Hadrian Barron

You call in and you get that, oh, it's Justin.

All right, now I can sleep like a baby.

Sure.

Yeah.

So, I mean, moving bits from any place, you know, any source, any destination, it's generally the, you know, the same process.

uh, story, whether it's from seven mode to on tap nine or from EMC to net app, the, you know, there's a lot of change control and late nights for cutovers.

Cause you know, in us in it, we have to, or, you know, we're always trying to work around our end users schedules.

So that is really, you know, the big pain.

Otherwise after that, it's just knowing about what the, uh, you know, what's going to be different from your source, your destination, how am I going to manage it?

all those kind of things you know how do i monitor it how do i what features do i use how does it map over so what we've been doing over the past few years is helping customers check those kind of feature mappings am i using say a snap lock on the source do i have you know snap lock on the target if not we better you know turn that on bring over your retention level data things like that and you know now we're we're doing it for

Third-party migrations as well because we you know We know that customers want to take advantage of some of the cool new stuff in on tap 9 that they're coming from old EMC environment and They are asking the same kind of questions that we saw with 7 mode to on tap 9 So when you do an evaluation, are you doing this all by hand?

No, we I mean we can't scale and and do them all around the world all by hand so we we have a fair bit of tooling and

We use Unified Parser.

That's a great tool that will do all the pre-checks for a 7-mode to ONTAP 9, as well as some cool tools that we've built in for Isilon that'll go and check through their licensing and all that.

And we continue to build these kind of toolings into our new NetApp One Collect, which is that main data collection aggregation tool that we've been pushing out this year.

I've been helping push out for the third-party array analysis.

So it'll pull all the data, SSH call it, and show us how the source is configured all in one spot.

So you're not having to go and dig up, well, what was that VNX command that showed this or that?

All in one spot.

Unified parser is definitely available to anyone with a NetApp login.