Nimble Storage Overview with Cisco UCS May 2013. Nimble Storage Debuts as a Visionary on Magic Quadrant On the Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk.

Nimble Storage Overview with Cisco UCS

May 2013

Nimble Storage Debuts as a Visionary on Magic Quadrant

On the Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk ArraysImprovements 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 not advise 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 was recognized as a visionary based on its innovative Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture, post-sales support and strategic alliances.

Cloud

Hybrid Flash-Optimized

MODERN

Flash in Server

All-Flash Arrays

Transformation in Storage Models with Flash

Efficient hybrid systems that can flexibly vary flash and disk address all mainstream needs.

Tape, High-Capacity Disk

Modular

Monolithic

LEGACY

Archives

OLTP

SQL Server

Exchange

VDI

SharePoint

Web/File/Print

Mainstream Applications

Real-TimeAnalytics

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Storage Architectures–The Engine Powering Storage

Architected to use disk only; overlaying flash on top results in partial solution

Today’s Storage Architectures

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

Engineered for Efficiency

High capacity disk Always-on compression High ratio of usable

to raw capacity

2-5x More Usable Capacity/$ Responsive flash cache

accelerates reads with no RAID overhead

Serialized writes eliminate need for high RPM spindles

2-5x More Performance/$

Thin snapshots with no performance penalty

Retention for months, not days WAN-efficient replication

Instant Backups & Restores

Scale just performance, just capacity, or both

Scale with zero downtime

Scaling at the Lowest Incremental Cost

DATA PROTECTION

PERFORMANCE

CAPACITY

SCALING

CASL

Gain High Performance and Capacity Savings

Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying ESX workloads

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0.5 ms

Faster Performance…

AVERAGE READ LATENCY

AVERAGE WRITE LATENCY

Actual results across all Nimble customers

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1-4 ms

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“In an IOmeter test of the CS220, the Nimble out-

performed EMC by a factor of 7 to 10 in IOPS, latency, and Mbps”

Community “With inline compression

alone, we’ve freed up 7.48TB of space. Imagine what we can do with that.”

– Calvin Levy, Florida Blood Services

AVERAGE COMPRESSION

Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying SQL server workloads

2.03X

…without Sacrificing Capacity

Accelerate Protect Empower

“The IOPS we’re achievingwith the Nimble array has proven game-changing for our development team.”– Ethan Erchinger, VP of Operations, Plaxo

Simplify Backups, Protect More

Accelerate Protect Empower

Actual results across all Nimble customers running SQL workloads

63%

Protect More Often

CUSTOMERS WITH HOURLY RPOs

Actual results across all Nimble customers

Actual results across all Nimble customers

Protect More

WORKLOADS REPLICATED FOR DR

51%

10%Industry Average (Source: IDC)

CUSTOMERS RETAINING SNAPSHOTS MORE THAN 1 MONTH

47%

Actual results across all Nimble customers running SQL workloads

Protect Longer

“The Nimble backups are extremely fast and non-disruptive – they don’t impact our application or storage performance at all.”

– Steve Tuscher, Director of Information Technology, Grocery Outlet

“With Nimble it takes, literally, a couple clicks of the mouse to establish a backup schedule and meet our data retention policy.”

– Mike Brester, System Administrator, Mulvanny G2 Architecture

“When you compare Nimble with other disaster recovery products, it’s very effective and very competitive in terms of pricing, and it’s so easy to use.”

– Jared Call, Director of IT, Imagine Learning

Simplify and Go Beyond

Accelerate Protect Empower

PERCENT OF SUPPORT CASES RESOLVED WITH AUTOMATED SYSTEM

Actual results across all Nimble customers

70%

Easy to Maintain

2 Line Items

NUMBER OF LINE ITEMS PER QUOTE

Easy to Purchase

3 PAGES

Easy to Upgrade

PERCENT OF SYSTEMS UPGRADED WITHOUT DOWNTIME

99.9%

Actual results across all Nimble customers

“It was really refreshing to see Nimble’s

quote was one line item on my purchase

order.  It just all came bundled in there.   All the things I needed and then some.”

–Mariyah Epich Serratos, City of Cupertino

“This isn't hard enough! I need thick manuals, on-site field

engineers, a complicated support web site, a-la-carte licensing charges, complicated spreadsheets to document configurations, maybe even a storage specialist! Something is very wrong here."  –Russell Roberts, Premier Medical Group

“Just ran the firmware update. It could not have possibly gone smoother. One click to download, one click to update. Watched a live VM during the 8-minute process which never disconnected.” –Kenneth Libeson, Meritage Group

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SmartStack Solutions with Cisco UCS

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Cisco Alliance Update

UCS Storage Certification– Storage support matrix posted on Cisco.com– UCS B-series and C-series– VMware, Windows, Linux– iSCSI Boot, Appliance port mode, etc.– Includes M81KR (Palo) and VIC 1240

adapters Reference Architectures Nimble arrays in Cisco Demo Labs

– 13 installs– 12 planned/scheduled

Customer events– VDI Boot Camp Series w/VMware– May 17 Star Trek 2 movie premiere

