Dhiraj Dhall

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India19 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of cross-platform cloud expertise
Proven leadership in cloud migration projects
Strong background in VMware and hybrid cloud solutions

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing Architect with extensive experience in hybrid cloud solutions and virtualization technologies.

Contact

dhalldhiraj80@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud Solutions ArchitectureHybrid CloudVirtualization

Other Skills

Cloud Migration frameworksCI/CD PipelineKubernetesMicrosoft Azure VMware SolutionCloud Migration assessmentsCloud Management PlatformCISCO UCSVMware product suitesSRMvSpherevCloud DirectorVMwarevCenterESX ServerVMware ESX

About

With rich 20 years’ experience of cross-platform Expertise- Presales, Architect, Designing, VMware Alternative strategy, VMware exit assessment,business case and migration, Cloud Repatriation, Discovery, Assessment, Migration and Support for "as a Services" concept in Cloud (IaaS/PaaS/DRaaS/BaaS) Azure, Hybrid Cloud,VMware Telco Cloud(TCA,TCP), Azure VMware solution(AVS) VMC, CI/CD Pipeline, Kubernetes, GCP and SDDC, SDN, and VCF, Hyper Converged/Traditional Data-center. BCP/DR Expert(Zerto, Jetstream), migration HCX/NSX hybrid connect. Pre-sales efforts including: technical sales presentations, architecture design discussions, competitive displacement, proof-of-concept engagements, RFP/RFI responses, solution demonstrations, and technical workshops. • RFI/RFP preparation of Hybrid Cloud, VMware Telco Cloud . VMware Alternative strategy and migration • Cloud Solutions Architecture, Consulting and Migration of Hybrid Cloud • Cloud Migration frameworks/Factory model • CI/CD Pipeline and Kubernetes Architecture • Cloud Management Platform and Automation - Multi Cloud/Hybrid Cloud • VMware Telco Cloud(TCA,TCP) • Design VCF solution • NSX Microsegmentation

Experience

19 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Hcltech

2 roles

General Manager Hybrid Cloud COE

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Hybrid Cloud Architect

Dec 2020 – Dec 2024 · 4 yrs

Participate in pre-sales efforts including: technical sales presentations, architecture design discussions, competitive displacement, proof-of-concept engagements, RFP/RFI responses, solution demonstrations, and technical workshops
Lead teams in setting up of Cloud Migration frameworks/Factory model for organizations based on Hybrid Cloud (VMC,AVS) best practices.
Lead teams and help perform application portfolio analysis to identify candidate applications and workloads for migration to the Cloud
Lead teams and help perform cloud migration assessments and providing recommendations for cloud migration approaches including recommendation for public/hybrid commercial cloud solutions.
Lead large cloud migration execution projects involving COTS, SAS products, Custom applications
Lead the Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS) Advance specialization Certification Audit.
Experience in deployment methodologies, IAC and technologies (Bit Bucket, Jenkin, Maven, Jfrog, XLRelease, XL Deploy, Terraform, Code commit, Code deploy and Ansible
Provide thought leadership in identification, analysis, evaluation, life-cycle management, and adoption of technologies in Cloud environments that support business requirements and align with architecture standards and patterns
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Technical Directors, Project Managers, and Project Team members to validate the proposed enterprise cloud architecture solutions
Design of information technology Hybrid Cloud (AVS/Azure) & Digital Platform solutions to meet client's business and (or) technical requirements following HCL's standard processes and architecture methodologies
Work with CxO level executives from client side to understand their Business needs and create IT solutions to address those.
Lead a team on Hybrid Cloud & Digital Platform and Work as an individual contributor as well.
Experience in Kubernetes and Microservices

Cloud Migration frameworksCI/CD PipelineKubernetesMicrosoft Azure VMware SolutionCloud Migration assessmentsCloud Solutions Architecture+1

Wipro limited

Senior Cloud/Migration Architect

Nov 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Cloud Solutions Architecture, Consulting and Migration
CI/CD Pipeline and Kubernetes Architecture and Design
Cloud Management Platform and Automation - Multi Cloud/Hybrid Cloud
VCF
Virtualization Architect - Multi Vendor Hypervisor
SDN
Storage, Network and Security
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Live /Bulk Migration ::: IaaS, Application, Databases

Cloud Solutions ArchitectureCI/CD PipelineKubernetesCloud Management PlatformVirtualizationHybrid Cloud

