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Nimble Storage – VMUG Success Story
Nick FurnellSlide2
WelcomeSlide3
Less than 50 Less than 100 More?
How many VM’s do you run?Slide4
How many VM’s do you run?
25 VM’s
3 Hosts, single CPU
Local DC +
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25 VM’s
3 Hosts, Single CPU
Local DC
Head Office
ISP Co-LoSlide5
How many VM’s do you run?
Head Office
ISP Co-LoSlide6
Less than 20TB Less than 50TB More?
How much Storage do you have?Slide7
How old is your SAN Infrastructure?
Hitachi AMS200
5 years old
Due for replacement
Head Office
ISP Co-Lo
Hitachi AMS2100
1 year oldSlide8
Your Christmas wish list 2012?Slide9
Your Christmas wish list 2012?Slide10
Playing Solitare on a Grand Scale!
Hitachi AMS200
iSCSI
8TB
FC & SATA
Head Office
ISP Co-Lo
Hitachi AMS2100
Fibre
Channel
8TB
SAS & SATA
New SAN
Faster
More
CapacitySlide11
Proposed replacement SAN
AMS2100
Proposed
ReplacementSlide12
Keogh Report Implications
AMS2100
Proposed
Replacement
Solid
Storage
Great BackupSlide13
Needed Flexibility
AMS2100
Alternative
Replacement
Hybrid
SolutionSlide14
Disaster Strikes mid-project
25 VM’s
3 Hosts, single CPU
Local DC +
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Head Office
Latency
<20ms
+100
msSlide15
Disaster Strikes mid-project
25 VM’s
3 Hosts, single CPU
Local DC +
AutoLoader
Head Office
Latency
Help!Slide16
Nimble - Testing
3
0GB vMotion
MoveSlide17
Compression?
Snapshots?
Caching?
Block Size?
Single 6TB Volume
Nimble - Traditional Volumes?Slide18
Data Repository? Structured by Services? Something else?
How do you view Storage?Slide19
Nimble – per Volume based Profiles
Traditional Layout
Flexible Nimble Layout
Images (
iSCSI
)
Unstructured Data
Groupwise
e-mail
Payroll
SQL Backups
Veeam
CacheSlide20
Nimble – Manual vVols?
Nimble
C220
iSCSI Volume
Compression ON
Snapshotting ON
Head Office
ISP Co-Lo
Hitachi AMS2100
Traditional
VMDK Disk
Windows DFS Manages
file changesSlide21
Nimble - Volume SummarySlide22
My Favourite Nimble Features?
Flexibility
Upgradeability
InfoSightSlide23
InfoSight – What’s going on?Slide24
InfoSight – What’s going on?Slide25
InfoSight – What’s going on?Slide26
Questions about my Experience?Slide27
Nimble – VMUG Success Story
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Nimble – VMUG Success Story
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