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Nimble Storage SmartStack

Solutions for a variety of workloads– Desktop and Server Virtualization– Databases and Business Applications – Messaging and Collaboration

Leverage Nimble Storage’s rich partner eco-system– Virtualization, Applications, Data Protection, Compute & Networking

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Nimble Storage SmartStack for VDI with Cisco and VMware

A joint 1,000-seat VDI reference architecture

using Cisco UCS servers, Nimble Storage

CS-Series Arrays and VMware vSphere and

View Software

Delivers

– High density of virtual desktops per unit of

rack space

– Rapid provisioning

– Rapid response time even during peak IO’s

(such as during a boot storm)

– Lower deployment risk

– Linear scalability

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Nimble SmartStack for VDI with Cisco and Citrix

A joint 1,500-seat VDI reference architecture

using Cisco UCS servers, Nimble Storage CS-

Series Arrays and Citrix XenDesktop on

VMware vSphere

Delivers

– High density of virtual desktops per unit of rack

space

– Rapid provisioning

– Rapid response time even during peak IO’s

(such as during a boot storm)

– Lower deployment risk

– Linear scalability

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Nimble SmartStack for VDI with Cisco and Citrix

Cisco UCS B-Series Servers

1500 Win7 Virtual desktops

–10x B230 M2 Servers

–2x B200 M3 Servers

VDI + Windows infrastructure

–2x B200 M2

–2x Fabric Interconnect

Nimble Storage CS440G-X4

24TB of disks and 2.4 TB of Flash

SSDs

Citrix XenDesktop 5.6

VMware vSphere 5.0u1

Login VSI

– 2x B230 M2 Servers

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Nimble Storage for Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track

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Fast Track Validated Design for 75 VMs (Small Biz Config)

• Flash-optimized hybrid Nimble Storage CS-Series

• Flexible Cisco UCS C-Series rack mount servers

Nimble Storage delivers:

• Performance and storage efficiency for virtualized

workloads in compact form factor

• Accelerated private cloud deployments with less risk

• Non-disruptively and independently scaling to fit

growing performance and capacity needs

With Hyper-V

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Nimble Storage SmartStack for MS Windows with Cisco and Microsoft

Published a joint end-to-end smart stack reference architecture with Cisco and Microsoft

– Efficiently deliver cost-effective virtual machines without a large upfront investment

– Lower risk of deployments and improve probability of success

– Scale to fit application needs by scaling performance and capacity independently

Configuration for 75 VMs

– Cisco 2 to 4 UCS C220 M3 Servers with Fabric Extenders and Fabric Interconnect

– Nimble Storage CS220G (3U)

» 12TB of disks with 320GB of Flash

– Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V

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2-4x Cisco UCSC220 M3

Nimble StorageCS220G

VM Volumes

10GbE

Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect and Fabric Extender

Boot Volumes

With Hyper-V

University of Colorado Boulder Housing and Dining Services

“For any enterprise or educational institution considering a move to a virtualized desktop environment, I would strongly recommend the integrated VMware View, Cisco UCS, and Nimble CS-Series solution. The combined power and performance of these three leaders in virtualization, compute, and storage is unbeatable.”

ENVIRONMENT VDI environment supporting 500 staff members accessing 25

business critical systems and 155 separate databases

CHALLENGES Desktops and workstations were expensive procure, difficult to

manage and consumed too much power Previous solutions lacked stability, ease of use, performance and

scalability

CISCO, NIMBLE STORAGE AND VMWARE BENEFITS Cut overall costs of desktop computing by 70% Helped contribute to CU-Boulder’s environment goals by cutting

power consumption by 80% and allowing for remote work Accelerated new deployments from days to hours Improved user experience and delivered the performance of all

flash arrays at 1/10th the cost.

Virtacore

“Given the high profile nature ofour clients and our commitmentto delivering the highest levelof service, we couldn’t afford tohave any surprises. Despite ourbest efforts to find weaknesses,the Nimble Storage systemsconsistently performed above andfar beyond our expectations.”

ENVIRONMENT Currently manage more than 10,000 virtual environments in

state-of-the-art Tier 3 Equinix data centers globally, delivered via public, private, and hybrid clouds.

CHALLENGES Consolidating multiple datacenters to a single location in VA Onboarding new customers took too long Growing customer base exposed performance limitations of

existing server and storage hardware

CISCO UCS+NIMBLE BENEFITS Reduced customer deployment times from 30-60 days to 30

minutes Customer saw application response times cut in half, compared

to their in-house infrastructure Virtacore beat out larger competitors to deploy VMware vCloud,

based on the speed and performance of UCS+Nimble Rolling out Cisco+Nimble+VMware architecture to Midwest and

West datacenters, with Europe to follow