Transforming your Datacenter with Nimble Storage. Stephen D Amore, Senior Systems Engineer Nordics

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1 Transforming your Datacenter with Nimble Storage Stephen D Amore, Senior Systems Engineer Nordics

2 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 600 employees Rapidly growing installed base of over 3,000 customers and 6,000+ deployments Worldwide partner eco-system of 900+ VARs Strong alliances with Cisco, VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and Oracle Leadership team brings deep storage industry expertise and business building experience 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 2

3 Nimble Storage Debuts as a Visionary on Magic Quadrant Nimble Storage was recognized as a visionary based on its innovative Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture, post-sales support and strategic alliances. On the Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays Improvements in scalability, availability, performance and functionality of midrange storage systems have blurred the boundaries between network-attached, midrange and high-end storage systems. This Magic Quadrant will help IT leaders understand storage vendors' strategies and market strengths. Gartner Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays by Stanley Zaffos, Roger W. Cox, Valdis Filks(21 March 2013) This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Nimble Storage. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does notadvise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 3

4 Redesigned from the Ground Up DAS Monolithic Storage Modular Storage Adaptive Flash 1980s 1990s 2000s Today Providing Our Customers with the Industry s Most Efficient Flash Storage Platform 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 4

5 Current Storage Solutions Involve Compromises Workloads High-Performance Computing Performance Intensive Capacity Intensive Flash on Server Flash Only Arrays Capacity Cheap and Deep Hybrid Arrays Archival Performance 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 5 5

6 Eliminating the Performance and Capacity Tradeoff Workloads High-Performance Computing Performance Intensive Flash on Server Capacity Intensive Cheap and Deep Adaptive Flash Platform Performance + Capacity Archival 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 6 6

7 Storage Architectures The Engine Powering Storage Today s Storage Architectures Architected to use disk only; overlaying flash on top results in partial solution Purpose-built, Performance Hybrid Designed from the ground up to leverage the best of flash and disk Eliminates compromise between performance, capacity, and data management 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 7

8 Advantages of Combining Flash and Disk Flash guarantees the high performance demanded by today s enterprise applications. Random I/O per $ (30x to 100x over disk) High $ per GB (scaling capacity of flash-only storage is cost-inefficient) Limited write endurance Disk offers the best capacity per $; ideal for accommodating data growth. Low cost per GB Good sequential I/O per $ High write endurance Scaling performance tied to disk; lots of rack space & cooling needed Nimble storage delivers the best of both worlds 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 8

9 How CASL Optimizes Writes Random write data CASL eliminates write performance dependency on spindle speed» Random write data is organized into a sequential data block» Single stripe writes to disk 4K 16K 4K 8K IN-LINE COMPRESSION 16K 2X data compression CASL dramatically increases usable capacity of both disk and flash» Variable block-sizing» Fast in-line data compression (~2X) If data is hot, it is cached for fast read Coalesce into a single stripe Write stripe to disk in 11 IOPS» Optimized write layout to disk» No RAID or parity data copied to SSD 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 9

10 Breaking the Write Performance Barrier: The CASL Difference CASL is fundamentally a CPUdriven architecture Write IOPS CS700» Achieves double the write IOPS of MLC SSD with disk!» No write-performance bottlenecks as with bolt-on flash architectures CS300 CS K HDD Per MLC SSD CASL per 7.2K HDD 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 10

11 How CASL Optimizes Reads CASL dynamically caches hot data for fast read performance Cache populated intelligently on first write» Data re-cached on first miss Enables highly stable, sustained performance Adapts rapidly to workload changes Active Data >90% Cache Hit Rate Metadata in cache used for fast lookup on disk 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 11

12 Eliminating Inefficiencies with Adaptive Flash Snapshots RAID Overprovisioning Flash to house application data Flash Only Arrays Nimble Adaptive Flash 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 12 12

