The document discusses how the County of Nevada solved VMware performance issues with a hybrid flash array from Tegile. It describes: 1) How Tegile's solution addressed latency spikes and eased management compared to their previous EMC SAN. 2) The county's goals of higher performance without spikes, easier management, and lower costs. 3) Why Tegile was selected over other flash solutions due to its intelligent use of flash, capacity, controllers and user interface.

1. Available On Demand
Flash in The Real World
Using Flash To Solve VMware Performance Issues
Listen as we explain:
1. The Three Things That Flash Based
Storage Brings To VMware
2. Problems that the County of Nevada
faced and how a hybrid array solved
them
3. Why the County of Nevada chose
Tegile
over the other flash based solutions on
the market
Join Storage Switzerland and Tegile as they
sit down with the County of Nevada
administrator to discuss how they solved their
performance challenges with a hybrid array.
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/FlashSolveVMware

2. Our Speakers
Chris has been instrumental in the success of some of the storage industry’s most key companies
over the past 10 years. At Tegile, Chris is developing the product marketing strategy and competitive
analysis portfolio. Chris’ background includes Sun Microsystems, EMC and Dell/Compellent where he
held various roles in technical marketing, sales engineering and competitive analysis. Chris received
his BS in Management Information Systems (MIS) at San Jose State University.
George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the
subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is
widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash
arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking.
He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.
Fritz started in IT back at the turn of the 2k-decade. He taught Novell for 2.5 years at a Private post-
secondary institution. In 2002 he started working for Nevada County. In his 14 years there he has
gained experience with Windows Servers and Novell 4.11 to 5.1 servers. In the early days,
experimenting with SUSE Enterprise Linux virtualization, then to VMware ESX and ESXi 3.5. During
the transition to VMware, Fritz converted over 40 physical servers to virtual. Today he administers
Windows based servers 2000 to 2012R2 as well as handles SQL administration of versions 2000 to
2014.

3. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Who Is Storage Switzerland?

4. Transforming IT with Intelligent Flash Storage
▪ Enterprise Flash Storage Vendor
▪ All-flash & Hybrid in the same system
▪ www.tegile.com
▪ Rapidly Growing
▪ 700+ customers
▪ 1400+ systems deployed
▪ Enabling Business Transformation
▪ Application Acceleration
▪ Infrastructure Efficiency through Data
Reduction

5. The County of Nevada, CA
Created in 1851, Nevada County is a county
located in the Sierra Nevada of California. As
of the 2010 census, the population was
98,764. The region came to life in the Gold
Rush of 1849.
The biggest conundrum that visitors face in
this fascinating 978-square mile county is
where to start! With a foundation built upon the
compelling Gold Rush and immigrant
experiences, the entire region is now a
cornucopia of recreational opportunities, arts
and culture, interesting special events, a
growing wine industry and exceptional dining
options that will please even the most
discerning tastes.

6. VMware Storage
Historic Problems Still Exist
• I/O Blender
• Hard To Manage
• Hard To Troubleshoot

7. VMware Storage
New Realities Making It Worse
• Increased VM Density
• Virtualization of
Mission/Business
Critical Workloads
• Budgets Are Flat

8. Increased VM Density - A Bigger
Blender
• Density improves
ROI but...
increases potential
performance problems
• Flash is the key but...
How much?
How to leverage?

9. Virtualizing Of Critical Workloads
• Need to handle more
Storage I/O workloads
• Need Predictable
Performance
• Need better Insight for
Troubleshooting

10. Flat Budgets - Do More With Less
• Higher VM Density
Address with Flash but raises costs
• Greater Data Efficiency
Deduplication and Compression
• More Multi-Purpose
NAS and SAN
iSCSI and FC
High Performance and High Capacity

11. Flash In The Real World
County of Nevada, California
• IT Infrastructure
Windows Servers
MS-SQL Applications
Exchange
VMware vSphere 5.1
• Problems
After 5.1 Upgrade EMC SAN was
experiencing high latency
spikes slowing application
response time

12. County of Nevada, California
Goals For In Next Solution
• Higher Performance
Eliminate Latency Spikes
• Easier Management
• Lower Cost

13. County of Nevada, California
Why Tegile Was Selected
• Intelligent Use of Flash
Hybrid
• Intelligent Use of Capacity
Deduplication and Compression
• Intelligent Use of Controllers
Active-Active
• Intelligent Interface
Easy to use GUI
• Intelligent Use of Budget Dollars
Tegile was most cost effective

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Company Confidential.
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#oneflashplatform
Tegile
Intelligent
Flash Arrays
One Flash Platform. Any
Workload.

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Company Confidential.
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Data Silos Add Cost & Complexity
Backup
Copies
Communication &
Collaboration
Business
processing
Analytics
Virtualization
Financial
transactions
E-commerce
applications
OLTP

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Company Confidential.
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Other Vendors Only Solve Part of the
Problem
Backup
Copies
Communication &
Collaboration
Business
processing
Analytics
Virtualization
Financial
transactions
E-commerce
applications
OLTP
All-Flash Arrays
(Block Only)
Hybrid Arrays
(Block Only)
Legacy Arrays
(Block or File)
Low-Cost Media

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Company Confidential.
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Meet the Needs of Your Entire
Business
Backup
Copies
Communication &
Collaboration
Business
processing
Analytics
Virtualization
Financial
transactions
E-commerce
applications
OLTP

18. © Copyright 2015 Tegile Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Company Confidential.
17
Same Operating System | Same Feature Set | Same User Experience
One Flash Platform. Any
Workload.
Capacity Performance

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Company Confidential.
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Only Tegile Offers…
All-Flash &
Hybrid
Scale up in performance AND capacity
to
accommodate your future needs
Multi-Protocol
Support
Native support for block AND file
protocols
(iSCSI, FC, NFS, CIFS/SMB 3.0)
Superior
Data Reduction
Inline compression AND
deduplication
Affordable
Disaster
Recovery
Replicate between all-flash AND
hybrid configurations

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Company Confidential.
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#oneflashplatform
Gartner Names Tegile “Visionary”
Twice
MQ for Solid-State
Arrays
MQ for General Purpose
Disk Arrays

21. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
gcrump@storage-switzerland.com
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http://twitter.com/storageswiss
StorageSwiss on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss
Tegile
http://www.tegile.com
Tegile on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/tegile
Tegile on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/tegilesystems

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