The HPE Nimble Storage Predictive Flash Platform dramatically improves database response times and accelerates application development projects. Increase database consolidation, simplify management and reduce software license costs, leading to a higher business ROI.
Overview:
Improve Database Performance without Compromising ROI
Dramatically speed databases and accelerate application projects with the best cost efficiencies across the entire application lifecycle.
Deliver consistent sub-millisecond latency and extreme database performance with all flash or with adaptive flash for mainstream database applications.
Handle peak database workloads and move database volumes with transparent application mobility between production, development and test systems.
Accelerate dev/test of database application environments with space efficient snapshots and zero-copy cloning.
Increase Database Agility
Meet service levels as business application requirements change. Simplify IT infrastructure management and maintenance to free up IT resources for new applications.
Minimize database tuning requirements by predicting performance use and capacity growth with InfoSight predictive analytics.
Provision databases faster and eliminate overprovisioning.
Deploy with SmartStack integrated architecture for with turnkey database and applications.
Deliver Non-stop Availability for Business Critical Applications
Ensure continuous application uptime and reduce risk through predictive analytics and seamless data protection.
Designed for 6 ‘9’s’ with 99.9997% measured uptime, made possible by identifying and preempting issues with InfoSight predictive analytics
Reduce time to resolve database performance problems by pinpointing complex app-data performance issues.
Seamless and cost effective data protection and DR leveraging cost-optimized adaptive flash arrays as secondary storage even when primary data is on all flash.
Enterprise Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server
HPE Nimble Storage arrays deliver absolute performance and high availability for SQL Server databases, enabling business agility and faster time to market for your business.
Key Benefits
- Accelerate database throughput and cut response time
- Create application-consistent backups with Microsoft VSS and provide affordable disaster recovery
- Accommodate growing database performance and capacity needs
- Improve time to deployment and reduce dev/test overhead
SmartStack for SQL Server 2014 with VMware
SmartStack for SQL Server 2014 addresses the customer challenges of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 support ending on April of 2016, and the significant impact to these customers who will need to make large-scale changes to their data centers and to migrate to a new platform or face the risk of operating without Microsoft technical support and security updates.
This solution provides the entire infrastructure that has been pre-validated and end-to-end tested, including Cisco UCS compute, networking, and Nimble storage, using a VMware vSphere 6.0 environment for migrating SQL Server 2005 workloads to a powerful consolidation platform for SQL Server 2014. The architecture was validated to support small, medium, and large representative SQL Server 2014 workloads.
Nimble uses 5-10x less disk for Exchange than legacy systems.
Microsoft SQL Server
HPE Nimble Storage Protection Manager provides an interface between a HPE Nimble Storage array and the native VSS interfaces of the Windows operating system. This core integration enables instant, application-consistent backups and fast restores.
Nimble SmartStack for Business-Critical Applications on VMware
HPE Nimble Storage SmartStack™ for Business-Critical Applications on VMware provides a converged infrastructure reference architecture leveraging Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers, VMware vSphere, and HPE Nimble Storage arrays. The architecture was validated to support department scale deployment of up to 500 users for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL Server.
Enterprise Solutions for Oracle Database
HPE Nimble Storage arrays deliver absolute performance and high availability for Oracle databases, enabling business agility and faster time to market for your business.
Key Benefits
- Accelerate database throughput and cut response time
- Enable frequent and fast backup, simple recovery, and affordable disaster recovery
- Accommodate growing database performance and capacity needs
- Improve time to deployment and reduce dev/test overhead
HPE Nimble Storage systems provide a solid foundation for your critical databases and applications.
HPE Nimble Storage SmartStack Solutions for Oracle
HPE Nimble Storage SmartStack™ for Oracle provides a converged infrastructure for Oracle database online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) environments with Oracle Linux and Oracle Virtual Machine. Whether you are deploying Oracle on a single symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) server or you are running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on multiple nodes, HPE Nimble Storage SmartStack for Oracle provides the performance and reliability you demand.
Enterprise Solutions for JD Edwards
HPE Nimble Storage arrays deliver absolute performance and high availability for JD Edward applications, enabling business agility and faster time to market for your business.
Key Benefits
- Adaptive performance to meet EnterpriseOne’s changing needs
- Fast and frequent backups for simple and affordable disaster recovery
- Improve time to deployment and reduce dev/test overhead
- Independently scalable performance and capacity without downtime
HPE Nimble Storage SmartStack for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Cisco
SmartStack for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Cisco is based on Nimble's CS300 Series Adaptive Flash array, designed to intelligently and dynamically allocate storage resources for the changing needs of enterprise applications, and Cisco's Unified Computing Solution (UCS) Mini for mid-sized deployments. All Nimble SmartStack solutions are designed to accelerate the deployment of — and mitigate the risk often associated with — new technology.
Enterprise Solutions for SAP
HPE Nimble Storage arrays deliver absolute performance and high availability for SAP applications and database, enabling business agility and faster time to market for your business.
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Key Benefits
- Accelerate deployments
- Reduce risk
- Improve productivity and return on investment (ROI)
- Flexibly scale to easily manage growth
HPE Nimble Storage SmartStack for SAP HANA
The SAP recommended architecture for SAP HANA requires all SAP HANA nodes to be on the same network, together with all the application nodes and storage nodes. SAP HANA requires integrated infrastructure. HPE Nimble Storage SmartStack is integrated infrastructure that combines best-in-class computing, networking, storage, and management into a single cohesive system.
