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Get Nimble with Cisco and Nimble Storage SmartStack Jun 2nd, 2015
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Welcome and Agenda
Brian J Avery Territory B us iness Manager
C isco S ystems, Inc.
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§ Introduction
§ W hat is the C is co C us tomer E ducation S eries ?
§ Introducing C is co Unified C omputing
§ G et Nimble with Nimble S torage and UC S
§ C onclus ion
Welcome and Agenda
Brian J Avery Territory B us iness Manager
C isco S ystems, Inc.
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§ C C E is an educational s es s ion for current and pros pective C is co cus tomers
§ Des igned to help you unders tand the capabilities and bus ines s benefits of C is co technologies
§ Allow you to interact directly with C is co s ubject matter experts and as k ques tions
§ Offer as s is tance if you need/want more information, demons trations , etc.
What Is the Cisco Customer Education Series?
Unified Computing Introduction Brian J. Avery, Territory Business Manager - C isco S ystems
Free Your Mind!
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Cisco Unified Computing System Reinventing the Datacenter
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Hold up. Cisco sells servers??
Data Center Economics
Source: Gartner, Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”
29%
22% 12%
11%
10%
7%
7% 2%
Overall Spend Distribution
People Software Energy / FacilitiesServers Networking StorageDisaster Recovery Overhead
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Server-Related Spend WW New Server, Power, Cooling, Management,
and Administration Spending Share
New Server Server Admin Power and Cooling
Source: IDC #250082, “Worldwide Server, Power and Cooling, and Management and Administration Spending 2014–2018 Forecast,” August 2014
Data Center Economics
Source: Gartner, Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”
29%
22% 12%
11%
10%
7%
7% 2%
Overall Spend Distribution
People Software Energy / FacilitiesServers Networking StorageDisaster Recovery Overhead
0%
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1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Server-Related Spend WW New Server, Power, Cooling, Management,
and Administration Spending Share
New Server Server Admin Power and Cooling
Source: IDC #250082, “Worldwide Server, Power and Cooling, and Management and Administration Spending 2014–2018 Forecast,” August 2014
of Overall IT Spent on OpEx
(People, SW, and Facilities)
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Cisco UCS: The Right Solution at the Right Time
CISCO UCS
Virtualization
Network & Storage Access Compute
Application Centricity
Operational Simplicity
Platform for IT Innovation
Reduce the Complexity that Drives OPEX Get the Most Out of Virtualization Automate and Move Faster Get ready for cloud
Customer Asks in 2009
Help me:
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Cisco Unified Computing System A Differentiated/Revolutionary Approach
Simpler Architecture § Networking with fewer components § Lower cost and eas ier scaling
§ F ewer management touch points
Faster, More Flexible § Automated deployment/provis ioning § Unification leads to reduced complexity
§ Management via a s ingle interface
Higher Performance § B rings out the best of x86 architecture § Optimized resource utilization for compute,
networking, and management
No Compromises § No trade-offs for function § E nhanced des ign capability
§ Designed for the future, today § B etter T C O/R OI
Cisco UCS: Unified Infrastructure, Scalability, and Management Automation
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UCS Management § Reduced time to deploy new apps § Reallocate resources quickly and
efficiently
§ R educed infrastructure § C ohesive resource pools
Unified Fabric
Compute With NO Compromise § Blade and rack servers in a s ingle UC S
managed domain § P hys ical and virtual workloads
Virtualized I/O § Improved scalability and flexibility § Increased performance
Unified Computing Product Innovation Innovation to Improve Applications •
X ML AP I S T ANDAR D AP Is
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Fabric Extenders
UCS B- Series Blade Servers
UCS C- Series Rack Servers
Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
The easiest, most intelligent and efficient way to connect and manage computing in the data center.
