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Hadrian Barron

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TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

Yeah, great question.

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

So this is really not a paid thing.

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

It's not a professional services engagement where you have to pay a consultant.

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

Although a lot of us are ex-consultants or architects, we're on the pre-sale side.

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

So these are all kind of pro bono for the customer.

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

Once the deal books and, you know, you need help actually cutting over or, you know, pushing that cutover button or setting up the migration jobs, we'll be working with our professional services team or partner professional services.

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

Or nowadays, a lot of our migration expertise is kind of centrally located in our global solutions delivery center, right?

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

So these are either in the U.S.

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

or abroad.

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

We have

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

Teams that are just focused on doing certain migration skill sets like EMC to NetApp with foreign line import or Isilon to NetApp with XCP.

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

And so they're building all their own post-sales processes to go in and reduce risk in the migration, help you guys get going faster.

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

Yeah, I see it too, right?

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

And a lot of times it's just

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

mostly due to people being unfamiliar with how multi-protocol is set up right now versus how it might be in their future, right?

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

So if they're new to NetApp, then they're wondering, hey, how does NetApp do it?

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

Do they fake a UID like the Isilon does it?

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

Or how does it look compared to my VNX or my Solera?

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

This is really just like that operational thing.

TechONTAPPodcast
Episode 88 โ€“ ONTAP Migrations and FlexGroup Volumes

So the first thing that we do is we make it really clear here at NetApp, most multi-protocol situations, they'll be making sure that you have a user mapping.