IP Expo 2012 Storage Lab Presentation - Nimble Storage

Transforming your Datacenter with Nimble Storage
Phil Davies, Senior Systems Engineer, UKI
George Bonser, Sales, UKI
@NimbleStorage

© 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute.

Why?

Why did you build it? What did our Founders have in mind?

“We wanted to create the first solution to solve the capacity problem and
performance problem in the same storage system”. “This was the foundation
of why we started the design”.

This enables us to collapse primary storage and backup storage on the same
storage platform.

Cost Effective - We’ve figured out a way to use CPU, Flash, & SATA to provide
high performance, high density, low cost per IOP and low cost per GB at the
same time in the same solution.


Transformation in Storage Models with Flash

LEGACY MODERN

Flash in Server
Monolithic Real-Time
Analytics All-Flash Arrays

NEED FOR FLASH
Mainstream
Applications
OLTP VDI Hybrid
Modular Flash-Optimized
SQL Server SharePoint
Exchange Web/File/Print

Tape, High- Archives Cloud
Capacity Disk

Efficient hybrid systems that can flexibly vary
flash and disk to address all mainstream needs.

Flash Alone Is Not the Solution

Component Flash Disk
Random IOPS / £ 30-100x 1x

Sequential IO / £ 1x 3x

Capacity / £ 1x 20x

Reliability experience Early Mature
Mature

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


The Nimble Value
Accelerate Protect Empower

Accelerate

 Gain higher performance  Back up and restore  Deploy with the push
and capacity instantly of a button
Protect
 Scale to fit unpredictable  DR - protect more  Get proactive wellness
application needs applications & predictive management

Empower


Accelerating Applications with CASL

Cache
SSD
DISK
UNIVERSAL COMPRESSION: WRITE-OPTIMIZED LAYOUT: DYNAMIC CACHING:
30-75% SAVINGS 100x FASTER WRITES 50x FASTER READS
 Variable-size blocks enable  Guaranteed coalescing of random  Cache populated intelligently on
fast inline compression writes to sequential stripes; first write, instantly on cache miss
eliminates dependency on
 Elimination of read-modify-write spindle speed  Metadata in cache accelerates
penalty allows compression of all accesses
all applications  Coalesced writes to flash increase
lifespan by 500%

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

Gain High Performance and Capacity Savings
Faster Performance… …without Sacrificing Capacity

5-10 AVERAGE AVERAGE AVERAGE
ms READ LATENCY WRITE LATENCY COMPRESSION

1-4 1.98X
ms Actual results across all
Disk-based Systems

Nimble customers deploying
SQL server workloads

Tiered Systems
Actual results across all Actual results across

with Flash
Nimble customers all Nimble customers
deploying ESX workloads

0.5 ms 0.67 ms
“The IOPS we’re achieving “In an IOmeter test of the “With inline compression
Community CS220, the Nimble out-
with the Nimble array has proven game- alone, we’ve freed up
changing for our development team.” performed EMC by a factor of 7 7.48TB of space. Imagine what we can
– Ethan Erchinger, VP of Operations, Plaxo to 10 in IOPS, latency, and Mbps” do with that.”
– Calvin Levy, Florida Blood Services

Scale To Fit with CASL **

SCALE COMPUTE/CACHE SCALE CAPACITY SCALE-OUT CLUSTER

 Scale IOPS and reduce  Scale capacity alone  Scale performance and
latency by scaling cache using expansion shelves capacity by adding nodes
and/or compute while managing centrally

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


Nimble Snapshot Efficiency Advantage
 Redirect-on-write snapshots
Snapshot Space Usage:
consume little space with
120
no performance penalty
 Enables frequent
recovery points
100

80
30x
Less space
102.1 GB

with Nimble

Usage (GB)
 Allows for longer retention 60
periods of 30–120 days
40

20
“90% of restores occur 2.9 GB
within 30 days of backup.” 0
Nimble Competitor
– Lauren Whitehouse, ESG Production Exchange 2010 deployment; 20GB Exchange Infostor
Used DAG to mirror database to EqualLogic and Nimble CS-Series
Captured daily snapshots on both systems for ten days

