Akanksha Jain

• Collaborated with VMware to set up VRA 8.x environments, migrating and refactoring workflows.
• Upgraded Lifecycle Manager, Identity Manager, and Aria Automation to enhance system performance and security.
• Implemented Aria Automation and Identity Manager as a single-node cluster and scaled to three nodes for high availability.
• Configured Aria 8 infrastructure by creating projects, cloud zones, and flavor mappings.
• Designed and maintained client’s private cloud on VMware infrastructure using Aria tools.
• Managed legacy VRA 7.6 environment to maintain system stability and provide ongoing support.
• Developed a generic cloud template for provisioning various offerings with a single custom form.
• Conducted risk assessments to identify and mitigate potential issues before code production release.
• Troubleshooted various failed request in Aria due to missing tags, missing network in network profile, or issues with compute resources.
• Developed workflows to trigger the post provision task for virtual server.

VREALIZE STACK DEPLOYMENT & CONFIGURATION:

• Executed deployment and configuration of vRealize stack, supporting operational readiness of new private cloud environment.
• Implemented and configured tools including Lifecycle Manager, vRealize Automation, Orchestrator, and Operations Manager.
• Designed infrastructure-level monitoring solutions for customer environments.
• Generated tags via vRealize Orchestrator to optimize resource selection during provisioning processes.

VROPS CONFIGURATION:

• Created dashboards for leadership, delivering performance insights on critical applications.
• Expanded vRealize Operations cluster by deploying additional collector nodes to enhance data collection efficiency.
• Perform Upgrade of vROps Cluster from version 6.7 to 7.5
• Develop use cases like Scale Up-Down, Scale In-Out, Auto Remediation for Operating System and agent services.

VRA PLATFORM MONITORING:

• Designed and implemented VRA platform monitoring solution to enhance automation efficiency.
• Configured monitoring through VRA SDDC and SQL management packs for optimal performance.
• Developed dashboards for operations team, streamlining troubleshooting processes for VRA stack issues.
• Integrated auto-remediation for select VRA services with VRO to streamline incident resolution.