Hadrian Barron

And then the final use case is obviously I have 40 shelves on the source and I don't want to buy 40 shelves on the target.

Can I just bring them over and leverage that past investment?

And the answer is yes.

Right?

So that's where we see it being done.

So it's a, you know, it's pretty well polished solution actually.

It's one of those things that you know you kind of hit next next finish like with seven MPT seven mode transition tool we've been doing for years.

That is just you know another example where we just want to do the planning up front, do we have the right cable links all that stuff so that cut over window goes smooth.

yeah absolutely so we do see that quite a bit with cfts as people kind of want to move things around whether it's you know to a new svm saying okay well this oracle data you know we want to delegate control of it to the oracle team you know move things into their own svm and then move it you know move the volumes over to a flash tier all that stuff gets to be done hot right which is cool so

During that maintenance window, moving things between SVMs, obviously, we'll have to go and take a short downtime, right?

Because the lifts will change, whether it's a WWPN or an IP.

The way they get at that data through a different SVM is different, obviously.

But that we kind of reserve for right after the copy-free transition is done.

We'll kind of reorganize things the way the customer wants it to see, the way they want us to.

leverage it for the next few years going forward, and then we'll bring it all online and QA it.

Yeah, a lot.

I mean, I think flex groups is, you know, something that customers have been waiting for for a long time at, you know, in people that don't have humongous data sets might saying, you know, do you really have data sets that are, you know, 100 T or 400 terabytes, you know, bigger than a flexible limit?

And the answer is, you know, yes, right?

There are customers that have humongous environments or

Or on the other hand, they have customers that, like Andrew's a guy who had one volume and he didn't want to manage it.