One Connection LAN, S AN and Management
Physical and Virtual
Rack and Blade
Cisco SingleConnect Technology
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Unified Management with UCS Manager Blade and Rack Servers Managed a Cohesive Resource Pool
C -S eries R a ck O ptimized S ervers
B -S eries B la de S ervers
UCS Service Profile Unified Device Management
Network Policy
Storage Policy
Server Policy
UNIFIED MANAGEMENT A SINGLE UNIFIED SYSTEM
FOR BLADE AND RACK SERVERS
A Major Market Transformation in Unified Server Management
Benefits of UCS Manager and Service Profiles for Both Blade and
Rack-Optimized Servers
Add Capacity Without Complexity
UCS Manager
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Seamless Infrastructure Management
L4-7 Services Virtualization
New! Integrated application containers for secure workload provisioning
New! Application Centric Infrastructure configuration
New! Open developer kit for ecosystem acceleration
Update! UCS Central integration to easily manage all UCS and UCS Mini domains together
Storage
UCS Director
Nexus Product Family
Unified Computing System
Automation Powered by UCS Director
Quality Enforce IT Best Practices
Velocity Rapidly Deploy Applications
Simplicity Ready for Use in Hours
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Cost Categories Impacted by Cisco UCS Tr
aditi
onal
Sol
utio
n
UC
S S
olut
ion
Unified F abric • R adical infras tructure simplification
• E fficient s caling
• High performance
S ingleC onnect, Networking, C abling,
and W arranty P ower and C ooling
S ervers and W arranty
Unified Management • E mbedded device management
• S elf-integrating
• S tateles s
• Automated
• P rogrammable
P rovis ioning and Ongoing Adminis tration
S ys tems Management S oftware
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Cisco Unified Computing System Proven Value and Over 38,800 Customers World Wide
“It’s given us a competitive edge.”
Reduction in Provisioning
Times
83% Reduction of Management
Costs
67% Reduction of Power and
Cooling Costs
49% Cabling
Reduction
77% World-record Performance Benchmarks
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“Our C is co Unified C omputing S ys tem decis ion is a game-changer.” Wes Wright C IO, S eattle C hildren’s
Andrew Henderson C IO, ING Direct
“W ith C is co UC S , we can adapt much more quickly to us er demand.” Mark Adams VP Information T echnology, HireR ight
S ources: “C isco UC S : C ha nging the E conomics of the Da ta center, December 2014” C ustomer C a se S tudies, C isco UC S P erforma nce B enchma rks
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UCS Market Share Growth X86 Server Blade Market Share
1 S ourc e: ID C W orldwide Quarterly S erver Trac ker, 2014Q3, D ec ember 2014, V endor R evenue S hare
# 1 in USA (40.5%) 1 # 2 Worldwide and growing 27% YoY1
UCS Momentum
• 38,800+ Unique Customers • 18,000+ Repeat Customers • 85%+ of Fortune 500
UCS # 1 in Only Five Years
0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0%
OracleSugon
HuaweiOthers
SGINEC
FujitsuHitachi
DellIBM
CiscoHP
UCS # 2 with 27.4 %
Wor
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ide
0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0%
Oracle
SGI
Dell
IBM
HP
Cisco
UCS # 1 with 40.5%
US
A
Nimble Storage SmartStack Solutions Overview May 2015 – Jon Shipley Senior Account Executive
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Converged Infrastructure
§ Integrated set of compute, storage, and networking components » Tested and proven in a variety of configurations and workloads » Focused on specific workloads
§ Increasing popular way to procure IT infrastructure » Simple, low risk approach » Speed up deployments
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Kaon v-Rack Demo
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Nimble Storage SmartStack
§ Customer Benefits » Speed deployments with pre-validated solutions » Scale seamlessly as needs grow » Simplify with unified management
§ Solutions for a variety of workloads » Desktop and Server Virtualization » Databases and Business Applications » Messaging and Collaboration
Pre-validated converged infrastructure solution combining best of breed compute, networking, storage and software
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SmartStack with Cisco UCS
Validated Workloads on Nimble Storage SmartStack
Business Applications Private Cloud VDI Data Protection
UCS B-Series & C-Series Servers with UCS Manager & Director
Cisco Network Switches
Nimble Storage CS-Series
Disaster Recovery
Snapshots And/or
Backup +
Database
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SmartStack Unified Management with UCS Director
§ Integration with UCS Director enables: » Unified end-to-end visibility of Converged Infrastructure Components » Workflow automation » Workflow publishing
§ Benefits » Speed time to provisioning » Reduce manual errors and OpEx » Enforce policies and processes » Enable self-service
Centralized management from a single pane of glass
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Support for SmartStack
§ Nimble SmartStack Integration Support » [email protected] or Option 7 from 1-877-3Nimble » Coordinate third-party vendor support » No additional charge
