Information Technology Data Center

Venkata Krishna Mallemarapu

VMWare Cloud Engineer Email: *******.*****@*****.***

Location: Mansfield, Texas, USA Phone: +1-347-***-****

Professional Summary

Expertise Experience in Information Technology platform hosting services and MSP.

Performed various roles including VMware consultant and technical team lead, Systems integrations specialist advisor, pre/post sales Solutions Architect, and Escalation manger across 100+ sites.

Experienced and motivated Systems Advisor focused on Cloud, hyper-converged infrastructure, and Virtualization to provide high-quality and positive results. Proven ability to leverage technology to achieve organizational objectives.

Innovative problem-solver, Whose technical areas of expertise include hyper-converged platforms, Virtualization, Storage, backups & replication, Operating systems, hardware, and systems integration.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/venkata-krishna-mallemarapu/

Credly Certifications: https://www.credly.com/users/venkata-krishna-mallemarapu

Infrastructure Experience:

Virtualization Technologies

VMC on AWS, VMware Cloud Foundation VCF, VMware HCX, VMware vSphere 7.x, 6.x, 5. x and 4.x, vSAN 6.x, VMware NSX, ESXi 6.x, ESXi 5.x, ESX/ESXi, VMware Horizon View, VMware enterprise converter, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR), SRM, VMware vFabric, and vCloud Director Suites, vRealize Operations, Microsoft Hyper -V and Amazon EC2. Kubernates, Terraform, Github, VMware to Azure migration

Desktop Operating Systems

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows, Mac OS X 10. X and Mac Servers.

Serves OS / Hardware /Storage

Windows 2016, 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000 Servers, VMware VCF, VxRail, Cisco UCS with fabric interconnects, Dell M1000e, HP Blade Chassis C7000 and C3000, Lenovo Chassis Flex system and BladeCenter H. HP, Dell, Lenovo, IBM standalone server hardware HP EVA Storage 8400, NetApp NAS, Netapp C-mode and 7-mode storage systems.

Applications

Microsoft Project, Visio, OneNote, and Microsoft Office 2016 products include Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, and SharePoint.

Backup and Replication, Workload Optimization, and Automation tools

VMware HCX, Veeam Backup & Replication, Actifio enterprise backup, and recovery, Zerto, Symantec Backup Exec, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery, Plate Spin Power Convert, Vizion Core. vRanger, vFogLight Monitoring Tools, VMware vRealize Operations, and Turbonomics Workload optimization and automation tools.

Highlights

Experienced in managing large enterprise data center environments and leading data center migration projects.

Effectively collaborated with vendors to source and procure enterprise-grade hardware, negotiating cost-effective contracts while ensuring compatibility with IT infrastructure, adherence to quality standards, and alignment with budget and regulatory compliance requirements.

Strong background in hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI), Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC), and virtualization and cloud technologies.

Worked as a technical lead for large platform hosting services groups.

Disaster Recovery Plan & Design and implementation experience and Business Continuity execution.

Education

Institution:

University of the Cumberlands

Result/Degree:

Master of Science in Information Technology

Institution:

Jawaharlal Technological University, Hyderabad, India

Result/Degree:

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics Specialization in Bio-Medical engineering

Institution:

Government Institute of Electronics (GIET), State Board of Technical Education and Training (S.B.T.E&T), Hyderabad.

Result/Degree:

Associate Diploma, Electronics Specialization in Bio-Medical engineering

Additional Information/Memberships

A technical reviewer at Packt publishing recently completed the book Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions

A technical reviewer at Packt publishing recently completed the book Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices

VMware User Group (VMUG) Member.

IEEE member.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certification badges: https://www.credly.com/users/venkata-krishna-mallemarapu

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate – 2024

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) - 2024

VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2024

AWS Partner: Cloud Economics Essentials.

AWS Partner: Technical Accredited.

AWS Partner: Sales Accreditation.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - 2022.

