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Nimble Storage – VMUG Success Story. Nick Furnell. Welcome. How many VM’s do you run?. Less than 50 Less than 100 More?. How many VM’s do you run?. 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, Single CPU Local DC. 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader. Head Office.
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Nimble Storage – VMUG Success Story Nick Furnell
How many VM’s do you run? Less than 50 Less than 100 More?
How many VM’s do you run? • 25 VM’s • 3 Hosts, Single CPU • Local DC 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader Head Office ISP Co-Lo
How many VM’s do you run? Head Office ISP Co-Lo
How much Storage do you have? Less than 20TB Less than 50TB More?
How old is your SAN Infrastructure? Hitachi AMS2100 1 year old Hitachi AMS200 5 years old Due for replacement Head Office ISP Co-Lo
Playing Solitare on a Grand Scale! Hitachi AMS2100 Fibre Channel 8TB SAS & SATA Hitachi AMS200 iSCSI 8TB FC & SATA New SAN Faster More Capacity Head Office ISP Co-Lo
Proposed replacement SAN AMS2100 Proposed Replacement
Keogh Report Implications Solid Storage Great Backup • AMS2100 Proposed Replacement
Needed Flexibility Hybrid Solution • AMS2100 Alternative Replacement
Disaster Strikes mid-project +100ms 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader <20ms Latency Head Office
Disaster Strikes mid-project Help! 25 VM’s 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader Latency Head Office
Nimble - Testing 30GB vMotion Move
Nimble - Traditional Volumes? Compression? Snapshots? Caching? Block Size? Single 6TB Volume
How do you view Storage? Data Repository? Structured by Services? Something else?
Nimble – per Volume based Profiles Images (iSCSI) Unstructured Data Groupwise e-mail Payroll SQL Backups Veeam Cache Traditional Layout Flexible Nimble Layout
Nimble – Manual vVols? Windows DFS Manages file changes Hitachi AMS2100 Traditional VMDK Disk Nimble C220 iSCSI Volume Compression ON Snapshotting ON Head Office ISP Co-Lo
My Favourite Nimble Features? Flexibility Upgradeability InfoSight
Nimble – VMUG Success Story Twitter: @nickfurnell http://goo.gl/uiHuVy
Nimble – VMUG Success Story Twitter: @nickfurnell http://goo.gl/uiHuVy