§ Cisco Solution Support for Critical Infrastructure » Cisco will offer issue management and solution expertise » Will coordinate with Nimble and other vendors for support » Contact [email protected] for pricing, varies by size of deployment
§ All configurations validated and supported by participating vendor partners » Product Certifications » Hardware Compatibility Lists
§ Backed by TSAnet as global alliance framework that enables fast-track technical support cooperation between several partners
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Redesigned from the Ground Up
1980s 1990s 2000s Today
DAS Monolithic Storage
Modular Storage
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Adaptive Flash
Providing Our Customers with the Industry’s Most Efficient Flash Storage Platform
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Company Snapshot
§ Founded in January 2008 § December 2013 IPO (NYSE:NMBL) § Headquartered in San Jose, CA
» operations in US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia
§ Over 800 employees Rapidly growing installed base of over 5,500 customers
Strong alliances with Cisco, VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and Oracle
Leadership team brings deep storage industry expertise and business building experience
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Current Storage Solutions Involve Compromises
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Performance Intensive
Workloads
Capacity Intensive
Hybrid Arrays
Archival
Flash Only Arrays
Flash on Serv er
High-Performance Computing
Cheap and Deep
Perfo
rman
ce
Capacity
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Eliminating the Performance and Capacity Tradeoff
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Performance Intensive
Workloads
Capacity Intensive
High-Performance Computing
Cheap and Deep
Archival
Flash on Serv er
Adaptive Flash Platform
Perfo
rman
ce
+ Ca
pacit
y
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Nimble’s Adaptive Flash Platform
CASL Flash-optimized file
system software
InfoSight Cloud-based
management/support Flash
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What’s New: Products & Features (As of Q4 FY2015)
Fibre Channel Connectivity
§ 2, 4 and 6-port 16Gb FC available for CS300, CS500 and CS700 Arrays
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Higher-Density Drives
§ 4TB HDD § 1.6 TB SSD
§ All-Flash shelf now with up to 25.6TB flash
Add up to 6 Disk Expansion Shelves
§ NEW ES1-H85 Expansion Shelf offers up to 90TB effective capacity § Effective capacity of up to 606TB per array § for CS300, CS500 and CS700 only
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The Nimble Portfolio: More Powerful, Top to Bottom
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CS210/215
§ Best values for smaller deployments
§ Up to 18K IOPS
CS300* § Best GB/$ for
capacity
§ 30K IOPS
CS500* § Best
price/performance and IOPS/$
§ 90K IOPS
CS700* § Extreme performance and
consolidation
§ 125K+ IOPS
All-Flash Shelf § Expand cache up to 32TB per
system (CS700 and CS500)
§ Supported on CS300/500/700, as well as CS4xx arrays
The Adaptive Flash Platform
§ Performance & Capacity
§ Scale-to-Fit
§ Integrated Protection
§ Proactive Wellness
Flash
* Fibre Channel Enabled
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Storage-On-Demand: Utility-based Pricing Model
§ Unique, Service Level-Based Pricing Model § Don’t Pay For What You Don’t Use
» Simple ¢/GB/month price based on USED monthly capacity
§ Never Run Out, Never Pay For Unused » 10%+ Buffer Capacity always included » If your usage goes down, so does your bill
§ No Lock-In » 12-month commit then month to month » 40TB Minimum » Grow and shrink usage on the fly
Storage On-Demand Costs
Actual Usage
Time
Cost
s
Service Levels: § Platinum
§ Gold
§ Silver
§ Bronze
High Performance
Capacity-Optimized
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Cluster up to 4 of ANY Nimble Storage CS-Series Arrays
Eliminate Storage Silos
Scale to enterprise levels of performance and capacity: § 500K+ IOPS
§ Up to 166 TB Flash
§ Over 2PB Capacity
§ Fibre Channel or iSCSI
Consolidate diverse critical applications and manage as a single storage entity 37
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Performance and Capacity
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Nimble Storage CASL Architecture: Write-Optimized Layout
CASL is a CPU-driven architecture § Performance decoupled from spindle speed/count § In-Line Compression
» Fast in-line compression for variable application block sizes decreases footprint of inbound write data by 75%
§ Random IO written sequentially » Once there are enough variable-sized blocks to form a full write stripe,
CASL writes the data to disk
» If the data being written is active data, it is also copied to SSD cache for faster reads. Written data is protected with triple-parity RAID
§ Thin-Provisioning and Efficient Capacity Utilization » Capacity is only consumed as data is written » CASL efficiently reclaims free space on an ongoing basis, preserving
write performance with higher levels of capacity utilization
