True Efficiency & Converged Storage for Virtual Server and Desktop Environments Glenn Stewart - Systems Engineer Fr

1. True Efficiency & Converged Storage for Virtual Server and Desktop Environments Glenn Stewart - Systems Engineer Frank Moll – Eastern Canada Sales Manager

2. Company Snapshot • Company Snapshot • Founded in January 2008; Started shipping in August 2010 • Headquartered in San Jose, CA • 170 employees and rapidly growing • Operations in US, Canada and Europe • Record-Setting Momentum Since Launch • Revenue ramp faster than any storage array startup • Employee base has quadrupled in the last 12 months • Rapidly growing installed base of over 400 customers • Foundations for Innovative Technology • Leadership team with deep technical expertise and industry experience • Top tier investors :

3. The Founding Premise – Capacity/Performance @ Odds Capacity optimization Technology Enablers • Flash – a dramatic change!! • High density, low cost drives • Multi-core CPUs Can we optimize all of these simultaneously? Data Protection Ease of administration Performance optimization

4. The Nimble Storage Paradigm Today Nimble Storage Applications Performance andCapacity Efficiency – OR – HighRPMDrives HighCapacityDrives HighCapacityDrives Primary True efficiency. Radically Better Data Protection Server Server Backup Converged storage. Pain-FreeOperations VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM DisasterRecovery

5. Nimble Optimized for Virtual Environments Performance andCapacity Efficiency Better DR and Backups Pain-FreeOperations vStorage APIs for Array Integration Big performance and density gains • Consolidate performance hungry apps • Dramatically increase VM density Huge storage savings • 2–4x compression • Zero copy clones saves up to 95% in space • Thin snapshots require 50x–100x less space than full copies Native stack integrations • vStorage APIs enable rapid provisioning • Instant clones from gold images available through vCenter plug-ins VMware vSphere Nimble vCenter Plug-ins API

6. Nimble VMware Integration

7. VDI Challenges and Stresses • User experience demand • Cost per desktop • Impact on existing virtualization infrastructure • Proper sizing • Growth • Tuning • Protection (Backup and DR) • Administration (Overcoming complexity) VDI Infrastructure Hypervisor

8. VDI Demands Responsive, High-Performance Storage VDI Storage Requirements for Hundreds Desktops Boot Storm AV Scansand Patches Workday 9:00 AM 6:00 PM 10:00 PM

9. Nimble’s CASL Architecture Inline Compression NIMBLE ARRAY • Variable-size blocks enable fast inline compression, saving 30-75% • Unique ability to compress data even for performance-sensitive applications DRAM NVRAM NVRAM

10. Nimble’s CASL Architecture Inline Compression NIMBLE ARRAY • CASL delivers very high write performance by always writing data sequentially to disk: • HDDs are poor at random IO but good at sequential I/O • CASL always organizes random writes into large sequential stripes • Using low-cost, high-density HDDs coupled with compression lowers costs substantially DRAM All Data NVRAM NVRAM High-Capacity Disk Storage

11. Nimble’s CASL Architecture • CASL uses Flash SSDs as a cache to accelerate reads • CASL is over 10 times more cost-effective in using flash: • MLC flash: Converting random writes to sequential writes minimizes “write amplification”, allowing the use of MLC SSDs • No RAID overhead: CASL uses flash as a cache, thus avoiding the overhead of RAID protection • Compression: Data on flash is compressed, saving space Inline Compression NIMBLE ARRAY DRAM All Data Cache-worthyData Large Adaptive Flash Cache NVRAM NVRAM High-Capacity Disk Storage

12. Nimble’s CASL Architecture Inline Compression • CASL facilitates hundreds of backups in the same system: • Space efficient backups • Backup windows completely eliminated as backups are near-instantaneous • Restore time is in seconds • Local replication facilitates instantaneous failover in the event of a system failure • WAN efficient replication facilitates disaster recovery NIMBLE ARRAY DRAM All Data Cache-worthyData Large Adaptive Flash Cache NVRAM NVRAM High-Capacity Disk Storage Integrated Backup DR Site

13. Major Space and Power Reduction 30U replaced by 3U • Replaced 30u of storage • with 3u of Nimble from a • space perspective. • On the same CS240 we were able to cut processing time of a Informix DB from 1hr45min to 42 min! • DB was VMotioned over from a EMC Cx310 with 40 300GB FC 4GB drives to a Nimble CS240. • This is just one example of what our customers are experiencing

14. A Better Paradigm for Backup, DR, and Data Recovery Performance andCapacity Efficiency Radically Better Data Protection Pain-FreeOperations Application and VM consistent Hypervisor “By capturing virtual desktops via snapshot technology, the complete state of the desktop is protected. This also enables multiple recovery options, including physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-physical and virtual-to-virtual.” – Lauren Whitehouse, ESG Cost-effective replication and cascaded snapshots (vaulting) simplifies DR as well as failover

15. Pain-Free Operations Performance andCapacity Efficiency Radically Better Data Protection Pain-FreeOperations Easy to configure and use Proactive wellness: beyond support Deep application integration • Single SKU for all features • Intuitive management; Simple UI • Non-disruptive software upgrades • Real-time telemetry and health checks • Automated alerting and case creation • Configurable secure remote access • Deep VMware and Microsoft Integration • Application consistent data protection • Pre-configured application profiles

16. Observations & Results • Workloads are “interesting” • IOPS is not a best measure – latency (user experience) is better • IO sizes across the board – 4K to 64K+ (mostly random) • read/write ratios trend toward 50/50 (or as much as 20/80) • producing workloads is tough – agreeing on results – tougher • variances can be problematic • boot storms, login storms, scans, updates, backups • steady state – light user -> heavy user ?? • Test environments are tricky to manage • managing large “real” workloads • effect of hypervisor configuration (server, network etc.) • Order of Magnitude workload shift

17. ”Tearless” VDI Storage Performance & Capacity Requirements VDI Requirements Nimble Storage Tiered Storage Controllers Required IOPS 10,000 SSD* Swap - 500 GB OS Base Image 250 GB 15k SAS OS Replicas 1,500 GB SATA User Profiles 1,000 GB User Data 10,000 GB Backup

19. Nimble Tuned for VDI

20. Nimble Storage VDI Benefits • Increased performance and density • Flash caching supports boot storms • Sequential layout accelerates writes, supports AV / patching operations • Result: 10x more desktop density VDI Infrastructure Hypervisor

21. Nimble Storage VDI Benefits • Increased performance and density • Flash caching supports boot storms • Sequential layout accelerates writes, supports AV / patching operations • Result: 10x more desktop density • Huge storage savings • 50% inline compression • Thin provisioning • Zero-copy clones for master versioning • Result: 50-90% space savings VDI Infrastructure Hypervisor

22. Nimble Storage VDI Benefits • Increased performance and density • Flash caching supports boot storms • Sequential layout accelerates writes, supports AV / patching operations • 10x more desktop density • Result: 10x more desktop density • Huge storage savings • 50% inline compression • Thin provisioning • Zero-copy clones for master Versioning • Result: 50-90% space savings • Improved data protection • Take frequent snapshots with no performance impact • Efficient VDI storage replication • Result: complete, affordable backup and disaster recovery VDI Infrastructure Hypervisor ONSITE OFFSITE

23. Nimble Products

24. Canadian Clients

25. Learn More For more information, visit www.nimblestorage.com: • Detailed product and solution information • White papers, analyst reports, and best practices guides • Local events and conferences For an onsite/Webexbriefing, contact fmoll@nimblestorage.com

26. Thank You