HPE Nimble Storage SF300
Secondary Flash Arrays Put Your Backup Data to Work

Features and Benefits:

Instantly Restore and Recover

Cloud Ready

Nimble arrays are Cloud Ready, giving you the flexibility to create a multicloud environment. Easily migrate data between on-premise flash arrays and the public cloud with Nimble Cloud Volumes.

Flash Performance with Inline Deduplication

Dramatic Data Center Footprint and TCO Reduction

Radical Simplicity

Manage Backup Within a Multicloud Flash Fabric

For Nimble environments, easily manage both Primary and Secondary storage arrays within a single Multicloud Flash Fabric. Execute thousands of zero-impact snapshots on Primary storage and natively replicate to the Secondary Flash array.

CASL Architecture:

HPE Nimble Storage solutions are built on its patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture. CASL leverages the unique properties of flash and disk to deliver high performance and capacity - all within a dramatically small footprint.CASL and InfoSight form the foundation of the Adaptive Flash platform, which allows for the dynamic and intelligent deployment of storage resources to meet the growing demands of business-critical applications.

CASL and InfoSight form the foundation of the Adaptive Flash platform, which allows for the dynamic and intelligent deployment of storage resources to meet the growing demands of business-critical applications.

Watch HPE Nimble Storage CASL - Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout file system

Key Innovations from CASL

• Flexible Flash Scaling
  Flexibly scale flash to satisfy the changing performance demands of today's business-critical applications.
• Adaptive Flash Service Levels
  Tailor the amount of flash allocated to workloads on a per-volume basis. Assign one of three flash service levels (All Flash, Auto Flash and No Flash) to accommodate latency-sensitive critical applications to capacity-optimized applications, for management efficiency and optimal TCO.
• Dynamic Flash-Based Read Caching
  CASL caches "hot" active data onto SSD in real time-without the need to set complex policies. This way it can instantly respond to read requests-as much as 10X faster than traditional bolt-on or tiered approach to flash.
• Write-Optimized Data Layout:
  CASL collects or coalesces random writes, compresses them, and writes them sequentially to disks. This results in write operations that are as much as 100x faster than traditional disk-based storage.
• Inline Compression
  CASL compresses data as it is written to the array with no performance impact. It takes advantage of efficient variable block compression and multicore processors. A recent measurement of our installed base shows average compression rates from 30 to 75 percent for a variety of workloads.
• Scale-to-Fit Flexibility
  CASL allows for the non-disruptive and independent scaling of performance and capacity. This is accomplished by either upgrading the storage controller (compute) for higher throughput, moving to larger flash SSD (cache) to accommodate more active data, or by adding storage shelves to boost capacity. This flexible scaling eliminates the need for disruptive forklift upgrades.
• Scale Out
  Scale capacity and performance beyond the physical limitations of a single array by seamlessly clustering any combination of HPE Nimble Storage hybrid arrays. Eliminate capacity silos and performance hotspots, and easily manage all hardware resources across the cluster as a single storage entity.
• Snapshots and Integrated Data Protection
  CASL can take thousands of point-in-time instant snapshots of volumes by creating a copy of the volumes' indices. Any updates to existing data or new data written to a volume are redirected to free space (optimized by CASL's unique data layout). This means there is no performance impact due to snapshots and snapshots take little incremental space as only changes are maintained. This also simplifies restoring snapshots, as no data needs to be copied.
• Efficient Replication
  HPE Nimble Storage efficiently replicates data to another array by transferring compressed, block-level changes only. These remote copies can be made active if the primary array becomes unavailable. This makes deploying disaster data recovery easy and affordable - especially over a WAN to a remote array where bandwidth is limited.
• Zero-Copy Clones
  HPE Nimble Storage arrays can create snapshot-based read/writeable clones of existing volumes instantly. These clones benefit from fast read and write performance, making them ideal for demanding applications such as VDI or test/development.

Specifications:

Secondary Flash Array Specifications
Nimble SF-Series Array 1,2	SF100	SF300
Raw Capacity (TB/TiB)3	21-126 / 19-115	42-252 / 38-229
Usable Capacity (TB/TiB)3	16-100 / 15-91	33-200 / 30-182
Effective Capacity (TB/TiB)3,4	288-1800 / 270-1638	594-3600 / 540-3276
Max # of Expansion Shelves	2	2
Flash Capacity (TB/TiB)3	1.4-36 / 1.27-33	2.8-76 / 2.55-69
RAID Level	Triple+ Parity	Triple+ Parity
Onboard iSCSI/Mgmt 1Gb/10Gb ports per array5	4	4
Optional iSCSI 1Gb/10Gb ports per array5	4 or 8	4, 8, or 12
Optional FC 8Gb/16Gb ports per array	4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24	4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24
Max Power Requirement	700W / 0.78kVA	800W / 0.89kVA
Thermal (BTU)	2,293	2,620

ES2 Expansion Shelves
	SF-ES2-Hybrid
Raw Capacity (TB/TiB)3	21-210 / 19-191
Usable Capacity (TB/TiB)3	16-160 / 15-146
Effective Capacity (TB/TiB)3	128-1280 / 116-1164
Flash Capacity (TB/TiB)3	0.7-108 / 0.7-98
Max Power Requirement	500W / 0.56kVA
Thermal (BTU)	1638

Physical and Environmental Specifications
Dimensions	7”H x 17.5”W x 26.5”D 17.8 cm x 44.5 cm x 67.3 cm 4 Rack Units
Weight	105 lbs / 48 kg
Weight (ES2)	90 lbs / 41 kg
Weight (ES2-All Flash)	70 lbs / 32 kg
Operating Temperature	10 - 35° C (50 - 95° F)
Non-Operating Temperature	0° C - 40° C (32° F - 104° F)
Operating Humidity	8 - 90%
Non-operating Humidity	5 - 95%

Notes:

1. SF100 and SF300 support scale up to any model within the SF family
2. All SF Series models consists of up to 21 HDD drives and 3 DFCs (holding up to 6 SSDs)
3. Raw, usable, and effective capacities are shown in TB (1012 bytes) and TiB (240 bytes). Usable and effective capacities take into account space used for parity, spares, SSD cache, and system overhead
4. Effective capacity is a range from minimum in the base array to maximum in the array plus expansion shelves. Assumes data reduction of 18:1 (18X) from compression and dedupe
5. Each array controller has 2x 10 GbE ports built in. Optional ports are 1GbaseT, 10GbaseT or 10GbE SFP+iSCSI, along with 8Gb or 16Gb Fibre Channel

* Learn More:
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Documentation:

Download HPE Nimble Storage Secondary Flash Array Datasheet (PDF).

Download HPE Nimble Storage Product Brief Datasheet (PDF).

Download HPE Nimble Storage Secondary Flash with Veeam Software Brief Datasheet (PDF).

Download HPE Nimble Storage Technology & Features Primer Datasheet (PDF).

Download White Paper: Redefining Flash Storage (PDF).

Download White Paper: Scale-to-Fit Storage (PDF).