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Nimble Storage CASL Architecture: Write-Optimized Layout
§ Write Performance » By sequentializing random write data,
CASL’s writes to disk are orders of magnitude faster than other storage systems’ random writes
» The CS700 delivers double the write IOPS of a single MLC flash drive with a 7,200-RPM disk
RAID-3P No RAID
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Nimble Storage CASL Architecture: Cache-Accelerated Reads
Cache-Accelerated Read Performance § Active data is dynamically cached in flash
» Delivers sub-ms read latency and high throughput across demanding enterprise applications
§ Adaptive Flash » CASL leverages flash as a true read cache, as opposed to a
bolt-on tier » Nimble arrays easily adapt to changing workloads » CASL allows flash to flexibly scale for higher performance
§ Intelligent Caching » CASL populates the cache with recently written hot data, along
with its associated metadata. » Only compressed data in full erase stripes is written to cache,
which substantially increases the endurance of the flash cells » Authoritative copy of data resides on disk, so no overhead of
parity or RAID within cache
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Snapshots
Flash to house application data
Overprovisioning
RAID
Eliminating Inefficiencies with Adaptive Flash
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Flash Only Arrays Nimble Adaptive Flash
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CASL Doesn’t Overprovision Flash
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90%
100%
Exchange VDI WindowsFile Server
SQL Server Sharepoint Oracle OtherDatabase
Other Flash OnlyArray
Wor
king S
et Si
ze
Source: InfoSight analytics based on 1,000’s of systems
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Lower TCO: Staples
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Customer needs / challenges
§ Minimize power and cooling costs
§ Reduce storage capacity costs
§ Reduce complexity
“ EMC VMAX was too complex. The costs to deploy and manage were not sustainable. Nimble has given us much more flexibility with primary storage and data protection and a much more resilient infrastructure—all at a much lower cost.
” —Shaun Butler
IT Platform Lead, Staples
Results
reduction in storage costs
9x reduction of
datacenter footprint
30x savings in data protection costs
50% impact to performance
Zero
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Faster Performance and Higher Capacity
Dis
k-ba
sed
Sys
tem
s 5-10 ms
0.45 ms
AVERAGE READ LATENCY
AVERAGE WRITE LATENCY
Actual results across all Nimble customers
Tier
ed S
yste
ms
w
ith F
lash
1-4 ms
0.38 ms
“With inline compression alone, we’ve freed up 7.48TB of space. Imagine what we can do with that.”
– Calvin Levy, Florida Blood Services
AVERAGE COMPRESSION
Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying SQL server workloads
2.1X
“We replaced half a rack of our previous storage with only 9U of Nimble. Frankly, I’ve never seen any other vendor deliver the kind of performance that Nimble does with the same set of hardware. We were seeing all-flash performance without the corresponding expense.“
-- Jeremy Balter, Sr. Systems Administrator, LANDesk
Actual results across all Nimble customers
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Scale-to-Fit
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Scale Performance Independent of Capacity with Nimble Storage
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PERF
ORM
ANCE
CAPACITY
SQL Server
Real-time Analytics
VDI
Oracle
Exchange
SharePoint
Backup, DR
Archival, cheap and deep
CS500 90K IOPS
CS700 125K IOPS AFS Up to 25.6TB of flash
CS300 30K IOPS
§ Add CPU cores to scale overall throughput » Upgrade controllers
seamlessly across entire product family
§ Add SSDs to boost read performance » Up to 6.4TB of flash per array » All-Flash Shelf adds 25.6TB
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Easily Scale Capacity
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PERF
ORM
ANCE
CAPACITY
SQL Server
Real-time Analytics
VDI
Oracle
Exchange
SharePoint
Backup, DR
Archival, cheap and deep
CS500 90K IOPS
CS700 125K IOPS AFS Up to 25.6TB of flash
CS300 30K IOPS
§ Seamlessly expand capacity » Add up to 6 disk expansion
shelves per array
106TB 370TB
*with CS300, CS500, CS700
640TB *with CS300, CS500,
CS700
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Nimble Storage Scale-to-Fit: Scale Out
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PERF
ORM
ANCE
CAPACITY
CS500 90K IOPS
CS700 125K IOPS AFS Up to 25.6TB of flash
CS300 30K IOPS
ü Cluster up to 4 of any Nimble Storage arrays
ü Simple configuration § Automated host connection
management § Dynamic load-balancing
and automated capacity rebalancing
ü Linear performance scaling
ü Automatic data migrations
106TB 370TB
*with CS300, CS500, CS700
640TB *with CS300, CS500, CS700
4 Node CS700 Cluster Up to 500K IOPS
2.5+ PB Capacity
*multi-array data striping with iSCSI only
Scale up, scale deep and scale out with zero downtime
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Integrated Protection
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What If … ?
