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SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA

Will Strickland

Staff Performance Engineer

Nutanix

I live in Wake Forest, North Carolina. I have worked in tech for 24 years, much of that in the storage industry. Performance in NAS and the core data path has been an interest of mine for a long time. Currently I design test environments, analyze bottlenecks, and work with product development to increase performance and efficiency. I enjoy working with engineering, development, Support, Sales and customers.

The Challenges in Creating a Clustered Software Defined Fileserver from Scratch on HCI

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This presentation will outline the trials and tribulations encountered over the last 5 years creating the first software defined Fileserver on our hyperconverged platform. We believe that this architecture brings value and goodness as on a private cloud platform but poses unique challenges. Working closely in partnership with developers and performance engineers, we gleaned insights by performance experimentation troubleshooting. These insights were then passed on to architectural changes as we iterated on the design.

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