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Introducing the
Nimble Storage CS300
The Power of One: A Single
Storage Consolidation Platform
Any Nimble Storage array can be scaled to enterprise-
levels of performance and capacity. The Nimble Storage
CS300 is ideal for midsize IT organizations or distributed sites of larger organizations. It offers the best capacity per $ for workloads like Microsoft applications, VDI, or virtual server consolidation. The CS300 delivers 1.6x more IOPS than the CS215.
Adaptive Flash is based on CASL™, Nimble’s patented Cache- Accelerated Sequential Layout architecture, and InfoSight™, its data sciences-based approach to the storage lifecycle. CASL allows performance and capacity to be scaled seamlessly and independently. InfoSight leverages the power of deep-data analytics to deploy storage resources as needed bybusiness-critical applications.
In addition to InfoSight, Nimble offers these key support
benefits: access to 24x7 technical support; 4-hour, or next
business day parts delivery; always-on monitoring and
response; and frequent software updates.
Scale-to-Fit with Scale-Out Architecture
CASL’s scale-to-fit capability allows performance and capacity to be scaled seamlessly and independently to meet the growing demands of today's enterprise applications. Capacity can be scaled to hundreds of terabytes by simply adding disk shelves while performance can be enhanced by adding CPU cores for greater overall throughput or additional solid state drives (SSDs) for enhanced read performance. Performance and capacity can even be seamlessly scaled beyond a single array to a cluster of up to any four Nimble Storage CS- Series arrays.
CS300 Highlights
Raw Disk Capacity, Base
Minimum Usable Capacity
Effective Capacity, Base
Effective Capacity, Max
Max # of Disk Exp. Shelves
Dual-Port 1GbE (on board)
Dual-Port 1GbE (optional)
Dual-Port 10GbaseT (opt.)
Dual-Port 10GbaseT SF+ (opt.)
Up to 36TB
Up to 25TB
25-30TB
254TB
Up to 3
1 (included)
2
1 or 2
1 or 2
Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash
Enterprise Storage Finally Done Right
The Nimble Adaptive Flash platform enables enterprise IT organizations to implement a single architectural approach to dynamically cater to the needs of varying workloads. Within this single platform, customers can apply multiple service levels to address a wide range of enterprise applications. Assign an All Flash service level for demanding applications requiring deterministic low latency, while simultaneously applying an Auto Flash service level which more efficiently uses flash resources to cater to the majority of mainstream applications that require a balance of high performance and capacity. For applications with lower performance requirements, the No Flash service level optimizes for cost of capacity.
Adaptive Flash is the only storage platform that optimizes across performance, capacity, data protection, and reliability within a dramatically smaller footprint.
Adaptive Flash is built upon Nimble’s CASL™ architecture, and InfoSight™, the company’s groundbreaking data sciences-based approach to the storage lifecycle. CASL scales performance and capacity seamlessly and independently. InfoSight leverages the power of deep data analytics to provide customers precise guidance on the optimal approach to scaling flash, CPU, and capacity around changing application needs, while ensuring peak storage health.
InfoSight
InfoSight is Nimble Storage’s innovative approach to the storage lifecycle. Through the use of powerful data sciences, Nimble Storage completely transforms the reactive, error-prone support and management experience into a proactive process for maintaining peak storage health. InfoSight monitors all Nimble arrays, collectively and individually, from the cloud. It uses the tens of millions of sensor data points it gathers automatically per array each day and makes sense of them in real-time.
Simple and Seamless Scalability
By breaking the dependency of storage performance on spinning disk, Nimble Storage achieves
a degree of flexible, independent scaling of both performance and capacity that allows customers
to start with the most basic building block and precisely scale their Nimble infrastructure to support the changing demands of business-critical applications—without any downtime. InfoSight also takes the guesswork out of scaling for the future, offering highly accurate projections for capacity growth, optimal cache, and compute sizing.
Key Benefits
• Eliminate silos of storage through the ability to
offer multiple storage service levels within the
same architecture, from All Flash to hybrid
Auto Flash or even No Flash
• Grow seamlessly by scaling compute, cache,
or capacity independently and non-disruptively
• Minimize risk with integrated snapshots and
consistent backups, SmartSecure™ encryption,
and efficient replication for disaster recovery
• Improve IT productivity with push-button
deployment and the proactive, analytics based
support of InfoSight
• Take a flexible, building-block approach to
achieving Cloud scale
Its Time to Join the New Generation
of Enterprise Storage
The legacy approach to storage is becoming a bottleneck in the data center to both meeting performance SLAs and to achieving the optimal rack density expected in a virtualized datacenter. This is leading to bloated data centers, silos of storage, and missed SLAs. Moving to a single, highly scalable architecture like the Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Platform offers:• Consolidated Storage Architecture: Consolidate silos of storage onto a single architecture to manage all SLA levels with unified management.