§ Data protection did not impact production infrastructure?
§ You could easily achieve recovery point objectives of 15 minutes?
§ You could recover data in minutes?
§ You could roll back data to any day in the last 3 months?
§ You could be proactively notified of any problems?
§ It was all included and integrated as part of your storage array?
Storage-based snapshots enable aggressive RPOs and RTOs, while eliminating impact on production infrastructure
?
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Transformation in Data Protection Model
D2D + Replication Snapshots + Replication Tier 1 Tier 2
No Tapes
Primary
Backup
Disaster Recovery
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§ No backup window § Rapid recovery
Tier 3 (+Dedupe)
Tier 3 (+Dedupe)
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D2D + Replication Snapshots + Replication Fast, cost-effective hybrid storage Tier 1 Tier 2 Primary
Backup
Disaster Recovery
Complementing Data Protection: Copy Data Management
Space efficient clones
Tier 3 (+Dedupe)
Tier 3 (+Dedupe)
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§ No backup window § Rapid local recovery § Cost-effective, simple
DR
§ Instantaneous zero-copy clones (e.g., for test and dev instances)
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Case Study: DMB Associates
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Key issues
§ Reduced performance of business critical applications
§ Nightly backups bleeding into business hours
§ Needed to reduce data center footprint
$40K
in OpEx savings per year
better nightly backup time
6X
Results
reduction in datacenter footprint
300%
Applications running at optimum levels
Nimble solution
Cisco SmartStack, Nimble CS260 and CS260G
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80% Resolved
automatically
90% Support cases
detected
99.999% Proven uptime
Proactive Wellness: Powered by InfoSight
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Nimble Storage InfoSight Rethinking the Storage Lifecycle
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InfoSight: Cloud-Based Support and Management
§ Between 12M and 70M sensors per array, daily
§ Data collected every 5 minutes and on-demand
Comprehensive Telemetry
§ Systems modeling
§ Correlations, trending, and projections
Analysis and Automation
Leveraging pervasive network connectivity and big data analytics to automate support and enable cloud-based management
§ Vast majority of cases opened by Nimble!
§ Secure, on-demand system access
Proactive Wellness
§ Monitoring and alerting
§ Visualization, capacity planning, performance management
Storage Management SaaS Offering
Nimble Approach Customer Benefits
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PINPOINT INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEMS § Bad NICs, cables § MPIO misconfigurations § Inconsistent jumbo
frame settings
What InfoSight Can Do
PREDICT AVAILABILITY ISSUES § Find the cause of
software anomalies § Forecast when anomalies
could cause availability issues
ENSURE A RELIABLE DATA PROTECTION STRATEGY § Multi-level alerting § Comprehensive
dashboard view
FIND THE PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECK § Cache and CPU sizing
recommendations § Drill-down metrics
InfoSight Engine
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Expands the InfoSight value of providing actionable intelligence to better manage your storage resources: a cornerstone of the Nimble Adaptive Flash platform
InfoSight: Per-VM Monitoring
§ Agent-less ESX and VM Level stats collection § Identify performance
bottlenecks at the ESX hypervisor, VM and storage Layers § Point in time latency drill
down to identify VM “noisy neighbor”
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Primary Benefits
§ Gain visibility into performance and latency on a per-VM or per-datastore basis
§ Simplify operations between virtualization and storage administration – no more finger pointing § Avoid unnecessary
expense of storage upgrades to solve performance problems
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InfoSight Powers Storage-on-Demand
• InfoSight tracks capacity usage and accurately generates monthly invoices
• InfoSight automates delivery of additional performance and capacity before it is needed
Wellness Assets Support Data Protection Dashboard Performance Volumes Capacity
