DEEPAK VEDACHALAM

VMware support engineer providing essential support for BAU (Business as Usual) environments.

• Responsible for day-today support of the Vmware vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation Environment.
• Managing tasks related to commissioning and decommissioning of brownfield environments.
• Responsible for tasks such as VMware Upgrades
• Performed Operation readiness of VMware Environments
• Performed maintenance tasks for the VMware Cloud Foundation Environment.
• Responsible for VCF User and password Management
• Managed Certificates in vMware Environment
• Vendor coordination and Management
• Responsible for SRM Disaster Recovery Drills
• Rapid provisioning of Virtual Machines using Templates.
• Configured NSX-t segments on VMware cloud foundation
• Configured vSAN deduplication and compression
• Replacing a Failed drive on a vSAN Cluster
• Virtual Machine workloads assessment for Storage vMotion Migration & vMotion Migration.
• Configured AVNs in Cloud Foundation for Aria Suite/vRealize Suite

• Senior vMware Engineer with leadership Skills for Current & Next Gen Technology
• Responsible for implementing and managing VMware Cloud Foundation
• Responsible for VCF, SDDC Manager Operations and Workload Domain Operations
• Responsible for ESXi Host Operations, vSphere Cluster Operations and NSX Operations
• Experience in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment Full stack Upgrade (VCF, vCenter, NSX-t, vSAN)
• Performed Upgrade of VMware vRealize Suite
• Upgraded ESXI hosts using vLCM images
• Configured vSAN Storage Policy (storage policy-based Management
• Good Understanding of vSAN stretch Cluster & NSX-t Federation

• Company Overview: Partner - Charles Schwab Bank
• Responsible for vMware Health checks, Alert handling, Warnings checks and Monitoring.Experience in vSphere Components Installation & Deployment Workflow
• Responsible for 6000+ ESXi hosts & Managed 55000 Virtual Machines in the vsphere Infrastructure
• Performed vCenter Reduced downtime Upgrade to update vCenter
• Performed nenic (Ethernet driver) and fnic (HBA Driver) Drivers on Blades
• Dell EMC vXrail Design and Bring UP
• VMware vSphere ESXI host build datacenter
• Experienced with Nsx-t Data center Logical Switching Troubleshooting
• Experienced with NSX Logical Routing
• Configured vSAN Service Configurations
• Configured vSAN Storage Policy (storage policy-based Management)
• Setting Up vSAN cache/ Capacity Tier Disk Groups
• Configured vSAN deduplication and compression
• Good Understanding of RAID in vSAN - Erasure Coding and RAID coding methods
• Configured vSAN Storage Policy (storage policy-based Management)
• Configured Fault Domain in vSAN
• Virtual Machine workloads assessment for Storage vMotion Migration & vMotion
• Performed Dell EMC VXrail 7.0 infrastructure upgrade
• Windows Physical server and Virtual server Drive Expand
• Replacing a Failed drive on a vSAN Cluster
• Partner - Charles Schwab Bank

• Company Overview: Office Depot
• Rapid provisioning of Virtual Machines using Templates
• Dynamically Modified Compute settings (CPU and Memory) on the Fly
• Configured vsphere High Availability and DRS Clusters
• Dynamically increased the capacity of a VMFS datastore
• Performed Decommission of Virtual Machine
• Good Understanding of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Management
• Application Packaging and Deploying using SCCM - VMtools, Hardware Version
• Application Packaging and Deploying using SCCM - Firmware and driver
• Application Packaging and Deploying using SCCM - DELL OMIVV, DELL OSMA (open manage system administrator)
• Contributed in Windows Server Build 2012 - Virtual Infrastructure Servers
• Dynamically increased the capacity of a VMFS datastore
• Configured Hyperthreading on ESXi Hosts
• Configured NTP service for time sync on ESXi Hosts
• Office Depot

• Comprehensive knowledge of Server Class Hardware and software fundamentals
• Evict / Add Nodes to Windows Cluster Failover Server
• Configure IPs on Windows Cluster Failover Server Nodes
• Windows performance Management using PAL analysis tool
• Windows servers Administration
• Co-ordination in Hardware activities - Power Down/UP activities
• Managed Dell Server Hardware issues
• Experienced on DELL systems monitoring
• Maintain and update Known Error Database (KEDB)
• Proactive notification to Business partners and Stakeholders on delays/ slowness
• Responsible for Day-to-day operations involving monitoring Queues
• Managed security of servers with Symantec Antivirus Installs and upgrade
• Suppressing of alert and snooze of Server during maintenance activities (Through SolarWinds)
• Follow up with users (communicator, email, phone) if any confirmation is needed from them to work on the issue