Manager Vmware

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Ravikarthigeyan Ktm

Mobile: +1-610-***-****

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravikarthigeyan-ktm-8a671b89 OBJECTIVE:

I have over 13 years of rich and extensive experience in Architecting, Designing, implementing and Administration in vBlock, VxRail, VMware vCenter, ESXi, VRA, VROPs, NSX, Linux, windows and Cloud environment.

Expertise in design and Implementing of Converged/Hyperconverged/Cloud Infrastructure solutions. This includes Solutions using Cisco-UCS, UCS-Mini, vSAN, VxRail, vBlock, vRealize Suite, vSAN, vSphere etc.

Hands on experience in setup, installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of VMware vSphere 6.5/6.7, NSX and VRO.

I have gained experience in Infrastructure Management Services, Project, Transition, Consulting, Architecting and leadership skills in streams like vBlock, VMware ESX and Linux.

Expertise in Cisco UCS servers, UCS manager, infrastructure.

I have taken position of Architecture and technical lead for various customers.

Experience in Planning, designing and performing capacity upgrades / Hardware Refresh on Infrastructure Solutions.

Experience of working in Public Cloud environments including AWS and Azure.

Hands on experience in setup of disaster recovery setup.

Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result-oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies and face challenges. Always maintained excellent customer interaction. TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware: VMware vSphere, VRA, VROPs, VDI and NSX.

VBlock: UIM/P, Cisco UCS and EMC XIO Storage

Hyper converged: VxRail

DR: SRM, EMC Recovery point and Zerto

Tools: vRanger, vROPs, VMware Converter, PowerCli & VMturbo Cloud: AWS and Azure

Backup tool VEEAM, IBM spectrum

EDUCATION:

B.Tech Electronics & Communication Engineering from SASTRA Deemed University, India. 2

EXPERIENCE:

IPsoft Nov 2016 to present

Sr VMware and VCE Lead

Technical Concentration:

Architect and implement the vBlock Converged products, EMC storage array and Cisco UCS compute components.

Designed and deployed Hyperconverged Infrastructure (VxRail).

Design and implement complex Software Defined Storage platform for large Enterprises by leveraging vSAN.

Install, configure, Troubleshoot and Administration of vSphere 6.5/6.7,Virtual Center 6.5/6.7, VMware VSAN, VMware NSX 6.3.

Deploy and manage NXS Manager, install, VIB’s and transport zones, VXLAN, NSX Controllers, and configure Logical Router and Switches.

Working closely with Engineering & Product Management on developing new ideas and integrations of VMware products to IP Automation tool.

VBlock Infrastructure redesign from Standard Boot Lun’s to vSphere Autodeploy stateless Infrastructure.

Conduct Performance and Capacity analysis on large Enterprise virtual and cloud infrastructure.

Working on Amazon AWS Cloud – EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Azure & Google Cloud Platform.

Experience with complete life cycle of infrastructure projects – Design, Implementation, Installation, configuration and maintenance of vBlock, VxRail and VMware infrastructure resources including ESXi, VCenter, vSAN, SRM, NSX and vRealize products.

Perform storage migration from end-to-end in vBlocks from VMAX to XIO.

Experience in planning and implementing RCM upgrade on vBlock and hardening security of vBlock element managers including ESXi servers.

Designed and implemented Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions using Site Recovery Manager (SRM).

Automating Build, patching process and day-day operations. Purdue Pharmaceutical Oct 2014 to Nov 2016

IT Lead Virtualization

Technical Concentration:

VCE vBlock cloud infrastructure implementation: VMware vSphere 5 and 6 infrastructure: vCenter, ESX Virtualization, SRM, EMC VNXe SAN, EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager – Provisioning (UIM/P), Cisco Unified Computing System and Nexus 1000v.

Expertise in design and Installation, administration, upgrade and troubleshooting of vBlock 3

Responsible for end to end management of the VBlock and its components.

Configuring and management of Cisco UCS Manager including Fabric Interconnects, IOM module.

Created the VMware DMZ environment – using Cisco UCS Blade and Rack-mount servers for VSAN implementation.

Implemented our first VSAN solution – for our Wilson Co-Lo/DR for DMZ production workloads.

Creation and management of Pools, Policies, Service Profile Template, Service Profiles, VLAN, User Administration using UCSM..

Initial Configuration and Management of VBlock using UIM/P tool including creation of pools, service offerings, services, managing service manager including provisioning blades, storages and decommissioning.

Management of UIM using Service adaptation Utility for unmanaging the service, recreating the service, generating reports etc.

Generating CRG report and working on Matrix Upgrade.

Hands on experience in setup, installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of VMware vSphere 5.x & 6.0.

