Case Study: San Diego Convention Center achieves 15x performance, lower storage costs, and instant restores with HPE Nimble Storage

San Diego Convention Center Corporation Tames Primary Storage

The San Diego Convention Center Corporation, which hosts major national and international events and maintains more than a decade of client records, was struggling with rapidly growing primary storage, virtual‑environment performance degradation (50 VMs across four servers), rising operating costs, and the need for fast restores and reliable disaster recovery to meet strict RPOs.

They deployed a Nimble CS220 flash‑optimized storage array to host all virtual machines; within weeks performance problems vanished—about 15× the prior performance and ~40% compression—while 90‑day snapshot capability enabled instant VM restores to meet RPOs. The solution cut storage costs, simplified management, and delivered rapid ROI (estimated ~6 months), with plans to add a second array for offsite replication and future VDI support via zero‑copy cloning.

San Diego Convention Center

Eric Myers

network engineer