Transforming your Datacenter with Nimble Storage Stephen D Amore, Senior Systems Engineer Nordics
This is legacy storage This is what replaced it Nimble Storage CS500 Array (3U!) Containing: (12) 6 TB, 7,200 RPM Drives (4) 800 GB Flash Drives 10 Gbps Eth. or 16GB FC ~90,000 4K IOPS! 40% 50% Real time Compression We have broken the connection between spindle count and performance period. 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 2 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 1000 employees Rapidly growing installed base of over 6,000 customers and 8,000+ deployments Worldwide partner eco system of 1000+ 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 3
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Nimble Storage Recognized as a Visionary on 2014 Magic Quadrant For the second year, Gartner has positioned Nimble Storage as a "Visionary based on its innovative Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture, post-sales support and customer community. On the Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays Gartner combines providers of midrange, high-end and networkattached storage (NAS) systems, and hybrid arrays, and positions these vendors into one of four quadrants Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries, and Niche Players.* *Gartner Magic Quadrant for General Purpose Arrays: 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 not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. 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. 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 5
Founding Premise: Using Flash As A Disruptive Ingredient For A Next Generation Platform The key is to efficiently optimize both performance and capacity, and be flexible and media-agnostic as flash and disk evolve over time Component Flash Disk Need for Flash Varies Greatly Random IOPS/$ 30-100X 1X Sequential IO/$ 1X 3X Capacity/$ 1X 15X Endurance Poor Proven Analytics VDI File/Print OLTP Archives Low High 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 6
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. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 7
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 8 8
Nimble s Adaptive Flash Platform CASL Flash-optimized file system software InfoSight Cloud-based management/support Flash 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 9 9
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 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 10
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 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 11
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 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 12
Breaking the Write Performance Barrier: The CASL Difference CASL is fundamentally a CPUdriven architecture Write IOPS 10.000 9.000 CS700» Achieves double the write IOPS of MLC SSD with disk!» No write-performance bottlenecks as with bolt-on flash architectures 8.000 7.000 6.000 5.000 4.000 3.000 2.000 1.000 CS300 CS500 0 7.2K HDD Per MLC SSD CASL per 7.2K HDD 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 13
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 14 14
How Much Flash is Really Required for Working Set Data? 100% 90% 80% Working Set Size 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% CASL never over-provisions flash 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 15
Nimble Storage CS-Series Arrays: Behind the Front Bezel F CS-Arrays 2, 4 Fibre Channel Connectivity 2, 4 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 16
Nimble Storage CS-Series Arrays: Rear Panel F CS-Arrays 2, 4 Fibre Channel Connectivity 2, 4 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 17
The Nimble Portfolio: More Powerful, Top to Bottom Adaptive Flash Performance & Capacity Scale-to-Fit CS210*/215* Best values for smaller deployments Up to 15K IOPS Platform Integrated Protection Proactive Wellness CS235 Cost-optimized capacity and FC connectivity for smaller deployments 15K IOPS Flash CS300 Optimized for best GB/$ 30K IOPS CS500 Best price/performance and IOPS/$ 90K IOPS CS700 Extreme performance and consolidation 125K+ IOPS *iscsi protocol only All-Flash Shelf Expand cache up to 32TB per system Supported on CS300/500/700, as well as CS4xx arrays 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 18
Nimble Storage Product Family Comparison Value Family Base Performance High Performance Extreme Performance PRODUCT CS210 CS215 CS235 CS300 CS500 CS700 Base Raw capacity Effective Capacity 8TB 12TB 24TB 12TB to 72TB 4TB to 8TB 8TB to 16TB 16TB to 32TB 8TB to 100TB Flash Base/Max 160GB to 640GB 320GB to 1,200GB 640GB to 1200GB 640GB to 3,200GB 1,200GB to 6,400GB 3,200GB to 6,400GB All-Flash Shelf N/A N/A N/A Add 1 shelf (up to 25.6TB flash) Add-On Disk Shelf Add 1 shelf Add 3 shelf Add 3 shelf Add up to 6 expansion disk shelves Effective Capacity (w/ max shelves) Up to 98TB Up to 286TB (2x ES1-H90T+ES1- H25T) Up to 302TB (2x ES1-H90T+ES1- H45T) Up to 844TB (with CS500, CS700 only) 4-node Cluster Up to 384TB / 2.56TB Flash Up to 1.1PB eff. capacity/ 4.8TB Flash Up to 1.2PB eff. capacity/ 4.8TB Flash Up to 3.3PB effective capacity (Up to 166.4TB Flash) TOTAL NICs 2 2 2 3 iscsi Protocol Options Fiber Channel Options 4 x 1GbE N/A 2x 1 GbE (on board) AND 2x Dual 1GbE or 1x Dual 10GbE SFP+ Optical or 1x Dual 10GbaseT N/A 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 2x 1 GbE (on board) AND 2x Dual 1GbE or 1x Dual 10GbE SFP+ Optical or 1x Dual 10GbaseT 1 Dual-Port 16Gb FC NICs 2x 1GbE (on board) AND up to 2x Dual 10GbaseT (optional) or 2x Dual 10GbE SFP+ (optional) 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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Scale To Fit CS700 125K 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 21 21