• Enterprise Strength: Enterprise strength HA, resiliency, and data protection with
virtually no downtime, plus faster RTO and more aggressive RPOs.
• Next generation Performance Levels: Scale performance independent of
capacity up to 500K IOPS to meet the most demanding SLAs.
• 90 Percent Reduction in Footprint: Reclaim up to 90 percent of your storage
footprint with no compromise.
• Over 50 Percent TCO Savings: The average Nimble customer saves over 50
percent across capex and operating costs such as power and cooling.
As virtualization continues to evolve to support line of business application demands and their increasing service level agreements (SLAs), the infrastructure must evolve to support the increased performance and rack density demands or risk becoming a bottleneck in the process. Hence, yesterday’s legacy storage solutions are now becoming today’s storage problem leading to bloated data centers and missed SLAs.
There is Only One Choice when Weighing
the Options
Regain control of your data center with a complete enterprise storage solution that consolidates storage into an automatically optimized, centrally managed storage environment supporting all SLA tiers, at optimal virtualized densities.
Consolidate to a Single
Storage Architecture
Single Architecture
Consolidated Support for all SLA Tiers
Simplify Management
Set and Forget with Actionable Alerts for
Always Optimized Environment
Enterprise Scale
PBs of Capacity
Grow Seamlessly
Scale Performance Independently of Capacity
Minimize Risk
Integrated Data Protection and Security
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CASL
Architecture
Nimble Storage solutions are built on its patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL™) architecture. CASL leverages the unique properties of flash and disk to deliver high performance and capacity – all within a dramatically small footprint.CASL and InfoSight™ form the foundation of the Adaptive Flash platform, which allows for the dynamic and intelligent deployment of storage resources to meet the growing demands of business-critical applications.
Nimble Storage Scale Out Cluster
Key Innovations from CASL
Flexible Flash Scaling - Flexibly scale flash to satisfy the changing performance demands of today’s business-critical applications.
Adaptive Flash Service Levels - Tailor the amount of flash allocated to workloads on a per-volume basis. Assign one of three flash service levels (All Flash, Auto Flash and No Flash) to accommodate latency-sensitive critical applications to capacity-optimized applications, for
management efficiency and optimal TCO.
Dynamic Flash-Based Read Caching - CASL caches “hot” active data onto SSD in real time,
without the need to set complex policies. This way it can instantly respond to read requests
up to 10X faster than traditional bolt-on or tiered approach to flash.
Write-Optimized Data Layout - CASL collects or coalesces random writes, compresses them,
and writes them sequentially to disks. This results in write operations that are as much as 100x faster than traditional disk-based storage.
Inline Compression - CASL compresses data as it is written to the array with no performance impact. It takes advantage of efficient variable block compression and multicore processors. A recent measurement of our installed base shows average compression rates from 30 to 75 percent for a variety of workloads.
Scale-to-Fit Flexibility - CASL allows for the non-disruptive and independent scaling of performance and capacity. This is accomplished by either upgrading the storage controller (compute) for higher throughput, moving to larger flash SSD (cache) to accommodate more
active data, or by adding storage shelves to boost capacity. This flexible scaling eliminates
the need for disruptive forklift upgrades.
Scale Out - Scale capacity and performance beyond the physical limitations of a single array by seamlessly clustering any combination of Nimble Storage hybrid arrays. Eliminate capacity silos and performance hotspots, and easily manage all hardware resources across the cluster as a single storage entity.
Snapshots and Integrated Data Protection - CASL can take thousands of point-in-time instant snapshots of volumes by creating a copy of the volumes’ indices. Any updates to existing data or new data written to a volume are redirected to free space (optimized by CASL’s unique data layout). This means there is no performance impact due to snapshots and snapshots take little incremental space as only changes are maintained. This also simplifies restoring snapshots, as
no data needs to be copied.
Efficient Replication - Nimble Storage efficiently replicates data to another array by transferring compressed, block-level changes only. These remote copies can be made active if the primary array becomes unavailable. This makes deploying disaster data recovery easy and affordable, especially over a WAN to a remote array where bandwidth is limited.
Zero-Copy Clones - Nimble Storage arrays can create snapshot-based read/writeable clones of existing volumes instantly. These clones benefit from fast read and write performance, making them ideal for demanding applications such as VDI or test/development.
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