Ashok Kumar Madireddy

The IT Infrastructure Data Center Manager's role is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing,A primary focus for this management position will be to provide leadership for day to day operations of a datacenter and IT infrastructure

Datacenter operations

• Design, build, and optimize data center environments for improved operational efficiency and reduced downtime.
• Proficient in managing hardware, network devices, and software platforms within large-scale data centers.
• Experienced in managing cross-functional teams, driving performance improvements, and fostering professional growth.
• Skilled in forecasting resource needs, balancing workloads, and planning for future capacity expansions.
• Expertise in implementing security protocols, disaster recovery plans, and ensuring compliance with relevant standards.
• Manage relationships with vendors and third-party service providers to ensure the highest quality service and cost-effective solutions.
• Strong diagnostic skills to identify, resolve, and prevent issues affecting data center performance.
• Implementing high-availability systems and disaster recovery plans to minimize downtime and service disruptions.
• Leading large-scale data center projects from concept through implementation, ensuring timely and cost-effective delivery.

Technical Proficiencies:

• Hardware: Servers, Storage Systems, UPS, Power Distribution Units (PDUs)
• Software: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V
• Networking: Cisco Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Load Balancers
• Cloud Technologies: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
• Automation & Scripting: PowerShell, Python

Virtual Environment:

• IT infrastructure Designer for global client.
• Meet the client understand requirements demands the technologies required and applicable.
• Senior Automation Virtualization Engineer for VMware vSphere products such as VCF(vCloud Foundation), (VRA )vRealize Automations,(VRO) Orchestrator.
• Providing End to End support on vRA, vRO operations and project management.
• Experience in Conduct design workshops with VMware to get the design requirements for vRA migration from 7.6 to 8.x § Good experience in designing automation Now
• Goal is to provide VM's as per customer requirement on desired endpoints with desired flavor and filesystem layout.
• Configured and manage all aspects of ERAUER/, including creating Blueprints and Workflows, endpoints, Reservations, Templates, proxy agent, LCM, permission, group management, etc. Utilized tools such as ER/, RFST APIs, and Log Insight to Monitor and manage several Environments.
• Expertise in Designing Blueprints using Design Canvas, Event Broker, Event Subscription, infrastructure end points, Reservations, Reservation policies, Approval policies
• Experience in configuration Infrastructure Resources to vRA

Good experience in creating Entitlements, approval polices, Subscriptions

• Good knowledge on integrating salt to vRA7vR/

Hood experience in creating Service-now Template and approval workflow.

• Troubleshoot and resolve operational incidents, issues and interfaced with technology teams and Vendor to coordinate a solution.
• Good knowledge of data center architecture, Cloud Migration, cloud management, deployments, and Cloud Managed operations

• Analyzing Client requirement Architecture and designing as per client requirements physical and virtual environment.
• Documenting Architecture and implementing Provide support to RUN team until implemented environment in production Design and applying Solutions required Planning and upgrading Virtual Environments from 5.x to 6.5.
• Planning and designing Disaster recovery With 2018-03 - 2019-04 SRM(VMware Site Recovery manager) Upgrading hardware of Windows servers.
• Consulting Vendors VMware, Microsoft for best practice methods. Scaling Virtual environment.
• Managing ESX servers (5.x,6.x) with Vcenters 6.0 and 6.5. Managing VM (Virtual Machines) related issue. ESX Patching through Vcenters.
• Hardware related issues. Firmware upgrading for Hardware. Handing Cluster relates issue.
• Handling transactions of Servers from onshore to offshore. Performance related issues.
• Planning and executing Disaster recovery with SRM (Site recovery Manager)

• Supporting day to day activities.
• Providing RCA.
• Managing ESXi 5.X and 6.X with Vcenter appliances 5.X and 6.X Managing VM (Virtual Machines) related issue.
• ESX Patching through Vcenters.
• Hardware related issues.
• Firmware upgrading for Hardware.
• Handing Cluster relates issue.
• Handling transactions of Servers from onshore to offshore. Performance related issues.
• Migrating VMware to Hyper-V environments.
• Supporting on Azure hosted Virtual machines.
• Providing remote task to relocating datacenters

• Supporting day to day activities.
• Providing RCA. Managing ESX servers (4.0,4.1,4i and 5i) with Vcenters 4.0 and 5.0. Managing VM (Virtual Machines) related issue. ESX Patching through Vcenters.
• Hardware related issues.
• Firmware upgrading for Hardware.
• Handing Cluster relates issue.
• Handling transactions of Servers from onshore to offshore Performance related issues

• Installation of VMware ESX server 3.5, 3i, 4.0 and 4i Configuring with Virtual center.
• Arrange with High Availability, VMotion and DRS (Distrusted Resources Scheduler) Connecting ESX server with SAN, iSCSI, NAS.
• Creating Virtual Machines.
• Creating Templates, Snapshots of VM. Cloning, Migration of Virtual Machines.
• Connecting Virtual Machines with Physical Network. NIC Teaming to network load balance. Implementation of Clustering.
• Converting Physical machines into virtual machines. Log in call with Vendors (Dell, Microsoft, and VMware).
• Firmware Up gradation of host & Bios Of the servers.

• Installation of VMware ESX server 3i Configuring with Virtual center. Arrange with High Availability & VMotion.
• Connecting ESX server with SAN, iSCSI, NAS.
• Creating Virtual Machines. Creating Templates, Snapshots of VM,Cloning, Migration of Virtual Machines.
• Connecting Virtual Machines with Physical Network. NIC Teaming to network load balance.
• Implementation of Clustering.
• Monitoring the Virtual Machines & ESX servers through Tivoli Monitoring agent

• Installation of VMware ESX server 3.5 Configuring with Virtual center.
• Arrange with High Availability & VMotion.
• Connecting ESX server with SAN, iSCSI, NAS.
• Creating Virtual Machines.
• Creating Templates, Snapshots of VM. Configuring servers with RAID LEVELS in physical server.
• Cloning, Migration of Virtual Machines.
• Connecting Virtual Machines with Physical Network.
• NIC Teaming to network load balance. Implementation of Clustering.