1. Nimble Storage – Success Story Nick Furnell

2. Welcome

3. Less than 50 Less than 100 More? How many VMs do you run?

4. 30 VMs 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader 30 VMs 3 Hosts, Single CPU Local DC Head OfficeISP Co-Lo

5. How many VMs do you run? Head OfficeISP Co-Lo

6. Less than 20TB Less than 50TB More? How much Storage do you have?

7. How old is your SAN Infrastructure? Hitachi AMS200 5 years old Due for replacement Head OfficeISP Co-Lo Hitachi AMS2100 1 year old

8. Proposed replacement SAN... AMS200Proposed Replacement

9. 2013 Keogh Report Implications AMS200Proposed Replacement

10. Needed Flexibility AMS200Alternative Replacement

11. Disaster Strikes mid-project 30 VMs 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader Head Office Latency <20ms +100ms

12. Disaster Strikes mid-project 25 VMs 3 Hosts, single CPU Local DC + AutoLoader Head Office Latency

13. Nimble - Testing

14. Compression? Snapshots? Caching? Block Size? Single 6TB Volume Nimble - Traditional Volumes?

15. Data Repository? Structured by Services? Something else? How do you view Storage?

16. Nimble – per Volume based Profiles Traditional LayoutFlexible Nimble Layout Images (iSCSI) Unstructured Data Groupwise e-mail Payroll SQL Backups Veeam Cache

17. Nimble – Manual vVols? Nimble C220 iSCSI Volume Compression & Caching OFF Snapshotting ON Head OfficeISP Co-Lo Hitachi AMS2100 Traditional VMDK Disk Windows DFS Manages file changes

18. Nimble - Volume Summary

19. My Favourite Nimble Features? Flexibility UpgradeabilityInfoSight

20. Flexibility – Volume Creation VolumeCompressionCaching Protection Profile Block Size A OnOffHourly4k B Off Daily8k C On Weekly16k D OffOnOff32k

21. Flexibility – Volume Creation VolumeLimit Access Volume Warning Snapshot Quota Snapshot Warning A ESX90%Unlimitedoff B ESX80%Unlimitedoff C Backup80%20%10% D Linux95%Unlimited20%

22. Upgradeability – Hot Plug Tray

24. InfoSight – Whats going on? Remote Access Engineer ViewGlobal Monitoring

25. InfoSight – Performance Past & Future

26. InfoSight – Want more detail?

27. InfoSight – Impact of Information

28. InfoSight – Under the hood

29. Questions about my Experience?

30. Nimble – Success Story Twitter: @nickfurnell http://Talking-IT.com