VMware Certified Master Specialist - VMware Cloud on AWS 2022

VMware Certified Professional - Desktop Management 2022

VMware Certified Specialist - vSAN 2022

Double VCP – Network Virtualization & Desktop Mobility

Double VCP – Data Center Virtualization & Desktop Mobility

Dell Technologies Cloud Platform Implementor 2020

VMware Certified Implementation Expert - Data Center Virtualization 2020 (VCIX-DCV 2020)

VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Deployment 2020 (VCAP - DCV Deploy 2020)

VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Design 2020 (VCAP-DCV Design 2020)

VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2020 (VCP-DCV 2020)

Dell EMC DTCP-VCF on VxRail Deployment - Dell EMC Partner's

Dell Technologies Cloud Platform 2019 Certified.

Dell EMC Specialist – Implementation Engineer, VxRail Appliance (DCS-IE)

Dell EMC Associate – Converged Systems and Hybrid Cloud

VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV)

VMware vSAN 2107 Specialist: vSAN 6. x

VMware Certified Professional 6 - Network Virtualization (NSX v6.2)

VMware Certified Professional 5 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV)

Nutanix Platform Professional (NPP)

NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

VCE Certified Converged Infrastructure Associate (VCE-CIA)

Training:

VCF 3.9.0 on VxRail Design & Implementation

Veeam Certified Engineer Training- (VMCE9.5)

Isilon Administration and Management

Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Deployment

Implementing an Advanced Server Infrastructure

Microsoft Azure Integration and Security

Architecting on AWS

Firewalls Training – Cisco PIX/ASA, Check Point, and NETASQ – UTM

Red Hat Certified Engineer — RHCE

Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP-2008)

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Training

EHCE: Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures Expert – Training

Work Experience

Effectual

Position/Title: VMWare Cloud Engineer June, 2022, to Current

Environment: Horizon on VMware Cloud on AWS, VMWare cloud on AWS, VxRail Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, VMware HCX, VMware NSX, VMWare SDDC/HCI, VMware vSphere 7.x, 6.x, 5.x, 4.x and Virtual Infrastructure 3.5, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR)

Primary Responsibilities:

Drive design with innovation at the core for modernizing environments by employing private and public clouds for business solutions.

Published and presented effective IT vision to senior management while addressing objections, with detailed strategies and a road map justifying the selection of technologies, which serve to achieve the business objectives.

End-to-End Project Ownership: Successfully drove the entire project lifecycle, from pre-sales engagements and solution design to post-sales deployment and optimization. Collaborated with stakeholders to deliver hybrid cloud modernization solutions, leveraging VMware HCX for seamless workload migration, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

Comprehensive Solution Delivery: Partnered with cross-functional teams to plan and execute scalable, innovative IT strategies, aligning technical designs with business objectives. Delivered end-to-end implementations, including network configurations, multi-cloud integrations, and automation workflows, ensuring seamless transitions and stakeholder satisfaction.

Designed and deployed VMware HCX to enable smooth hybrid cloud operations, ensuring it’s scalable and performs well for migrating workloads and disaster recovery.

Set up Layer 2 network extensions with HCX to keep the same IP addresses for VMs during migrations, minimizing disruptions and downtime.

Migrated virtual machines using HCX features like vMotion, Bulk Migration, and Replication-Assisted vMotion (RAV) to make the process secure and efficient.

Customized HCX configurations to fit business needs, including optimizing bandwidth, pairing sites, and deploying appliances in multi-cloud setups.

Manage the design and implementation of large-scale data ecosystems including data management, governance, and the integration of structured and unstructured data to

generate insights leveraging Private Cloud-based platforms, including data cleansing and conversions, interface design/development, systems development life cycle, etc

Improve internal processes, and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the community of practice, blogs, and other forms of market eminence

Responsible for deploying automation workflows using vCenter orchestrator AWS CloudFormation etc.

Installing/configuring NSX-T, VPN, HCX, SRM, VCDR, and Distributed Virtual Switches

Connecting existing on-premises systems to VMC on AWS SDDC(s) using VPN or Direct Connect connection(s)

Architect and deploy multiple business continuity strategies using VMware HCX / Zerto / DELL EMC Products.

