Nimble Storage Case Study – Bowdoin College, Maine
CIO Mitch Davis and Director of Systems and Applications Architecture Adam Lord from Bowdoin College describe how they completely virtualized their environment and how Nimble Storage provides the storage backbone.
– 100% virtualized using VMware with nearly 400 guests
– Implemented using HP Blades with 1GbE
– Migrated to Cisco UCS using 10GbE
– Provisioned 20TB of storage with compression greater than 1.6X
– Protected with snapshots using vCenter plugin
– Replicated to secondary site for disaster recovery