Principal Solutions Architect

About Joshua C. E. Fidel

Josh has over 20 years of IT experience, starting as a desktop support engineer and rising to be the owner of his own IT Consulting firm which he sold in 2016. Between those two positions he has been a server/system/virtualization engineer and administrator, network engineer, database administrator, storage administrator and architect, security engineer, and a solutions architect. He has built environments for customers as small as a single server and a few desktops, up to the size and scale of global, geo dispersed data centers for multi-national Fortune 50 companies with tens of thousands of servers.

Certifications: EMC Certified Implementation Engineer, EMC Certified Information Storage Architect V2, VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization, Certified Ethical Hacker, Citrix Certified Administrator, Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator

Expertise: Virtualization, Software Defined Storage & Data Center, Solution Architecture & Design

Entries by Joshua C. E. Fidel

vSAN Policies and Their Effects

September 8, 2020 /0 Comments/in BLOG, PARTNER /by Joshua C. E. Fidel

This article is about vSAN, its policies, and why they matter. During my time working with vSAN, those who have newly adopted this software defined storage solution often experience issues due to storage policies. Why are these things issues? Generally, people don’t know that policy directly effects IOPS, throughput, and latency on vSAN clusters. Hopefully […]