Yossi Weihs

So OnCommand Unified Manager is an on-premise solution.

The web technologies that we're building it on with HTML5 use a concept called responsive design, where the web pages will sort of auto-size depending on the screen size.

If you choose to use a tablet or mobile device, the pages will look right on them.

That being said,

There's still a hurdle here to jump in terms of getting a mobile device that's off the corporate network access to actually getting to the server.

And that's an area where we are looking into covering with mobile apps and some other support offerings that will be also coming up soon.

Can't share more details at this point.

It is, Phil.

It is.

And that dynamism goes in both ways.

So in the past, a lot of customers liked to stand up another system in a lab, and they were complaining about having to put in all these reservations and all these, invest in putting a lot of resources against that.

With the scale monitor, you basically can give that lab VM very minimal resources, since it might be only monitoring one or two clusters, and it'll work just fine.

And when in production with larger environments,

Basically, it scales up, and we're testing it internally against a couple of very aggressive configurations where the scale is usually driven by the number of configuration settings that you have created inside the storage system.

So if you have a lot of quotas, a lot of QoS policies, you get what I mean.

All of that needs to be monitored, and that drives the scale.

When we had previously set the limit at 48 nodes, which typically for customers that's around 20 clusters, that was with a very high count of those settings.

And what we've found is that based on our telemetry that we get from a sizable chunk of our customers that share that with us, that most customers don't configure their systems in as complicated a fashion.

And that for most customers, unified manager, you know, doesn't require as many resources.

Actually, what we estimate is that most customers, and that's probably around 90% of customers that are running two servers today, one for Unified Manager and one for Performance Manager, will basically be able to upgrade their Unified Manager to 7.2 and retire their Performance Manager server and just keep happily humming along, so basically saving 50% of the resources.