Eliminate Storage Silos Cluster up to 4 of ANY Nimble Storage CS-Series Arrays Scale to enterprise levels of performance and capacity Consolidate diverse critical applications and manage as a single storage entity 2014 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 22
CS700 and the All-Flash Shelf: Building Blocks of Adaptive Flash 4-node CS700 Cluster 500K IOPS Up to 166.4 TB Flash 2.4 PB Capacity 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 23 23
Integrated Protection 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 24
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 CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 25 25
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 CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 26 26
Snapshots and CASL Performance Benefits Snapshot metadata and hot blocks populated in flash (SSD) for read performance SSD Sequential disk writes in full stripes ensure high write performance Volume Data blocks New data written in a full stripe 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 27
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
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 29
Nimble Storage InfoSight 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 30
InfoSight: Cloud-Based Support and Management Nimble Approach Comprehensive Telemetry Between 12M and 70M sensors per array, daily Data collected every 5 minutes and on-demand Analysis and Automation Systems modeling Correlations, trending, and projections Customer Benefits Storage Management SaaS Offering Monitoring and alerting Visualization, capacity planning, performance management Proactive Wellness Vast majority of cases opened by Nimble! Secure, on-demand system access Leveraging pervasive network connectivity and big data analytics to automate support and enable cloud-based management 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 31
What InfoSight Can Do ENSURE A RELIABLE DATA PROTECTION STRATEGY Multi-level alerting Comprehensive dashboard view InfoSight Engine PINPOINT INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEMS Bad NICs, cables MPIO misconfigurations Inconsistent jumbo frame settings PREDICT AVAILABILITY ISSUES Find the cause of software anomalies Forecast when anomalies could cause availability issues FIND THE PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECK Cache and CPU sizing recommendations Drill-down metrics 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 32
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 33 33
InfoSight Capacity Dashboard Assets Support Wellness Capacity Volumes Performance Data Protection Dashboard Capacity usage by volume Historical capacity usage for all your arrays Accurate forecasting of future needs The powerful data analytics behind the scenes gives me a much more accurate projection of my capacity needs than a back of the envelope calculation. Saunderson House Limited, Leading independent financial advisory firm based in London 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 34
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
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
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
VM-Level Monitoring Agent-less ESX and VM Level stats collection Ability to identify performance bottlenecks at the ESX hypervisor, VM and storage Layers Point in time latency drill down to identify VM noisy neighbor Expands the InfoSight value of providing actionable intelligence to better manage your storage resources: a cornerstone of the Nimble Adaptive Flash platform 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 38
VM-Level Contention Has Become Prevalent Virtualization has caused resource contention at the VM-level» Even in underutilized environments Results in performance problems for virtualized applications» Usually solved by purchasing additional infrastructure to compensate Culprits are bully VMs (aka noisy neighbors ), using more than their share of resources Data analytics can solve the issue! 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 39
VM-Level Contention Has Become Prevalent Nimble Storage InfoSight now gives visibility into performance and latency on a per-vm or perdatastore basis» Move those noisy neighbors» Simplify operations between virtualization and storage administration no more finger pointing» Avoid expense of adding infrastructure» Pulls data from one more multiple vcenter Servers 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 40
Enhanced Visualizations Drive Faster Decisions 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 41
Nimble Reference Architectures 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 42
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 43 43
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Why No De-dupe? 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 data reduction 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 46
Service Provider Denmark Customer : Before : Now: Performance: Capacity: Snapshots: Backup: 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE In Copenhagen 2 x VNX 5500 / DD 2 x 1 Nimble CS240G 3 x 2 x Backup / Development Monthly 47
Database Bakeoff Showdown 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 48
Financial Customer Denmark Customer : Financial Customer Before : 2 x NTAP FAS 3240 / 192 disks Now: 2 x 1 Nimble CS460G / 12 disks Performance: 4 x ( POC 10x ) Capacity: 3x ( 3,58 SQL DB ) Snapshots: Backup / Development Backup: Daily / weekly /Monthly 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 49
Honey, I Shrank Our Storage! 2014 NIMBLE STORAGE CONFIDENTIAL: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE 50
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