Derek Leslie

How many days or hours would you set aside to complete all that from scratch?

Any other opinions?

And would you guys characterize yourselves as experts or beginners, like generalists or beginners?

So where would you put yourself on that spectrum?

Okay.

There we go.

I like it.

Okay.

So deployment needs to be able to take a generalist and give them the ability to deploy a complex infrastructure.

And we've done that in 30 minutes or less.

And by no means are we claiming we're the first people to do that.

We just know to meet the simplicity score expected by HCI, that's going to be required.

So we did deploy, you know, VMware, our all-flash array, as well as all the VMs.

And it took us the better part of a day.

And we consider ourselves experts in deploying that.

And through automation and everything that we've included in the HCI project with 30 inputs, you're going to deploy the entire infrastructure.

So that's really easy.

And that reduces the intimidation factor for a customer going from the bespoke infrastructure or traditional three-tier, I'll buy storage from vendor A, compute from vendor B, we'll get networking off of eBay, and let's make it work.

And it makes them feel really comfortable that, man, I just saw that this is simple.

I don't have to worry about getting this thing up and running and having my boss breathe down my neck.