Andrew Sullivan

They had LUNs, they had VMware data stores, they had SIFS shares, they had everything running out of a single volume.

Because it worked.

And why do I need to create multiple volumes?

I can just keep putting more stuff in here and just expand the size of the volume.

Oh, I'm out of space now.

That's why.

So what finally broke the straw that broke that camel's back was recovery.

They accidentally deleted the volume.

Oops.

And learned the lesson the hard way.

So aside from the technical aspect of literally moving the data and moving the connections from old to new, do you see any issues?

Do you encounter issues with tool sets, tool chains that have been built up around the old system, regardless of whether it was NetApp 7 mode or anything else?

Right.

And are there any any tools or processes in place in order to assist that?

You know, I'm thinking automation tools, right, or capacity management tools, change management tools, et cetera.

Why did you sound so excited about Flex Groups there?

It's in my contract.

Oh.

I get paid by buzzword, so...

Who knew?