Delivering presentations to stakeholders on topics such as migration plans, sequencing, technical options, limitations, etc.; serving as an overall subject matter expert throughout all stages of engagement delivery

Mohawk Industries/Dal-Tile

Position/Title: Infrastructure Engineer III September, 2021, to May, 2022

Environment: vBlock, VxRail Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, VMWare SDDC/HCI, VMware vSphere 7.x, 6,x, 5.x, 4.x and Virtual Infrastructure 3.5, Cisco UCS, Zerto replication, Avamar backup

Primary Responsibilities:

Collaborate with IT Architecture teams to ensure alignment of underlying Virtualization & Hardware infrastructure architecture processes, standards, strategies, and roadmaps.

Design Virtualization solution architectures using VMware to meet the functional and business requirements of organizations across verticals and sizes.

Determine systems provisioning, performance, and scalability characteristics of Virtualization technologies like VMware product suites on complex hardware platforms like VxRail, and Cisco UCS chassis server hardware.

Develop, test, and maintain standard operating procedures for deploying infrastructure in data centers.

Analyze and troubleshoot VMware server deployment, and virtualization issues, and provide the root-cause analysis (RCAs).

Maintaining virtualization infrastructure underlying hardware inventory warranty, licensing, and upgrade to comply with organization standards

Designed, implemented, and upgraded VMware vCenters, clusters with features like DRS, HA, vMotion, Storage vMotion with vStandard and vDistributed switches on vSAN, FC, iSCSI, and NAS datastores

Administering replication jobs on Zerto within local and remote sites.

Creating/monitoring alerts and notifications by configuring appropriate community strings.

Analyze usage trends and forecast Capacity of organic growth for accommodation future infrastructure requirement

Discuss with application owners and stakeholders regarding the purchase of hardware and software for future deployments.

Provide knowledge to Project managers as needed throughout the project life cycle.

Experienced in end-to-end infrastructure deployment, including planning, quoting, purchasing, deploying, and coordinating engineers.

Participate in Yearly budget planning and capacity forecast meeting and help with necessary reports that can influence future purchasing decisions.

Work on Proofs-of-Concept across multiple products available in the market and provide the clients with business cases for procuring the latest products required for future needs and create SOPs for future use across organizations.

Implemented new central monitoring system to consolidate monitoring from different systems.

Leverage industry publications and knowledge bases to provide thought leadership and best practices for data center design, management, capacity planning, and future infrastructure solutions and products

Built and migrated SQL clusters to accommodate Growing SQL requirements.

Conduct research on software and hardware systems to identify potential technologies and approaches for addressing current and future purchasing needs within the enterprise.

Dell / NTTData Services – Plano Technology Center February 2016, to September, 2021

Position/Title: System Integration Specialist Advisor

Environment: VMware VCF, VxRail, VMWare SDDC/HCI, VMware HCX, VMware vSphere 7.x, 6,x, 5.x, 4.x and Virtual Infrastructure 3.5, VMware vRealize Operations, NSX, Turbonomics optimization, VxRail Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, Citrix, Dell M1000e, Cisco UCS, HP Blade C7000 and C3000 enclosures with Virtual Connect flex-10 Modules using Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM), Lenovo Blade Center, Cisco Nexus, NetApp, IBM SAN storage, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR), Veeam backup and replication, Actifio backup, Microsoft Windows 2016/2012/2008/2003 Servers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. SolarWinds IPAM.

Primary Responsibilities:

Primary Responsibilities:

Collaborate with IT Architecture teams to ensure alignment of underlying Virtualization & Hardware infrastructure architecture processes, standards, strategies, and roadmaps.

Design Virtualization solution architectures using VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V, and Citrix to meet the functional and business requirements of organizations across verticals and sizes.

