Jeff Baxter

They may need to offer NAS for directories for their VDI deployment or just any other general-purpose way.

They can now take vSAN

build that data store on top of vSAN on the internal drives in the system, and then present storage to the ONTAP Select box, which can then present out storage directly itself.

So it opens up, it's basically a Swiss Army knife that really opens up the door to using ONTAP wherever you may have a gap in your infrastructure using other third-party storage and bring ONTAP in to solve that problem for you.

It's, you know, we're continually building out into that select deploy tool.

So the select deploy tool is a virtual appliance, right?

You basically load it up, you tell it, here's the ESX host I want to deploy on, and it goes ahead and the actual binary for ONTAP select is within the deploy tool.

So it just goes ahead and pushes out and instantiates that binary, stands up the ONTAP select instance and gets it up and running on that vSphere host.

You know, we're always improving performance on it.

We supported in 9.1, I believe, we added the ability to do all flash configurations on TypeSelect.

So we're always just continuing to improve the performance of Select.

We're treating it as a first-level citizen alongside our engineered system, so there's no intent to have it be lower performance or lower capabilities as we roll out new capabilities.

they will show up in ONTAP Select.

Whether they show up in the first release of ONTAP Select or not is always one of those sort of interesting Jenga puzzles about which capability arrives where.

But in the long term, it's a first class citizen alongside with all the other hardware, so it will arrive there.

And the performance will just continue to enhance the performance on it.

The goal is that you should be able to achieve Tier 1 performance out of an ONTAP Select box.

I think we're most of the way there, but the work continues to make sure we get all the way there.

Yes, I believe that's correct.

I don't know if you even mentioned my favorite, you know, sporting the NetApp volume encryption on Flex Group now.