Worked with EMC to develop a storage tiering strategy designed to align systems with a cost/performance profile appropriate to their business criticality/performance requirements.

VROPS configuration and managing business groups and reservations - for compute resources on VMware.

Deployed, Configure, and managed vCenter Operations Manager - for capacity, health, and performance analytics in the virtual infrastructure.

Assisted in DR support using Recover-Point and SRM – for Application failover/recovery.

Experience developing automation scripts using PowerCli, VMware CLI and PowerShell.

Designed and implemented Capacity management tool –Vmturbo. Projects:

As a lead I handled new vBlock design and deployment of two VB540.

Designed and migrated 1200+ VMs to new datacenter and configured the backup, etc.

Upgrade VMware environment from 5.5 to 6.0 and vBlock upgrade (RCM). HCL America, PA Aug 2010 to Oct 2014

Technical Consultant (vBlock/VMware) Client: Shire Pharma Responsibilities:

• Delivery of vBlock 300 compute and storage infrastructure compute infrastructure.

• Logical configuration design review of vBlock Infrastructure Configured and deployed over 40 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5.

• Configured and deployed over 40 ESXi 5 clusters leveraging EMC UIM/P.

• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5 infrastructure.

• Configured and deployed VMware SRM for Disaster Recovery/ Business Continuity.

• Administration skills on Cisco UCS blades/HP blades environment.

• Experience with documentation on RUN books and SOPs and technical documentation. 4

• Worked on large datacenter migration andP2V conversions with Platespin and VMware Convertor.

• Experience with Cisco Nexus 1000v switch and Virtual distributed switch.

• Experience with EMC and Net app SAN /NFS storage.

• Experience with SRM 5.0 setup for disaster recovery build.

• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management.

• Have knowledge in troubleshooting the issues and the incident management.

• Capacity Management (Capacity IQ).

• Managing vRanger Backup tool.

• Experience in good technical documentation.

Hewlett Packard (HP), India May 2009 to Jun 2010

Delivery Consultant Clients: O2 and Weyerhaeuser

Responsibilities:

• As Transition Lead, I handled O2 client. My role was to collect information from onsite engineers, transition VMware Servers developed high level design requirements for technical solutions, designed and Implemented technical solutions. Provided VMware thought leadership, expertise and counsel, facilitate and participated in Meetings and Conference. Did Knowledge transfer to Level 1, 2 & 3 teams.

• Designed and administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center. I wrote the strategy document, designed and administrated the environment. The environment has grown to over 120 ESX hosts and 1000 Virtual machines production environment. I have also designed the performance monitoring processes and improved disaster recovery processes (SRM) to utilize virtualization benefits.

• Upgraded vSphere 4.0, ESX 4.0 and SRM 4.0 between Washington and Colorado data centers and migrated production servers using Dell and EMC, Clariion.

• Design and implementation of a new IT Infrastructure using VMware ESX.

• Used Plate spin and VMware converter to do P2V conversions.

• Prepared high level documents for Plate spin and VMware converter. Patni Computer system, India Jun 2008 to May 2009. Systems Engineer Client: VMware Inc.

Responsibilities:

Handling ESX 3.5/4.0 servers.

ESX server installation and configuration on production environment.

Virtual machine creation and migration and managing virtual machines resource allocation.

Ensuring that the physical ESX servers are not overloaded. 5

Root Cause Analysis for recurring problems.

Configuring Virtual Switches, Vmotion, VMware HA, DRS, Alarms and updating VMware tools in all VMs.

Maintaining a test server with a similar set up installed for doing any proactive testing and later applying it in the Production server.

CMS Computer system, India Jun 2007 to Jun 2008

Systems Engineer Client: National Stock Exchange

Responsibilities:

• ESX server installation and configuration on production environment.

• Virtual machine creation and migration and managing virtual machines resource allocation.

• Participation on QA check for ESX server and VM’s.

• Solving day to day Level-2 problems.

Installation of Linux.

• Basic system administration.

• Checking of the File System and User Disk Quotas.

Configuration of services like FTP, DHCP.

Maveric Info System, India Jun 2006 to Jun 2007

Systems Administrator Client: O2

Responsibilities:

• Basic system administration in VMware & Linux

• Installation, configuration and administration of VMware workstation ESX & RHEL (4.0).

• Creating & deploying new GOS (Guest OS).

• Manage user accounts, groups, local security policies, and Configured disk quotas.

• Installation, configuring and maintenance squid, samba, ftp, http, dhcp.

• Responsible of the new software packages, hardware, drivers, and utilities. .

• Troubleshooting day to day problems in ESX & RHEL.

• Analyzing the problems from the log files for any system problems.

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