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Data Protection With Nimble Storage: Simple Workflows
§ Simplified workflows for: » Snapshot schedule and retention
» Application-consistent snapshots
» Replication and replica retention
» Multiple schedules with flexible retention policies
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Nimble SmartStack
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Other Alliances
Nimble Storage SmartStack Validated Reference Architectures
Snapshots / Backup
Disaster Recover
y
Data Protection
UCS B-Series and C-Series Servers with UCS Manager Cisco Network Switches
Servers and
Network Infrastruct
ure
Nimble Storage CS-Series
VDI and Server Virtualization
Business Critical Applications and Database
Private Cloud
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SmartStack Converged Infrastructures
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Revolutionizing Enterprise Storage
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Supplemental Material
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Nimble Storage CS-Series Arrays: Behind the Front Bezel
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F CS-Arrays
§ 2, 4
Fibre Channel Connectivity
§ 2, 4
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Nimble Storage CS-Series Arrays: Rear Panel
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F CS-Arrays
§ 2, 4
Fibre Channel Connectivity
§ 2, 4
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Nimble Storage Product Family Comparison Value Family Base Performance High Performance Extreme Performance
PRODUCT CS210 CS215 CS300 CS500 CS700
Base Raw capacity 8TB 12TB 12TB to 72TB
Effectiv e Capacity 4TB to 8TB 8TB to 16TB 8TB to 100TB
Flash Base/Max 160GB to 640GB 320GB to 1,200GB 640GB to 3,200GB 1,200GB to 6,400GB 3,200GB to 6,400GB
All-Flash Shelf N/A N/A Add 1 shelf (up to 25.6TB flash)
Add-On Disk Shelf Add 1 shelf Add 1 shelf Add up to 6 expansion disk shelv es
Effectiv e Capacity (w/ max shelv es) Up to 98TB Up to 106TB Up to 640TB
4-node Cluster Up to 384TB / 2.56TB Flash
Up to 424TB eff. capacity/ 4.8TB Flash Up to 2.56PB effectiv e capacity (Up to 166.4TB Flash)
TOTAL NICs 2 2 3
iSCSi Protocol Options 4 x 1GbE
2x 1 GbE (on board) AND 2x Dual 1GbE or
1x Dual 10GbE SFP+ Optical or
1x Dual 10GbaseT
2x 1GbE (on board) AND up to
2x Dual 10GbaseT (optional) or 2x Dual 10GbE SFP+ (optional)
Fiber Channel Options N/A N/A 1 Dual-Port 16Gb FC NICs 1 or 2 Dual-Port 16Gb FC NICs 2 or 3 Dual-Port 16Gb FC NICs
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Positioning the Nimble Portfolio
Model Target Environments Performance Upgradable to
CS210/215 iSCSI only
Best value solutions for smaller environments: Remote office, departments of larger organizations.
18K IOPS (CS215) CS300/ 500/ 700 (CS215 only)
CS300 Fibre Channel or iSCSI
Offers best GB/$ for balancing capacity and performance: midsize IT org’s, Microsoft apps, smaller VDI or virtual server deployments
30K IOPS CS500 / 700
CS500 Fibre Channel or iSCSI
Best price/performance and IOPS/$ platform. Ideal for larger scale deployments and IO-intensive workloads like larger VDI, Oracle and other databases.
90K IOPS CS700
CS700 Fibre Channel or iSCSI
Highest performance and scalability. Built for consolidating multiple workloads with aggressive performance demands.
125K IOPS N/A
All-Flash Shelf (cache expansion)
Ideal for workloads with large working sets of hot data or high levels of cache churn, or consolidation environments with multiple performance-intensive applications: VDI, OLTP, DW/BI
N/A Supported on CS300/500/700, also on CS4xx
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Case Study: sevenP
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Customer needs / challenges
§ Service Provider with growing performance demands due to expanding customer base
§ Datacenter and energy costs too high
§ Complex management
Results
reduction in datacenter footprint
75% overall savings
40% reduction in power
consumption
80%
“ By moving data to the Nimble arrays, our storage IOPS limitations simply went away. ”
—Gert Lunenborg Director of IT, sevenP
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Conclusion
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Next Steps
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