13 CASL Doesn t Overprovision Flash 100% 90% 80% Working Set Size 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Exchange VDI Windows File Server SQL Server Sharepoint Oracle Other Database Other Flash Only Array Source: InfoSight analytics based on 1,000 s of systems 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 13 13

14 Performance and Capacity 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 14

15 The Nimble Portfolio: More Powerful, Top to Bottom CS700 Extreme performance and consolidation CS300 Best GB/$ for capacity CS500 Best price/performance and IOPS/$ 90K IOPS 125K+ IOPS All-Flash Shelf Expand cache up to 16TB per system Supported on CS300/500/700 CS210/215 Best values for smaller deployments Up to 18K IOPS 30K IOPS The Adaptive Flash Platform Performance & Capacity Integrated Protection Flash Scale-to-Fit Proactive Wellness 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 15

16 CS700 and the All-Flash Shelf: Building Blocks of Adaptive Flash 4-node CS700 Cluster 500K IOPS Up to 64 TB Flash PB Capacity 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 16 16

17 Nimble Storage Product Family Comparison Value Family Base Performance High Performance Extreme Performance PRODUCT CS210 CS215 CS300 CS500 CS700 Base Raw capacity 8TB 12TB 12-36TB 36TB Effective Capacity 4-8TB 8-16TB 16-50TB 50TB Flash Base/Max 160GB to 640GB 320GB to 1.2TB 640GB to 3.2TB 2.4 or 3.2TB 3.2TB All-Flash Shelf N/A N/A Add 1 shelf (up to 12.8 TB flash) Add-On Disk Shelf Add 1 shelf Add 1 shelf Add up to 3 expansion disk shelves (up to 204 TB) *Support for up to 6 expansion disk shelves in future release (2H 2014) Effective Capacity (w/ max shelves) 76 TB 84TB TB TB 4-node Cluster Up to 304TB / 2.56TB SSD Up to 336TB eff. capacity/ 4.8TB Flash Up to 1.2PB effective capacity Up to 64 TB Flash Network 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) 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 17

18 Capacity Efficiency with CS Mailboxes per disk Mailboxes per disk 666 Mailboxes per disk 3,703 Mailboxes per disk 5-10x more Exchange mailboxes per disk with Nimble ,000 Mailboxes Mailboxes Mailboxes Mailboxes 150 disks 384 disks 180 disks EMC VNX5700 NetApp FA S8060 IBM XIV Gen disks Nimble CS700 Source: Microsoft Exchange 2013 Jetstress benchmark testing 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 18 18

19 Scale-to-Fit 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 19

20 Scale To Fit CS K IOPS AFS Up to 12.8 TB of flash 4 Node CS700 Cluster Up to 500K IOPS PB Capacity CS500 90K IOPS CS300 30K IOPS PERFORMANCE CS215 ~20K IOPS, 8 TB CAPACITY >200 TB >400 TB Scale To Enterprise Levels, Starting With The Most Basic Building Block 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 20 20

21 Scale To Fit CS K IOPS AFS Up to 12.8 TB of flash Real-time Analytics VDI 4 Node CS700 Cluster Up to 500K IOPS PB Capacity CS500 90K IOPS Mainstream Applications Oracle CS300 30K IOPS SQL Server Exchange PERFORMANCE SharePoint Backup, DR CS215 ~20K IOPS, 8 TB CAPACITY Archival, cheap and deep >200 TB >400 TB Efficiently Meet the Needs of Diverse Enterprise Applications 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 21 21

22 Scale Out: The Nimble Storage Approach Nimble Connection Manager eliminates forwarding of data between nodes for better performance scaling Smash capacity silos, eliminate performance hotspots, and manage all storage resources as a single entity Cluster up to 4 of ANY Nimble Storage CS-Series Arrays Automated data migration allows for seamless addition and removal of array nodes Volume A Volume B Volume A Volume B Fine-grained striping of data across pool nodes enables use of the combined hardware resources of clustered arrays Data is automatically rebalanced across storage pool nodes Node A Node B 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 22

