12/13/13
Faster and Easier with Built-in Data Protection
Ryan Troy – NorthEast System Engineering Manager
Nimble Fact Sheet
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Founded in January 2008
Headquartered in San Jose, California (Silicon Valley)
Operations in US, Canada, Europe, and PacRim
Successful IPO Dec’13, NYSE: (Up From $21 to $40+)
What We Do:
#1 Build the world’s most efficient storage
#2 Make it the most simple storage to use
#3 Give customers the most upgrade options
#4 Simplify Backup and DR
#5 Provide the best support in the industry
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How is Nimble Different?
– We developed a Filesystem called CASL that allows
us to write to disk faster than flash
» We can sustain 50,000 4k IOPS with 12 disks
– We include all features bundled with the Array
» Snapshot, Replication, Compression, many more…
– Our install takes less than 1 hour
» Our storage is very simple to use
– Built-in data retention and offsite rotation
» Simple way to replace or augment backup
» “Keep 500 hourly copies locally and 100 remotely”
– Low cost expansion options
» Add a disk shelf for capacity
» Add Flash for more read performance
» Add CPU for more write performance through a low-cost
controller upgrade
» Scale-out our arrays with true storage clustering
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CASL: First Filesystem to Optimize Disk & Flash
1. Application-Tuned Block Sizes
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Match the volume block size to the application block size
» Benefit: Better performance and Better snapshots
2. Compress & Consolidate Small Blocks
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With LZ Compression we achieve 2:1 compression
» Benefit : 50% less IO to disk
» Benefit: Reduces storage footprint by 50%
Package 4K-32K writes into 512K writes to disk
» Benefit: 100 times less operations to disk
3. Sequential Write Anywhere Layout
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Large sequential write stripes
» Benefit: Eliminates random writes to disk
4. No RAID Penalty
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No IO penalty for RAID6
No Modify-Write RAID penalty
5. Offload 98% of read workload from disk to Flash
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Virtually 50% of the disk workload eliminated
Disk is primarily only used to write sequential stripes
» Benefit: Disk no longer the bottleneck
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The Best Investment in the Industry
SCALE
CACHE,
COMPUTE
Flexible. Non-disruptive. Cost-effective.
PERFORMANCE
+ FLASH
AND CPU
+ NODES
SCALE
CAPACITY
+ DISK
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CAPACITY
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A new approach to performance and scale
Incumbents
Scale Performance (IOPS)
Compression
Add Spindles
1x
Add CPU
Slows
3x
Speeds
Response Time
5-20 ms
Scaling Storage
Early
limited
Data Protection
Nimble
Sell More
20x
<1 ms
scale
to fit
Mature
Mature
Built-In
Designing a storage file system from the ground up has many advantages
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Gain Peace of Mind and More
PUSH-BUTTON
DEPLOYMENT
 All-inclusive
features
 Built-in application profiles eliminate
manual tuning
 Extensive integration with
hypervisors and applications
 Non-disruptive software upgrades
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PROACTIVE
WELLNESS
 5-minute
heartbeats and
detailed daily telemetry ensure
arrays are in top condition
 Real-time analysis of entire
environment with automated case
creation before failure occurs
SECURE REMOTE
SUPPORT
 US Based Support
 All Tier3 and VMware
trained
 Secure tunnel
enables fast and
easy triage and
problem resolution
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Select New York Based Clients
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InfoSight Engine: Data Collection
Comprehensive
telemetry
Log files, sensors,
status
5-minute heartbeats
>30M sensor values per array per day