Jeff Baxter

can provide out to their customers and their applications exactly what they've asked for.

And then the minimums come along and really help you protect your business-critical tier one workloads while still taking advantage of this whole shared storage and highly efficient on-tap operating system.

You can still take those sort of like tier zero and tier one workloads and make sure the trains run on time.

You know, the thing I hate more than anything is someone from a vendor pretending and making up answers when they don't know the question.

There's so much in ONTAP that even if you're in it day in and day out, right, I'd rather get back to your listeners with more information than make something up, right?

Well, good.

Wait, in that case, I'd like to tell you about the following five things I don't know.

Let's hear it.

Oh, wait.

You meant that as a disincentive.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, so people who know ONTAP really well know that we've expanded dedupe tremendously over the last couple of years, right?

It's in line now in our AFF systems, added in compression, added in compaction, added in all these new storage efficiency features.

One of the things that people have been asking for for years is the ability to have a dedupe boundary that goes beyond the individual volume, right?

So it's great to be able to dedupe within a volume and we continue to do that.

But now in 9.2 with AFF,

you're actually able to expand that DD boundary out to what we call the aggregate level, right?

So the aggregate is basically our disk pools.

It's a collection of one or more rate groups.

It can go out to traditionally 400 terabytes, but one of the cool things with 9.2 is expanding out on most of our AFF platforms out to 800 terabytes.