Intelligent Data Management
 Cost-effective,
SharePoint, Exchange, SQL
WAN-efficient replication Server, Hyper-V, VMware
 Flexible retention schedules
 VM and application consistent
Hypervisor

“A major advantage of
snapshots over backup
software is that they
scale very well.
No data movement SNAPSHOT

means near instant SNAPSHOT

application recoveries.” SNAPSHOT

– Dave Russell, Gartner

Simplify Backups, Protect More

Protect More Often Protect Longer Protect More

CUSTOMERS WITH CUSTOMERS RETAINING WORKLOADS
HOURLY RPOs SNAPSHOTS MORE THAN REPLICATED FOR DR
1 MONTH

63%
51% Actual results across
47% all Nimble customers

Actual results across all Actual results across all Actual results across
Nimble customers running Nimble customers running all Nimble customers
SQL workloads SQL workloads
Industry Average
10% (Source: IDC)

“The Nimble backups are extremely “With Nimble it takes, literally, a “When you compare Nimble
fast and non-disruptive – they don’t impact couple clicks of the mouse to establish a backup with other disaster recovery products, it’s very
our application or storage performance at all.” schedule and meet our data retention policy.” effective and very competitive in terms of pricing,
– Steve Tuscher, Director of Information – Mike Brester, System Administrator, and it’s so easy to use.”
Technology, Grocery Outlet Mulvanny G2 Architecture – Jared Call, Director of IT, Imagine Learning

Gain Peace of Mind and More

PUSH-BUTTON PROACTIVE SECURE REMOTE
Nimble
DEPLOYMENT WELLNESS SUPPORT Support

 All-inclusive  5-minute  Secure tunnel
features heartbeats and enables fast and
 Built-in application profiles detailed daily telemetry ensure easy triage and
eliminate manual tuning arrays are in top condition problem resolution

 Extensive integration with  Real-time analysis of entire
hypervisors and applications environment with automated
case creation before failure
 Non-disruptive software occurs
upgrades


Simplify and Go Beyond
Easy to Purchase Easy to Maintain Easy to Upgrade
NUMBER OF LINE PERCENT OF PERCENT OF
ITEMS PER QUOTE SUPPORT CASES
RESOLVED WITH
99.9% SYSTEMS
UPGRADED
AUTOMATED WITHOUT
3 PAGES 70% SYSTEM DOWNTIME

Actual results across Actual results across
2 Line Items all Nimble customers all Nimble customers

“It was really refreshing to see Nimble’s “This isn't hard enough! I need “Just ran the firmware update.
quote was one line item on my purchase thick manuals, on-site field It could not have possibly gone smoother. One click
engineers, a complicated support web site, a-la- to download, one click to update. Watched
order. It just all came bundled in there.
carte licensing charges, complicated spreadsheets a live VM during the 8-minute process which never
All the things I needed and then some.”
to document configurations, maybe even a storage disconnected.”
–Mariyah Epich Serratos, City of Cupertino specialist! Something is very wrong here." –Kenneth Libeson, Meritage Group
–Russell Roberts, Premier Medical Group

Solutions


Ideal for Exchange

Gain Performance Save and Protect
MAILBOXES PER DISK Published and verified COMPRESSION CUSTOMERS RETAINING
Microsoft Exchange ESRP SNAPSHOTS FOR
3,333 Nimble
12 disks
benchmark results. 1.8x >1 MONTH
for 40,000
10-24x mailboxes

Actual results 48% Actual results
across all across all
Equalogic EMC
32 disks for NetApp Nimble Nimble
34 disks for Compellent
10,000 64 disks for customers customers
10,000 72 disks for
mailboxes mailboxes 12,000 10,000 deploying deploying
mailboxes mailboxes Exchange Exchange
312 294 187 139 2010 2010

