Jeff Baxter

And you could at the same time kind of restrict runaway processes or bully processes if you knew about them in advance and you knew what their performance was supposed to be and you had all your service levels set up properly, you could go ahead and restrict them down.

But it's kind of like what you're really trying to do is protect your business critical workloads.

That's an interesting way of doing it.

It's almost a backwards way of doing it, right?

Look at everything else on the system and just try and put caps on it so that you have enough space left for your critical workloads.

So in 9.2, we introduced the second half to the equation, which is QoS minimums.

I will state up front, there are a couple limitations on it, at least to start.

It's available just for our AFF platforms.

That's our all-flash fads.

It's available for SAN just to start, which, let's be very clear, none of us are jumping up and down happy about that.

Those are time-to-market considerations of when we can get things out and when we can QA them.

Going back to the cadence model for a second, I think you can actually expect to see this more from NetApp

Um, where if something's ready and it's not ready on everything, our intent is going to be to have it ready on everything.

And we will get there with successive releases, but we're not going to hold something because we know that six months down the line, we get another shot to do it.

So in this particular case, we were able to qualify it on all flash bags.

That's typically where our customers are moving to for business critical workloads anyways, and we were able to qualify for San.

And while there's certainly business critical workloads that run on NAS and I'm a, um, you know, NAS fan boy at heart myself.

Um, it's, it's fair to say that our absolutely mission critical apps at, at the majority of our customers are typically running on sand and we've had tremendous.

Tremendous growth in the sand market over the last couple of years, actually the fastest growing sand vendor out there.

So it just made sense to target this in nine dot two first.