Nimble Storage Replication
This is something which is the top most feature of this product and the largest advantage of the platform next to the well known deduplication and compression capabilities.
Nimble storage replication. Hpe also enabled the ability to do metro clustering between nimble storage arrays in the same release. Hpe nimble storage leverages flash storage and predictive analytics to eliminate the gap and guarantee 99 9999 availability delivering the best all flash capacity per terabyte in the industry and future proofing design for value today and tomorrow. Is it possible to replicate a specific volume on upstream device manually. Allowing storage interactive workflows to be initiated from srm.
We set up one successfully at our production site and now we are tasked with setting up the 2nd one at our dr site. By creating a partner on each of the two arrays replication is automatically set up. We have successfully seeded our back ups onsite and have taken the 2nd unit to the dr site. Great blog i am a nimble storage fans just read nimble documentation about replication but still do not know exactly how does nimble s replication work what is replica promote demote handover claim.
The sra is the main integration point between srm and nimble. You can configure nimble arrays to have up to fifty replication partners also known as replication stores in hpe cv. You can set up replication between two nimble arrays or a nimble array and hpe cloud volumes hpe cv. Power business critical apps leverage an enterprise grade platform with proven and guaranteed 6 9s availability and extreme data integrity and resiliency.
All nimble storage arrays are listed on the vmware compatibility guide and nimble have been providing a vmware specific storage replication adapter sra since version 5 1 of srm. Hpe announced the new capability this week during hpe discover in madrid but it went beyond simple replication in the same announcement. Hpe nimble storage make it easy to accelerate innovation without worrying about your storage. We are running into issues with figuring out how to route the replication traffic.
We have purchased two nimble storage cs220 arrays. Nimble was always on par with 3par in the midrange storage category it was safe to say it can perform under sub milisecond latency can squeeze 300k iops for sure. Vape presented why he we think s hpe nimble is getting to the level around functionalities that are required in enterprise segment in order to take it seriously by everyone. What s the correlation between replication and volume collection.