Patrick Pletscher
Patrick ist immer auf dem Posten, wenn es um Ausschreibungen geht.
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- Experience
- 32 years of IT experience
- Languages
- DE · EN
- 17 years IT service provider
- 15 years IT manufacturer
- 2 years Team Lead Service Delivery Infrastructure and Software
- 4 years Head of Engineering and Consulting Services
- 3 years Service Delivery Manager
Awards
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HPE Ambassador -
HPE Storage Ranger
Focus areas
- Data Center Architectures
- Consulting and Concepts
- Storage
- SAN
- Server Blade
- VMware and HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Server Virtualization
- Veeam Backup & Replication
- Disaster Recovery
- Data Center Infrastructure Project Management and Implementation
- ProActive Services
Technologies
Further education
- Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) FHNW, IT Management
- Informatiker mit eidg. Fachausweis
Certifications 37 · verified via Credly
HPE Master ASE - Storage integrator solutions 2024 
HPE Master ASE - Storage Solutions 2024 
HPE Master ASE - Edge-to-cloud architect 2023 
HPE Master ASE - Hybrid IT Solutions Architect V1 2020 
HPE Master ASE - Advanced Server Solutions Architect V3 2019 
HPE Master ASE - Storage Solutions Architect V3 2018 A selection. 31 further active certifications are not shown.
Project history 5 periods
- 2026
Public
Solutions Architect
Architecture, detailed design and implementation of a 3-datacenter storage replication solution. ProLiant server management with HPE OneView, OneView for vCenter and VMware Lifecycle Manager.
Public, Industry
Solutions Architect
Architecture consulting for datacenter infrastructure and service delivery.
- 2023 - 2025
Industry
Solutions Architect
Performing periodic system health checks including drafting a comprehensive report. Providing proactive services.
Hospital
Solutions Architect
Design & integration of a multi-site datacenter infrastructure consisting of storage, SAN, and server virtualization with HPE Synergy Blade systems.
- 2020 - 2022
Industry
Solutions Architect
Design & integration of a multi-site data center infrastructure consisting of storage, SAN, and server virtualization.
Industry
Solutions Architect
Design & integration of an immutable object storage solution for secure backup data and data storage.
Engineering
Solutions Architect
Creating a storage and disaster recovery architecture concept through targeted requirements documentation.
- 2019
Industry
Solutions Architect
Design & integration of a multi-site backup solution with Veeam including monitoring with VeeamOne.
- 2018
Service Provider
Solutions Architect
Design & integration of a multi-site datacenter infrastructure consisting of storage, SAN, and server virtualization with HPE Synergy Blade systems.
2009 - 2017
Consulting, design and implementation of highly available dual-site VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster infrastructures, architecture consulting, proactive services including regular storage health checks & performance analyses, evaluations and recommendations, data center migration projects. Additional projects nationwide (Switzerland).
Posts
ExaGrid – secure and immutable backup storage
ExaGrid works exclusively on secure, fast backup storage appliances. The goal is that your backup data is available whenever you need it.
HPE VM Essentials – Part 2
Part 1 covered where VME stood in mid-February. A few weeks on, a fair amount has changed, and we built a three-node VME cluster in our lab.
HPE VM Essentials – Part 1
HPE's own hypervisor, HPE VM Essentials, has been available in Europe since mid-February. Through the Morpheus Data acquisition, HPE has a proven KVM-based hypervisor.
Scality ARTESCA
ARTESCA from Scality is scalable, secure object storage delivered as a software-defined storage solution.
Storage performance testing with vdbench
IOmeter is quick, but its data patterns do not suit a modern storage array. vdbench is the better tool, and this is how to configure it.
Infrastructure assessment with HPE CloudPhysics
Replacing your virtual infrastructure and unsure which resources are actually being used, and therefore needed next time round? CloudPhysics ends the guessing.
Storage performance testing with IOmeter
Every successful storage project ends with a storage performance test during system acceptance, checking the array, the storage area network and the hosts.
iTernity iCAS FS
iCAS FS from iTernity is a software-defined storage solution for secure, reliable, fast and scalable file, object and archive storage.
RAID controllers
If you have configured an HPE ProLiant server, you have almost certainly met a Smart Array or SmartRAID controller. Since Gen10 there is another option: the MegaRAID controllers.
HCI with StorMagic
StorMagic SvSAN is a software-defined storage solution that suits small virtualisation environments with two nodes, turning the SSDs, disks and memory of two servers into a virtual SAN.
HPE InfoSight for servers
HPE InfoSight for Servers gives HPE customers a cloud-based platform for analysing, evaluating and monitoring their servers.
Secure backups with Blocky for Veeam
Backup data is generally treated as the last line of defence, which makes protecting it properly that much more important.
Veeam and S3 storage with ARTESCA
Ransomware attacks have become a persistent nuisance. Beyond securing network, servers and clients, the backup data has to be protected from tampering as the last line of defence.
Securing your data with Veeam SureBackup
How secure is your backup? Have you ever asked yourself if your daily backups really deliver what they promise?