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Mohmmed Viquar Ahmed

Bangalore

Summary

Seasoned IT professional with over 14 years of experience in management, design, deployment, and support of Converged and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure environments. Proven expertise in designing and troubleshooting complex systems including vBlock, VCF, VSAN, VVF, and VxRail, ensuring optimal performance and seamless operations. Extensive hands-on experience with VCF, VSAN, VVF, and ARIA Suite in Telco Cloud deployments, successfully addressing deployment challenges and optimizing configurations to meet organizational needs.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Consultant

VMware by Broadcom
10.2021 - Current
  • Working for VMware Professional Services and delivering and designing solutions for large enterprise customers in various sectors for their SDDC implementations.
  • Subject Matter Expert on VCF(Standard,Consolidate,Stretched),vSAN,Aria Suite ,VVF,HCX.
  • Experience in design /deploy and drive the solutions as per customer’s business requirement within stipulated time.
  • Experience with native VMware products and solutions developed around or consuming VMware technologies.
  • Experience in working along with Engineering, Project Management & Global Support.
  • Experience in developing the product literature against the solutions delivered or deployed at the customer end.
  • Has been served in R&D at VMware for product(s) and feature enhancements.
  • Develop customer documentation and related literature around the delivery provided.
  • Develop and run cross-functional collaboration initiatives.
  • Cloud assessment that included- Application discovery, current infrastructure assessment.
  • Design and Implemented Enterprise class Private/Hybrid cloud solutions for various - Mid to large scale organizations across industry verticals in multiple geos. These solutions involve designing and deploying IaaS, SaaS with vSphere virtualization environment i.e., VCF, VVF, vSAN,Aria Suite, VMC on AWS, , HCX, DR etc.
  • Providing KT and product specific technical sessions for the customers.
  • Successfully delivered VCF Project for European Commission.
  • Successfully delivered TCA, VMC on AWS and Managing Project for Dish.
  • Successfully delivered VRSLCM, VIDM project for Centre Railway information systems.
  • Successfully Delivered the vSphere, VSAN HC Project for Draxelmaier.
  • Successfully Delivered the vSphere, VSAN Project for Waste Management.
  • Successfully Delivered the VCF Project for University of Cambridge.
  • Successfully Delivered the VCF Project for RailTel.
  • Successfully Delivery the vSphere Health Check Project for European Central Bank.
  • Successfully Delivered the VCF Upgrade Project for Bank of Alexandria.
  • Successfully Delivery the VSAN,vROPS,VCF Residency Project for Fedex(AMER).
  • Successfully Delivered the vSphere Project for Dish.
  • Successfully Upgraded VCF 3.x to 3.11.0.1 Project for CEDACRI.
  • Successfully Deploy/Day 2 VROPS, VIDM,VRLI for EMEA Fedex.
  • Successfully Delivered the VCF+/vSphere+,VSAN+ Converstion to VCF.
  • Successfully Deployment of VCF 5.2.1 2 for two sites with VI WLD Domain for NorthWell.
  • Successfully Upgraded VCF 4.5.2 to 5.2.1.1 for NorthTrust.

Principle Engineer

DELL EMC
09.2016 - 09.2021
  • Part of VxRail Engineers L2 Team called as GSE (Global Support Engineer for EMEA).
  • Troubleshooting Hyper Converged Infrastructure Solutions (VxRail, VxRack SDDC,VCFonVxRail).
  • Troubleshooting Installation/Deployment issues of VxRail Appliance, VCFonVxRail.
  • Deploying VRSLCM and Importing VIDM, VRLI,VROPS , VRA.
  • Troubleshooting VCFonVxRail Skiplevel Upgrade issues.
  • Troubleshooting VxRail Upgrade issues.
  • Troubleshooting VSAN and VxRail issue With VCF and without VCF.
  • Performing Prechecks and Health check for VCF and VxRail using the internal tools.
  • Fixing the VxRail issue and VCFonVxRail issues.
  • Troubleshooting Dell PowerEdge Hardware issue.
  • Handling Critical Accounts for VCFonVxRail and VxRail issues.
  • Handling Critical issue Data loss / data unavailable, complex environment and customer issues.
  • Performing Firmware upgrade on Dell PowerEdge Series.
  • Working closely with Engineering Team for the VxRail and VSAN bugs.
  • Driving the VxRail KPI ( Knowldege based Article) for the Bangalore Team.
  • Mentoring the L2 Team on the Technical issues and taking technical hurdles.
  • Preparing and Planning Trainings for the GSE Team and skilling them up with respect to the VCF/VxRail/VMware.
  • Delivering Bootcamp session for VCFonVxRail to the GSE Team.
  • Preparing and Handling of VxRail Bangalore LAB.

