constant light-weight sweeping ensures constant sequential stripes
12/24G DRAM
12/24G DRAM
1G NVRAM
1G NVRAM
(12) SATA
1TB/2TB/3TB
RAID 6+1
(4) MLC SSD’s
80G/160/320G
Adaptive Flash Cache
All Data
Random Data
Snapshots
30+ days
Active Controller
Passive
ControllerSlide10
Nimble Storage CS-Series Controller Shelf
Controllers
CS210
CS220/G
CS240/G
CS260/G
CS420/G
(2)
CS440/G
CS460/G
Controllers
High Performance
(~20K IOPS)
Extreme
Performance
(~65K IOPS)
Base Raw capacity
8TB
12TB
24TB
36TB
12TB 24TB
36TB Effective Capacity(1)
4-9 TB
8 – 16TB
17 - 33TB
25 - 50TB8 – 16TB
17 - 33TB25
- 50TB
Add onShelvesAdd 1 shelf
Add up to 3 shelves
Flash Capacity—Base/Max
160 GB
320GB to 1,200GB
640GB
to2,400GB1,200GBto 2,400 GB
640GB
to
1,200GB
640GB
to
2,400GB
1,200GB to
2,400GB
Network
4 x 1GbE
6 x 1GbE or 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE (G
m
odels)
Controller B
Controller A
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 onlySlide11
All Inclusive SW Features – No Licensing Costs
11
Dynamic
caching
Write
-optimized data layout
App
-aligned block
size
Universal compression
Thin provisioning
Instant-snapshots WAN-efficient replication
Zero-copy
clones
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App
-integrated
backup/profiles
Non-disruptive scale-to-fit
Scale-out clustering Proactive wellness
Non
-disruptive upgrades
Remote secure support
Unified administration Multipath/connection manager Slide12
All This While, We Are Partnering
HCL certifications; VAAI, SRM, vCenter Integrations
First storage vendor in Rapid Desktop Program
Joint VDI reference architectures (e.g., branch office)
VMware
UCS Certification
SmartStack: Pre-validated VMware-Cisco-Nimble stack
Cisco
HCL Certifications; Exchange Solution Reviewed Program
VSS, MPIO Integration
Microsoft
CommVault
Integration through Intellisnap Connect Program
Citrix Ready Certification
SmartStack
: Pre-validated
Citrix-
Cisco-Nimble
stack
CitrixSlide13
InfoSight: Storage Lifecycle Simplified
Peer
Insights
Forecasting
&
Planning
Monitoring
& Reporting
Maintenance
& Support
Alerting
Proactive Wellness
Infosight
Portal
NimbleConnect
Connect with and learn from users, experts worldwide
Be part of a vibrant online community
Learn from real-world deployment data
Proactive monitoring
Predictive support
Shrink time to problem resolution
Secure, cloud-based portal
Detailed monitoring & reporting
Proactive planning & forecasting as workloads changeSlide14
Performance
Detailed view of IOPS and latency behaviors
Accurate recommendations for CPU and cache needs
Wellness
Capacity
Volumes
Performance
Data Protection
Dashboard
Assets
Support
With InfoSight, I’m confident I can not only pinpoint storage performance bottlenecks, but know exactly what is necessary to resolve them.
– MulvannyG2, global architectural firm ranked among top 50 worldwide