Nimble Storage recently advanced their Adaptive Flash Platform with the release of Fibre Channel protocol support for the CS-series
storage arrays. This release marks a significant milestone for Nimble Storage
as it enables them to effectively address storage requirements that are
enterprise-wide as well as quadruple the amount of markets they can serve.
Nimble Storage also announced the doubling of the maximum capacity of their
storage systems to support up to 1.6PBs of raw capacity and 160TB of flash per
cluster.
Fibre Channel options are available for the CS300, CS500,
and CS700 series arrays. The CS300 arrays offer 1 dual-port 16 GB FC NICs, the
CS500 arrays offer 1 or 2 dual-port 16 GB FC NICs, and the CS700 arrays offer 2
or 3 dual-port 16 GB FC NICs. Each of
these CS-series arrays also has the option for additional 1GbE, 10GbE SFP+, or
10GbaseT cards.
So far, Nimble Storage has successfully completed 40
deployments as a part of their beta program to effectively test and validate
the expanded protocol support in real environments. These tests revealed high
levels of satisfaction including ease of deployment and the ability to
consolidate a broad range of enterprise applications and workloads. Other
results included radically better price-performance, reduced footprint, the
convenience of managing multiple arrays as a single scale-out SAN, the dramatic
simplicity of snapshot-based backups and replication for DR, as well as the
benefits of InfoSight’s cloud-based support and management. This beta test was
so successful that Nimble Storage released it a full quarter ahead of schedule.
The addition of Fibre Channel to the Adaptive Flash platform has allowed Nimble
Storage customers to speed up the transition from disk-centric to flash-centric
architectures.
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