“With Nimble, we were able to run 3 snapshot backups a day and
“We started out deploying SQL workloads primarily on replicate offsite twice daily. Exchange users notice no performance
the Nimble array. Very quickly we realized we had degradation. Backups take minutes, not hours. Snapshot backups
enough performance headroom to consolidate our very demanding require very little space and are recoverable and mountable locally and
Exchange 2010 deployment on the same array.” remotely. A mailbox or Exchange system can be recovered in literally minutes.
–Ron Kanter, IT Director, Berkeley Research Group Best of all, we can regularly test our procedures for Disaster Recovery.”
–Lucas Clara, IT Director, Foster Pepper LLC

Nimble with VMware

 Deep collaboration across the lifecycle from pre-release
development to go-to-market
 All products certified with ESX and listed on VMware Hardware
Compatibility List
 Reference development platform for VMware VDI architectures
 One of a small list of VDI solutions certified under the VMware
Remote Desktop Program

READY


VMware + Nimble = Better Performance, Management

 vCenter Plug-ins to Manage Storage
VMware
– Create datastores/clones vCenter Server
– Manage snapshots/replication/restores
– Manage performance and capacity Nimble vCenter
plug-ins
 vStorage API integrations to improve
VMware vSphere
performance, management
– Provision VMs, offload clone/copy
– Set capacity threshold alerts
– Better error handling Servers

– VMFS performance improvements vStorage VM-consistent
APIs B/R
 VMware tools integration to
improve protection
 Quiesce/recover VMs with VM/app consistency
READY


VMware + Nimble = DR Automation and Testing

Site A (Primary) Site Site
Site B (Recovery)
VMware Recovery VMware Recovery
vCenter Server Manager vCenter Server Manager

VMware vSphere VMware vSphere

Servers Servers

Storage Replication

READY


VDI Challenges and Stresses

 VDI benefits
– Easy, centralized management
– Improved security
– Reduced maintenance, easy OS upgrades
– Fast provisioning
– Go green: reduced resource consumption
– Storage and backup consolidation
– More capable of handling peak loads
 But… Get Storage wrong and VDI can fail
– “Storage costs can consume 40% to 50%
of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
project's overall costs.” – Jeff Byrne, Taneja Group


VDI Demands Responsive Storage

VDI Storage Requirements for Hundreds of Desktops
14000 Boot Storm
12000
AV Scans
10000 and Patches
8000
IOPS

Writes
6000 Reads
Workday
4000

2000

0
9:00 AM 6:00 PM 10:00 PM


Nimble + CommVault = Comprehensive Backup Management

 Centralized management that allows admins to monitor and manage from a
single console
 Integrated catalog that allows indexing and tracking of snapshot copies across
all forms of media
 Application-aware, granular recoveries of files and objects
 Compliance and e-discovery support


Nimble with Microsoft

 Nimble is a Microsoft
Windows Storage
Premier Partner Stack
 Collaboration across development
and support – dedicated TAM for Nimble VSS
Hardware
Nimble
MPIO
Nimble support Provider DSM

 Nimble storage arrays
are Windows logo’ed
 Support for MSFT iSCSI Servers

initiator, MPIO, VSS


Nimble with Cisco

 Nimble is Cisco CDN partner
 Nimble arrays are UCS certified
 Collaboration around VDI solutions

Cisco Unified
Computing
System


Nimble with Citrix XenDesktop/App/Server


Company Snapshot

 Founded in January 2008; started shipping in August 2010
 Headquartered in San Jose, CA; operations in US, Canada, Europe, and Australia
 Over 270 employees

Rapidly growing installed base of over 700 customers and
1200 deployments

Partner eco-system expanding quickly, with over 200+ VARs

Strong alliances with VMware, Microsoft, Cisco and CommVault

Leadership team brings deep industry expertise and business
building experience


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