23 Integrated Protection 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 23

24 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 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 24

25 Transformation in Data Protection Model D2D + Replication Snapshots + Replication Primary Tier 1 Tier 2 Backup Disaster Recovery Tier 3 (+Dedupe) Tier 3 (+Dedupe) No backup window Rapid recovery No Tapes 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 25

26 Complementing Data Protection: Copy Data Management Primary D2D + Replication Tier 1 Tier 2 Snapshots + Replication Fast, cost-effective hybrid storage Backup Disaster Recovery Tier 3 (+Dedupe) Tier 3 (+Dedupe) No backup window Rapid local recovery Cost-effective, simple DR Space efficient clones Instantaneous zero-copy clones (e.g., for test and dev instances) 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 26

27 Nimble Snapshot Efficiency Benefits Performance Efficiency» Aggressive recovery points» Fast recovery times Space Efficiency» Longer retention» Cost-effective data protection 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 27

28 Data Protection - Simplified A single, easy workflow for:» Snapshot schedule and retention» Application sync d snapshots» Replication and replica retention» Multiple schedules with flexible retention policies 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 28

29 Proactive Wellness 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 29

30 Keep Your Storage System in Top Condition Predictive analytics anticipates issues Proactive Wellness Triple Parity RAID high-performance protection 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE Fully redundant design with fast failover Non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades 30 30

31 Proactive Wellness: Powered by InfoSight 90 % Support cases detected % Proven uptime 80 % Resolved automatically 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 31 31

32 Nimble Storage InfoSight 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 32

33 Infosight Engine: Leveraging Powerful Data Sciences The InfoSight Engine is built upon:» Systems modeling» Predictive algorithms» Data analytics Collects and analyzes >30M sensors per array per day Transforming big data into insights and actionable information 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 33

34 Proactive Wellness Expert systems help enforce best practices by automatically alerting and/or opening a support case 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 34 34

35 Monitoring Dashboards capture consolidated information at a glance, or you can drill down into detailed metrics such as number of snapshots, IOPS, and compression 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 35 35

36 Optimizing Performance Customer deploys additional workloads on array InfoSight presents clear recommendations around upgrades for cache and CPU Systems run in top condition delivering peak performance. We referred to InfoSight s cache performance reports on a weekly basis. US-based Legal Firm 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 36

37 New Performance Correlation Analytics Intelligent correlation of factors impacting performance Eliminates cumbersome manual data collection and analysis Reduces time-todiagnosis from hours or even days to minutes The new performance correlation capability helps us quickly diagnose any performance or latency issues, reducing the need for time-consuming manual data collection." Dan McCurley, Senior Network Administrator, Milliman 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 37

38 Nimble SmartStack 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 38

39 Nimble Storage SmartStack Validated Reference Architectures SmartStack Converged Infrastructures Other Alliances VDI and Server Virtualization Business Critical Applications and Database Private Cloud Servers and Network Infrastructure UCS B-Series and C-Series Servers with UCS Manager Cisco Network Switches Nimble Storage CS-Series Data Protection Snapshots / Backup Disaster Recovery 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 39 39

40 First Nordic Customer January 2012 Customer : In Sweden Before : 2 x 4 Units of Dell EQL Now: 2 x 1 Nimble CS240G Performance: 4 x Capacity: 2 x Snapshots: 9567 Snapshot running Backup: 12 months backup on local array 1400x dedup 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute.

41 Service Provider Denmark Customer : Before : Now: Performance: Capacity: Snapshots: Backup: In Copenhagen 2 x VNX 5500 / DD 2 x 1 Nimble CS240G 3 x 2 x Backup / Development Monthly 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute.

42 Manufacturing - Before 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute.

43 Manufacturing - After 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute.

44 Service Provider Norway 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute.

45 An Established Partner 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 45

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