With the Nimble plugin for Vmware you can easily provision new volumes right from within Vmware. Implementation was simple and connectivity in VMware was super easy. We had the Nimble configure into a Vsphere 4.1 environment. This was by far the best storage purchase I could have ever made for my company. I have been using and working with Nimble since the day they hit the market. Let me know if you have any other questions
#Nimble storage upgrade
I also did a minor 'point' upgrade - which went smoothly - and which added a few things from the CLI into the GUI. But I've always been able to get the job done - and I'm not a storage specialist - I am a smaller shop guy who handles all the infrastructure and netwrok stuff.
#Nimble storage full
The Compellent GUI was more full featured than Nimble's (although they continue to improve it) - and some tasks require CLI interaction. So far this has been the easiest storage migration I've done (I've moved from xiotech, to compellent, and back to xiotech and back to compellent in the past)Īs far as complaints - nothing too much.
The migration from our old storage to the Nimble was easy and without any incident - using storage vmotion. Based on what the GUI tells me only some of that was compression (35%) - the rest was white space. In addition we had significant space savings - we were using over 30TB on one system - the same VM's are now using just over 5TB (months later with snapsshots turned on). We moved from a Compellent system which was nearing end of life - most of our VM's are markedly faster, some aren't any faster, but they aren't any slower - the speed difference probably has to do with those VM's having been originally 2003 p2v-ed with the slowest virtual controller. The guest OSes range from 2003 to 2008r2 and as far as server apps we run Exchange 2010, Sharepoint, 2010, Microsoft Dynamics/Great Plains - a few different varieties of SQL server - as well as some other odd and ends. Everything connected to the storage is running on Cisco UCS blade servers which are running VMware ESXi 4.1.
We switched from a Compellent FC based solution to Nimble last fall.
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