ionic cypress
From this blogpost: https://community.netapp.com/t5/Tech-ONTAP-Blogs/The-data-your-AI-pipelines-need-is-already-there-Now-you-can-find-it/ba-p/466921
"As of today, the NetApp Metadata Engine (MDE), the core metadata intelligence layer of the NetApp AI Data Engine (AIDE), is available as a software-only package."
But I can't find any download-URL. There's this one (https://mysupport.netapp.com/site/products/all/details/aide/downloads-tab) but also no download over there. 🙁
Guess we have to wait until everyones back from Converge 
exotic ravine
@ionic cypress Do you have an AFX in the lab yet as MDE today only supports AFX. If so I can connect you with the PM for AIDE to get you going...
ionic cypress
Yeah I just noticed that. I thought it was communicated that the first version MDE would also support unified systems.
Guess we need to wait for the next one.
Do you see MDE also being supported on VMs? The requirements for the 3x third- party server are quite high. For a newly deployed AFX cluster that's no issue since it's only a small fraction of the total cost. But to support MDE for existing unified systems it's a bit high.
proper saddle
MDE is not yet decoupled from the cluster network, that's targeted for a future release. Support for other AFF clusters is targeted for June 30 release.*
I have not heard of a committed roadmap for VM support, but a future vision is to support a customer's k8s environment.
*these are fwd looking goals, Nothing is real until it ships.
ionic cypress
Since you seem to be "the guy": Any way partners can get a lab for AIDE / MDE?
We can't really demo that part of an AFX cluster since nobody can provide us much more than either pre-recorded videos or those "interactive" live-demo sites which are still from Insight-last-years-times and (i guess) do not really reflect the current user experience with AIDE.
proper saddle
I wish, am TMEish and we don't even have gear yet.
humble agate
I wish, am TMEish and we don't even have gear yet.
oh hey, welcome back 🙂
plain storm
Since you seem to be "the guy": Any way partners can get a lab for AIDE / MDE?
W...
There is a (very) light lab in LoD, its missing a lot but it goes through the workflow up to vectorizing/publish data det.
We all want and need more so fingers crossed updates with more functionality and easier access are coming soon.
ionic cypress
Which lab do you mean?
It it's that one, https://labondemand.netapp.com/lab/gsaide - we can't access it unfortunately