Hadrian Barron

And so we have to remember that we have an IT tools that we can bring up and say, hey, if this jobs, you know, if these jobs, these analytical jobs could get done, you know, 50% faster, what would that mean, right?

And that's

That's that idea of saying, hey, what do I have on my source environment?

I'm planning on migrating it, and how will I lay it down on a target?

Should I be taking advantage of some of these technologies?

Because in IT, we can't be seen as a cost center.

Everyone will just migrate it to a cloud, right?

So we need to be bringing in that kind of consultative attitude in looking at, how can I bring a big value to my business?

Flex Groups is one of those ways that

I see us doing that.

We talked a lot about NAS migrations, but SAN migrations are a big thing that people have to do often, especially with workloads that are requiring flash.

Your Oracle environments, your SAP environments, your MS SQL, these big, highly transactional types of data need to be coming over SAN protocol.

So XCP, things like that can be used if you install them on a server that has access to that LUN, but oftentimes we're leveraging something like foreign LUN import, which comes with data on tap, it's just built into the OS.

So I've been involved in a few multi-petabyte migrations with FLI as well as little ones, but it really is kind of a fantastic way to help customers do migrations themselves.

There's an automation pack on our automation store for foreign line import, or it's a pretty straightforward UI at the command line.

And it's you know it's big thing is that it'll do online migration, so the net up ends up being.

front ending someone else's lunch, whether it's on a vmax or an HP three par or whatever, so you put the net up in the path, it can start copying the data in the background host links it's talking to in that up.

And you can just take off the old LUN off the VMAX or whomever it's on in the background later on without a second outage.

So you really have that one reboot to get the NetApp in the path.

You do your rezoning, and then your migration is almost done.