![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout its history, Nimble Storage introduced various product updates and expansions. In October 2013, the company filed for its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange and subsequently went public on December 13, 2013, under the ticker symbol NMBL. ![]() Suresh Vasudevan assumed the role of CEO, and Umesh Maheshwari became the chief technology officer. Varun Mehta served as the chief executive until March 2011 when he became the vice president of engineering. In September 2012, Nimble Storage secured $40.7 million in funding from both original and new investors, including Artis Capital Management and GGV Capital. In July 2010, the company announced its first product, the CS200 series hybrid arrays, at Tech Field Day. Nimble Storage was established in January 2008 by Varun Mehta and Umesh Maheshwari. It specializes in producing hardware and software products for data storage, particularly data storage arrays that utilize the iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols, and includes data backup and data protection features.ĭawn at Nimble Storage's campus in San Jose, California History In the event of a failure, the interlink will be available for non-optimized path access to ensure continued data access.Nimble Storage, founded in 2008, is a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. You’ll need to configure on the storage array the Zone Type you selected. This allows you to zone each switch, and keep traffic in the zone avoiding use of the interlink which would cause additional hops and latency. You can choose to either bisect the subnet, or use a method of dedicating even numbered IPs to one switch/zone, and dedicating odd numbered IPs to the other switch/zone. Please see below for a table from HPE Alletra documentation: HPE IP Address Zone Types for ISL Configuration To implement this, you’ll need to assign an IP Zone to each of your switches. You must have the NCM or SCM plugin installed on your ESXi hosts to be able to use IP Address Zones, and use the HPE Nimble Storage path selection policy (NIMBLE_PSP_DIRECTED). Using NCM (Nimble Connection Manager) and SCM (Storage Connection Manager) on your VMware ESXi hosts, the HPE Nimble and HPE Alletra storage solution can intelligently choose when to use the interlink depending on paths available, and the current health of SAN connectivity. However, in the event of a switch, NIC, and/or path failure, we do want to have the interlink available to facilitate data access and be available when required. When you have SAN switches that include an ISL (inter-switch link) that are connected to an HPE Nimble or HPE Alletra SAN, it’s preferred not to have traffic go across that interlink, as it creates additional hops for packets, as well as increases latency. He then researched it, and confirmed we should have it enabled and configured. I actually had to advise the technician that numerous HPE technical documents recommended to enable and configure it when you have an ISL. Even though the customer purchased HPE Technical Installation and Startup Services, the HPE installer was not aware of IP Address Zoning and it’s purpose, advising us to disable it. I recently had a customer that purchased and deployed two HPE Alletra 6010 SANs for their VMware environment, where I was contracted to implement these SANs. ![]()
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