Determine systems provisioning, performance, and scalability characteristics of Virtualization technologies like VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and Citrix product suites on complex hardware platforms like VxRail, Cisco UCS chassis, Dell E1000 enclosures, HP C7000, and other standalone server hardware.

Streamlined Hardware Procurement Processes: Effectively collaborated with vendors to source and procure enterprise-grade hardware, ensuring compatibility with organizational IT infrastructure and meeting project deadlines.

Vendor Relationship Management: Established and maintained strong partnerships with hardware vendors, negotiating cost-effective contracts while ensuring adherence to quality and performance standards.

Budget Optimization and Compliance: Oversaw hardware acquisition, aligning procurement strategies with budget constraints and regulatory compliance requirements to optimize resource allocation.

Develop, test, and maintain standard operating procedures for deploying infrastructure in data centers.

Analyze and troubleshoot VMware server deployment, and virtualization issues, and provide the root-cause analysis (RCAs).

Maintaining virtualization infrastructure underlying hardware inventory warranty, licensing, and upgrade to comply with organization standards

Ensured safe migration of Hyper-V workload to VMware for improvising infrastructure.

VMware upgrade

Designed, implemented, and upgraded VMware vCenters, clusters with features like DRS, HA, vMotion, Storage vMotion with vStandard and vDistributed switches on vSAN, FC, iSCSI, and NAS datastores

Performed the Migration of traditional Windows vCenter to VMware vCenter server appliance.

Build VMware update manager, and created baselines for upgrading ESXi hosts versions to comply with current organizational standards.

Implemented F5 load balancers and migrated workloads from legacy load balencers.

Administration of Cisco UCS chassis by creating WWNN, WWPN, MAC pools, and VLANs for server profiles and associating to blade servers as needed.

Creating LUNs on Netapp storage, Zoning, and masking of ESXi hosts as required for deploying Virtual machines and configuring backup policies.

Administering backup and replication jobs on Actifio within local and remote sites.

Tested and deployed Hyper-Converged data center infrastructure Nutanix platform for a software-defined storage solution.

IP Address Management using IPAM.

Upgraded Terabytes of windows file servers and Migrated to and from Netapp controllers.

Creating/monitoring alerts and notifications by configuring appropriate community strings.

Analyze usage trends and forecast Capacity of organic growth for accommodation future infrastructure requirement

Discuss with application owners and stakeholders regarding the purchase of hardware and software for future deployments.

Provide knowledge to Project managers as needed throughout the project life cycle.

Experience with project planning and execution managed a few infrastructure deployment projects end to end, including quoting, planning, purchasing hardware, software, warranty, deploying, and engaging required engineers.

Participate in Yearly budget planning and capacity forecast meeting and help with necessary reports that can influence future purchasing decisions.

Work on Proofs-of-Concept across multiple products available in the market and provide the clients with business cases for procuring the latest products required for future needs and create SOPs for future use across organizations.

Leverage industry publications and knowledge bases to provide thought leadership and best practices for data center design, management, capacity planning, and future infrastructure solutions and products

Conduct research on software and hardware systems to identify potential technologies and approaches for addressing current and future purchasing needs within the enterprise.

Wipro Technologies September, 2014 – February, 2016

Position/Title: Technical Lead

Environment: VMware vSphere 6,x, 5.x, 4.x and Virtual Infrastructure 3.5, VMware vCenter Operations Manager, Cisco UCS, HP Blade C7000 and C3000 enclosures with Virtual Connect flex-10 Modules using Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM), Cisco Nexus, Veeam backup and replication, Symantec Backup Exec, Microsoft Windows 2016/2012/2008/2003 Servers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IPAM, DNS and DHCP using Infoblox and AD. File and print server management.

Primary Responsibilities:

Implemented Cisco UCS and migrated all test environment virtual machines and planned for migrating production virtual machines from Legacy hardware.

Upgraded VMware VDI environment to 5.3 from 4.6 with minimum downtime.

Upgraded eight vCenters with 500 ESX/ESXi hosts from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.x, in 3 months without impacting business.

