 Hello! How are you doing? Doing great, how are you doing? Doing great! We're doing some quick shuffling. I got a presentation coming up and the demo was crashing, so we're shipping some stuff for fun times. Well, we could interview like your Bob, if you'd like. Sure! You're a good part. You're my best Bob now. So yeah, I'm doing a presentation on a Hyper-V with a compelling... We were just talking about Hyper-V, actually. Yeah, we were talking about not Hyper-V. Well, right. Well, he kept trying to get the Hyper-V conversation in there. I'm your Hyper-V guy. Okay. So talk about that a little bit. Sure. So we started with deploying Hyper-V back in 2008. When Windows 2008 released, Hyper-V was a release candidate in the product. And we were actually part of the technology adoption program with Microsoft at the time. And we went live in production on the release candidate code. Okay. So for the past three years, we've been deploying Hyper-V like crazy. We're actually, I would say, 99% virtualized on Hyper-V clusters on compelling storage. 99% virtualized? Wow. And that's solely because there's a couple machines that we haven't convinced the people to...the machines that were deployed two or three years ago that they're out of warranty but they just don't want to upgrade yet. Right, right. Those are the only ones that are left. They're probably running some DOS applications, right? Exactly, yeah. So I think by the end of next year, it will be 100% Hyper-V. Okay. Did I hear that Indiana University was a compelent first customer? No, we're not first. We were one of the first to be using Hyper-V. Okay. So to clarify, I'm actually with a department at IUM with the Auxiliary Information Technology Group. So Central IT runs a lot of different stuff. They run a VMware ESX. They run on Hitachi. They run on a lot of different stuff. We jumped in with about 40 to 50 terabytes of compelent storage and on Dell M600 blades. So it's a Dell stack. It's a Dell compelent stack. Now it's a Dell stack. Right. And so it's just a Dell Microsoft stack throughout. Okay. And we've had a wild time of it. And I think as with beta code in general, things can go wrong at times. So we've come across the whole roller coaster of it. I think more weathered and seasoned and have a very deep understanding of what can go wrong and how to fix it. And now things are stable and we're happy. That's the reason why they call it beta. Exactly. So what are the applications that you're supporting on that? So we're running a SQL Oracle IIS file print. In fact, Oracle was always a little fun, right? Because Oracle doesn't support your workload running in a virtual machine. Not even Solaris containers? Yeah. So we didn't want to go down that route, of course. So we would go to a reseller and say we want to deploy this on Hyper-V. And they would say, well, that's not supported. And so we would either deploy it on a physical box and then P2V it once they left. Or sometimes we would just put it on a VM and not say anything and see if they would say anything. But sometimes, for the most part, the industry now will say, if you can replicate it on a physical box, we'll support it. If it's performance-related, you've got to go replicate it on a physical box. But for the most part, that's really the only rough area. And sometimes you have to sign a waiver or whatever. But we're running probably 10 different Oracle workloads on Hyper-V and 30 SQL workloads on Hyper-V. Why specifically did you decide to do that? We were excited to be a part of the TAP program, the Technology Adoption Program, where you basically have access to the program managers, the PMs, to influence the product. So this was a very young program. We could get in at the ground floor and actually work with the team, be one of the first people to learn it, and actually directly influence it. I was very excited to be able to say, if there's a problem with the product, I can send an IAM into somebody and say, have you seen this, et cetera. Granted, there wasn't... I think in VMware, at the time there was a community of people, you could go of customers, but to actually go and work with the product group directly was a very exciting thing. And how many users do you have that you're supporting? My group supports about 1,200 desktops and about 250 servers. 1,200 desktops. So we actually also maintain the images for the desktop user. So we're running the system center stack of configman, virtual machine manager app B. So we support all of the servers that support all of those users as well. So the Windows updates are configmanager server, et cetera. And the file and print resources. So we've got about 12 terabytes on Component that those users write their videos, files, music, whatever they put on there. That's all living in that 12 of that 50 terabytes. You got them all under compliance there in terms of content management and digital rights management, things like that. So that's one of the things that we have not... We're sort of a fly by the seat of our pants group. I'm getting that. And with the beta code and everything, we just sort of throw stuff in there and throw stuff at the wall. You're a rule breaker, aren't you? That's right. So yeah, we have not done much around... So we do work with PCI DSS. So that's the one... In fact, that's probably been our biggest challenge over the past two years. Once the credit card industry started putting out PCI DSS and PCI DSS II, going through... For the acronym, Unfriendly People, can you give me some... Yeah, that's the payment card industry data security standard. So basically, if you run any system that takes credit cards, you're going through just like with HIPAA or SOX or whatever. You go through just an enormous amount of compliance. So we had to change the way we do things. We couldn't quite run as wild once we got into the PCI DSS realm. Okay. Well, thank you so much for spending some time with us. I know that you have a presentation to go run off to. We couldn't get as much time as we wanted with you, but thank you. For those interested, there's actually... We recorded a version of this presentation at TechEd. Okay. So if you wanted to check it out, there's a lot of Hyper-V PowerShell scripting involved, and we're showing how to run a data center with PowerShell scripts. Perfect. Great. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Take care.