Innlegg skrevet av gjesteblogger fra vår samarbeidspartner Nimble Storage: Steve D’Amore, System Engineer, Nimble Storage.
Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, and SQL Server are the mainstay email and database applications of choice for many organizations. Nimble Storage iSCSI and FC arrays provide a complete Exchange, Oracle, and SQL Server storage solution that includes primary storage, intelligent caching, integrated data protection, and replication.
Nimble provides volumes (LUNS) to servers that are highly optimized for Exchange, Oracle, and SQL Server by providing the following benefits:
- Inline Compression: Reduces storage footprint on physical disks by 50%-70%.
- Thin Provisioning: Efficiently stores actual data written rather than reserved space.
- Snapshot Backups: Instant point-in-time backup that eliminates the backup window and enables rapid application recovery.
- Zero-Copy Cloning: Pre-emptive de-duplication to eliminate storage footprint of repetitive data.
- WAN-Optimized Replication: Dramatically reduces bandwidth required for Disaster Recovery.
Using these attributes, Nimble Storage takes all of the guess-work out of classic database administration by delivering automated storage performance optimization. Say goodbye to the old days of defining RAID groups of varying types and strategically placing database files in order to get performance. Nimble’s Flash Optimized CASL architecture dynamically adapts to changing workloads by caching a database’s ‘hot’ data in SSD, while leaving stale and backup data on spinning disk. Therefore performance tuning is not necessary. Nimble essentially eliminates the backup window as well with very thin, low impact ROW (redirect on-write) snapshots, which can be used for application consistent recovery for SQL Server, Exchange, and Oracle, as well as for the creation of development and test environments without allocating any additional storage or restoring any files.
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