Derek Leslie

I bought that.

Where is it?

When can I start using it?

So speed of time to value, right?

How long does it take for me to get value out of what I purchased?

And that just has to be really fast for HCI.

Great question.

Just because racking and cabling skills vary, we've all heard the stories of people racking gear and tipping over the entire row or a portion of that row.

We like to not include that in our statements.

The portions that we as a product, when we're delivering NetApp HCI control, which is mean after we're cabled and powered on.

So from the time we're cabled up and powered on, you can have the infrastructure up and running in 30 minutes.

Yeah, great question.

It more similarly represents the architecture of SolidFire.

So we have nodes and obviously we all know that ESX has nodes as well.

So they're both scale out systems.

So it's a really good match.

And what we've done is we've taken a generic chassis, like a blade chassis that fits four of these nodes or server blades.

And like we said at the beginning in acquisition, you can put either a small storage or a large compute in any one of those empty blade slots.

So the hardware in the front is 24 SSD drives.

So you put those in, six are assigned per storage node, and we don't use any local storage for the ESX nodes.