Orange business services

Cloud Architect

Jun 2014 – Nov 2018 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Architectures (Logical and Physical Architectures) to depict customers current environment and recommended future requirements on CISCO UCS Platform.
Provide support in creating customer virtualization and Cloud proposals, designing work specifications, pricing proposals and writing service description documentation
Experience with CISCO UCS, HP hardware like C7000 blade enclosures,& Dell Enterprise level hardware
Expert with VMware product suites including vSphere 5.5e/vCloud/vCOPS) and hypervisors (4.x, 5.x).
Expert with SRM (Site Recovery Manager) and integration with storage replication platforms (I.e. RecoverPoint).
Validation of HLD(High Level Design) and LLD (Low Level Design), creation of LLD2 based on Implementation
Reviewing HLD ,LLD, SRF and INM of customers and suggesting changes.
Implement new Infrastructure, Enhance Capacity, Upgrade Environment, Version upgrade ( OS, Service pack, Firmware etc )
Update Runbooks with configuration changes

CISCO UCSVMware product suitesSRMVirtualizationCloud Solutions Architecture

Hcl technologies

2 roles

Consultant

Nov 2012 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Designed cost effective Solution on vSphere 5, SRM, using Storage/Network Sizing, Network/ Storage/Cluster/VM design methodology.
Installed, Configure and upgrade vCloud Director from 1.0->1.5->5.1, vShield Manager from 4.1 to 5.1.
Installed and configured VMware Capacity Planner 2.5 and integrated with vCloud Director.
Sizing Memory, CPU and Storage for Virtualization Infrastructure.
Designed PSP(Path Selection Policy) and Update Manager solution for Projects

vSphereSRMvCloud DirectorVirtualization

Senior Eng-IT services

Nov 2006 – Nov 2011 · 5 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

 Installing, Configuring and trouble shooting of VMware ESX Server 5.0 and 4.1 and deploying the security patches to the ESX Servers.
 Migrated ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.0, VC 4.1 to VC 5.0 and upgraded the Virtual hardware in four Node Cluster Environment.
 Managing VMware VDI environment.
 Converted Physical Machine into virtual Machine (P2V). Migrated Virtual Machine from Hyper-v to ESX host (V2V).
 Worked on various VI3 features such as VMFS, Cloning, VMotion, DRS, HA, P2V, Update Manager, Cloning, Snapshots, Templates, VLANs and setting up different advanced networking properties.
 Configured Two Node SQL2008 cluster on two Virtual Machine across Two Physical ESX host as Active/Active
 Integration of ESX Server with Active Directory, Configured NLB on VMware machine
 Designing the backup strategy for the servers and ensuring scheduled/unscheduled backups through VCB Proxy and VMware Data recovery.
 Configured Two Node Cluster with Win 2k8 R2 and running Hyper-V Machines on it.
 Configuration and management of EMC Clarion CX-320/CX-500 storage (creating Raid Group, Storage Group and Assigning LUN to ESX/HP-UX/windows host, Zoning).
 Configuration and Management of NetApp storage (creating Aggregates, Volumes, LUN and Assigning SCSI/FCP LUN to ESX/Windows) through NetApp system Manager, Filer View.
 Configured Two Node Cluster of SQL 2008.
 Hands on experience in Cisco UCS ,Vcloud Director.
 Hands one experience in UCS , UCS firmware upgrades, troubleshooting skills on UCS.
 Creation of NLB through Cisco ACE device.
 Working knowledge of VMware LCM, Capacity IQ and Cisco Nexus

VMwarevCenterESX ServerVirtualization

Tcs

Worked as VMware Architect in TCS

Oct 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon

Currently working for Project, Implementing and Supporting their VMware and VCenter infrastructure.
Design virtualization by keeping redundancy at every level like server, storage, and network.
Installation & Up gradation of ESX Server 5.0 using remote management utilities like ILO, DRAC.
Installation & Up gradation of Guest operating Systems (Windows and Linux Family) on ESX Server.
Implemented all advance features of vSphere 5.0 like Storage vMotion with snapshot, Data store heartbeat etc.
Managing VMware VDI comprise 300 virtual Desktop
Root Cause Analysis for recurring problems, critical incidents and service/server outages.
Proactively monitoring the system's health and taking preventive or corrective action as required.
Checking the entire log file to make sure that the installation went fine without any warning/error messages.

VMwarevSpherevCloud DirectorVirtualization