Design, implementation, and troubleshooting VMware ESXi 5.x Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.

Implemented VMware vSphere Health Check Report for monitoring and keeping a healthy environment.

Deployed vCOPs (VMware vCenter Operations Manager) for Capacity Management, Environment Optimization, and creating custom reports for Performance Management.

Generating current utilization, analyzing growth rate, and forecasting Computing and storage requirements for coming quarters and projects.

P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.

Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP C7000 and HP Proliant Servers with Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM).

Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008, and 2012 Servers on Virtual Machines.

Experience with vSphere Host Profiles/Distributed Switches setup

LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multi Patching

Administration of Cisco UCS 5108 with Fabric Interconnect 6248, HP Blade series C7000 chassis, and HP Proliant servers.

Worked with load balancers to support 1000s of users VDI solutions.

Performed system administration activities, and security policies, and monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels

Configuration and management of Virtual Machines and hosted VSphere 5.x ESXi hosts. Implemented vSphere 5.5 as Proof of concept.

Configured and management of HA\DRS clusters based on business needs.

Managing and upgrading VMware View 4.6 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure View (VDI).

Create templates for users’ application servers for faster VM deployments.

Installed ESXi 5.5, newly released patches, and fixes by leveraging the update manager.

Administration and troubleshooting of files, print servers, DNS, DHCP, and IPAM.

Perform day-to-day operation and troubleshooting of VMs.

Keep Virtual hardware and VMware tools updated to keep a healthy environment.

Work with the storage team to create LUNs and Map ESXi hosts.

Map NICs to the port groups for appropriate VLANs.

Create uniform host profiles for clusters as required.

Installation, Troubleshooting, and maintenance of Windows file and application servers.

Create change control for the downtime of windows files and print servers as required.

Configuring, upgrading, troubleshooting, and Managing Veeam Replication for required VMs.

Technical Support for other groups in the company

Novisync Solutions, Inc. March, 2011-September, 2014

Position/Title: Wintel VMware Engineer

Environments: VMware vSphere 5.1, 5.0, 4.0 and Virtual Infrastructure 3, Windows Servers 2012 / 2008 / 2003 Server, Hyper-V, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 5, Cisco UCS 5108, HP Blade C7000 and C3000 enclosures with Virtual Connect flex-10 Modules using Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM), Dell PowerEdge Servers, Citrix, Symantec Netbackup, Cisco Nexus 7K, EMC SAN storage, HP EVA 8400 and SQL Database

Primary Responsibilities:

Design, implementation, and troubleshooting VMware ESX 4.0/3.5 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.

P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter

Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP C7000 and Cisco UCS 5100 Chassis.

Hands-on experience in updating/upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers, and Windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades

Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000 server, Professional, Windows 2003, and 2008 Servers on Virtual Machines.

Experience with vSphere Host Profiles/Distributed Switches setup

LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multi-Pathing

VMware SRM testing on NAS storage with storage replication

Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 4.0 host servers with vSphere Client, and vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.

Administration of HP Blade series C3000, C7000.

Performed system administration activities, and security policies, and monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels

Management of Active directory and windows server infrastructure.

Provided technical support for the users and resolved software/hardware issues.

Performed hands-on administration and monitoring of the Local Area Network (LAN).

Experience with solar wind monitoring tools for servers and network devices.

Managed the installation and configuration of Windows 2003 Servers/Workstations.

Created user and computer accounts on the Active directory users and computers.

Configured servers for DHCP, WINS, and DNS services.

Installation, configuration, and Administration of IIS web servers.

Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs.

Installation and configuration of Domain Controllers and implementation of trusts.

Troubleshoot and resolve computer problems; built and upgrade systems; install software and perform general troubleshooting.

Handled multiple tasks to meet project deadlines.

Develop and update the required network/system administration documentation

Strong interpersonal communication and technical skills in software, hardware, and networking which helped to identify and resolve issues quickly.

Installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment, and software within established standards and guidelines.

Technical Support for other groups in the company.

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