Hybrid Storage Technical Papers
| White Papers | Description | Format |
| Scale to Fit Storage | This paper explains how Nimble Storage solutions cost-effectively scale to customers’ specific capacity and performance requirements. Customers can non-disruptively and independently scale capacity, cache, or compute; or combine multiple arrays into a scale-out storage cluster. | 5-Page PDF |
| Nimble Storage: Engineered for Efficiency | Detailed discussion on the Nimble value proposition, features, and functionality. | 8-Page PDF |
Efficient and Adaptive
Flash-Optimized |
This paper explains how Nimble Storage flash-optimized hybrid storage arrays and comprehensive SmartStack solutions eliminate the complexity of traditional storage architectures by delivering efficient and adaptive performance and capacity for VDI environments. | 7-Page PDF |
| Best Practices Guides | Description | Format |
| Microsoft Windows File Sharing | This guide provides a reference architecture and decision assistance for implementing file sharing solutions leveraging Nimble Storage. | 13-Page PDF |
| Microsoft SQL Server | Best practices for provisioning a database storage design that will optimize performance and eliminate database backup windows. | 12-Page PDF |
| Microsoft Hyper-V | How to maximize your Hyper-V system availability and off-site recovery with minimal effort. | 25-Page PDF |
| Microsoft Exchange 2010 | Best practices in designing your Exchange implementation on Nimble Storage to deliver optimal performance, protection, and availability. | 10-Page PDF |
| VMware vSphere 5 | Design considerations and best practices, along with vSphere storage features interoperability | 24-Page PDF |
| VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) | Co-authored by Nimble Storage and VMware, this techinical guide describes how Nimble Storage fully integrates with VMware SRM to automate DR protection, test, and recovery. | 21-Page PDF |
| VMware View VDI | Simple configuration guidelines for optimizing Nimble Storage systems for VMware View VDI deployments. | 12-Page PDF |
| Oracle Disaster Recovery | This 20-page step-by-step guide demonstrates how DBAs can configure Nimble Storage replication for Oracle database and how to meet availability needs. | 20-Page PDF |
| Architecting Storage in Virtualized Environments |
How to leverage advances in storage technology to accelerate performance, simplify management, and cut costs in virtualized environments. | 8-Page PDF |
| Networking | How to connect Nimble Storage iSCSI arrays to management and data networks, and how to choose iSCSI switches. | 8-Page PDF |
| Technical Reports | Description | Format |
| Nimble Storage Oracle Test and Dev Guide | How to architect an efficient Oracle test and development environment running ASM using Nimble Storage and leveraging Nimble's zero-copy cloning capability. |
19-Page PDF |
| Oracle Database Backup and Recovery | This 16-page technical report describes how to leverage Nimble’s efficient snapshot and cloning capabilities for backing up and restoring Oracle databases. Both RMAN and user-managed methods for ASM and file system deployments are covered. |
16-Page PDF |
| Nimble Storage SmartStack™ for Windows Server with Hyper-V |
This technical report covers the pre-validated Nimble Storage SmartStack™ for Windows server leveraging Cisco UCS C-Series and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V Technology. |
9-Page PDF |