Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

• Project responsibility: As a VMware consultant, my primary responsibility is to help client's design, implement, and maintain virtualization solutions using VMware products. Here are my key responsibilities as a VMware consultant:
• 1. Consult with clients to understand their business requirements and design virtualization solutions that meet their needs.
• 2. Install and configure VMware products, including vSphere, vCenter Server, NSX, and other products as required.
• 3. Optimize virtualization performance by monitoring and analyzing virtual machine performance, resource utilization, and other metrics.
• 4. Troubleshoot issues with VMware products and virtual machines, including network connectivity, storage performance, and other issues.
• 5. Plan and implement upgrades to VMware products, including performing pre-upgrade checks, creating upgrade plans, and executing the upgrade process.
• 6. Provide training and support to clients on the use of VMware products and virtualization best practices.
• 7. Develop and maintain documentation for virtualization solutions, including design documents, implementation plans, and troubleshooting guides.
• 8. Keep up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in virtualization technology, and advise clients on best practices and emerging technologies.
• 9. Experience in creation & development of customer SOP’s, Run Book and SOW’s.
• 10. Expert in datacenter designing, migration assessment, Migration planning & architecture and performing migration of physical/virtual datacenter to various cloud platforms.
• 11. Lead teams delivering Infrastructure Assessments, Proof-of-Concept (POC’s), Enterprise Design projects, and Infrastructure Build projects for businesses.
• 12. VM migration to the cloud involves moving workloads seamlessly with minimal downtime. Tools like *HCX*, *Zerto*, and *vSphere Replication* simplify this process.

Jan 2015 – Aug 2021 · 6 yrs 7 mos · ASF Insignia Gurgaon

• Project responsibility: As a VMware SME my primary role is to provide in-depth technical guidance and support to organizations that use VMware products. Here are some of the key roles and responsibilities:-
• 1. Provide deep technical expertise in VMware products, including vSphere, vCenter, NSX, and other products as required.
• 2. Design and implement VMware solutions that meet business requirements and align with industry best practices.
• 3. Troubleshoot complex issues with VMware products, including network connectivity, storage performance, and other issues.
• 4. Optimize VMware solutions to improve performance, scalability, and reliability, including monitoring and analyzing virtual machine performance and resource utilization.
• 5. Provide guidance on VMware security best practices, including securing virtual machines, network connections, and data storage.
• 6. Plan and execute VMware product upgrades and migrations, including creating upgrade plans and executing the upgrade process.
• 7. Develop and maintain documentation for VMware solutions, including design documents, implementation plans, and troubleshooting guides.
• 8. Provide training and mentoring to other technical staff on VMware products and virtualization best practices.
• 9. Work collaboratively with other technical teams and vendors to ensure seamless integration with other systems and technologies.
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Aug 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Project responsibility:
• Run & Maintenance of North America & EMEA Datacenter located including Windows/VMware/Hyper-V/Clustering environment running on Blade/Virtual infrastructure.
• Maintaining more than 2500 server including HP/DELL/IBM Blade & VM infrastructure.
• Taking care of all flavors of Wintel server including Win2k3/Win2k8/Win2k12
• Installation, Configuration & maintenance of ESX server for virtual infrastructure.
• Installation, Configuration & maintenance of Microsoft Hyper-V for virtual infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting and maintenance of HP/IBM/DELL servers
• Installation/ Configuration/maintenance & troubleshooting of Microsoft Failover cluster 2008.
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Feb 2011 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos

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