IT Analyst

TCS
11.2015 - 09.2016
  • Manage Corp. Infra and Retail Infra.
  • Manage and Troubleshooting VBlock.
  • Manage 8 VC with 1500 ESXI host and 5000 VM and Virtual Desktops.
  • Patch and upgrade management using VMware Update Manager.
  • Performing Health Check of all VC using vcheck.
  • Troubleshoot L3 level issues and support L2 team to improve their skillset.
  • Performing Root Cause Analysis for critical and production down situations.

VMware Engineer

WIPRO Technologies
11.2013 - 09.2015
  • Manage 100+ ESX servers and 3000 Virtual Servers and Virtual Desktops.
  • Install, Configure and manage VMware vSphere 4.x & 5.x Environments.
  • Troubleshoot High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS).
  • Configured Resource Pool, VMotion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP.
  • Troubleshoot issues using ESXTOP and other tools when required.
  • Troubleshoot issues with VM performance and ESX failures.
  • Implement Best practices as per VMware Standards.
  • Configure Manage and Troubleshoot VDI view 4.x environments.
  • Coordinate with VMware Technical support team for RCA of S0/S1 issues.
  • Trained with HP for HP Blade Admin.
  • Manage HP Blades using OA.
  • Manage UCS Blades.
  • Manage Dell PowerEdge Servers.
  • Create and manage backup policies using Symantec NetBackup.
  • Troubleshooting NetBackup failed backups.
  • Create and manage backup policies and monitoring with Avamar sending logs.
  • Troubleshooting Avamar failed backups.

IT Admin Engineer

Auromine Solutions
08.2011 - 10.2013
  • Provide all kind of IT support and escalations.
  • Troubleshoot Windows OS Related Application using Group Policy editor, Registry Editor if required.
  • Audit preparation internal and client (External) and used to audit location every 3 months just before the real audit to avoid findings.
  • Coordinate with vendors for HW failures and follow-up till closure.
  • Managing and monitoring VMware virtual infrastructure.
  • Daily L1 activity of monitoring and attending incidents.
  • Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates.
  • Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS).
  • Migrating of VMs using vMotion, Managing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.

Education

MCA - Computer And Information Sciences

Computer Application
Measi Institute Of Information Technology
03-2011

B.sc - Computer Science

Computer Science
Islamiah Boy College
03-2008

Skills

  • VMware Cloud Foundation 2x ,3x, 4x and 5x
  • vSphere 7x and 8x
  • Aria Suite and VROPS
  • NSX and Telco Cloud
  • Dell, HP, and Cisco servers
  • TCA and TCP
  • vRealize Automation (VRA)
  • vRealize Log Insight (VRLI)
  • VMware vSAN
  • VMware HCX

Certification

  • VCIX 2020
  • VCF Administrator 2024
  • VCF Architect 2025
  • VCF 2021 Specialist
  • VSAN 2017 Specialist
  • Cloud Management and Automation 2021
  • VMC on AWS Specialist
  • VxRail Expert
  • VCP6-NV
  • VCE-CIE
  • Double VCP – Data Center
  • vExpert

Awards Recognition

  • VMware Achieve Our Best Award 1
  • VMware Achieve Our Best Award 2
  • Game Changes 3 in Dell EMC, for Continues effort for VCF.

Personal Information

  • Title: Senior Consultant
  • Visa Status: (Visa Country - Validity)

Industries Served

  • Financial
  • HealthCare
  • Public
  • IT
  • Retail
  • Education

Core Skill Set

  • VMware Cloud Foundation
  • VCF on VxRail
  • ARIA Suite (VROPS, VRLI, VRA, VIDM)
  • VSAN 6.x/7.x/8.x
  • VVF 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x
  • Telco Cloud
  • NSX
  • Dell-HP-Cisco Servers

Timeline

Senior Consultant

VMware by Broadcom
10.2021 - Current

Principle Engineer

DELL EMC
09.2016 - 09.2021

IT Analyst

TCS
11.2015 - 09.2016

VMware Engineer

WIPRO Technologies
11.2013 - 09.2015

IT Admin Engineer

Auromine Solutions
08.2011 - 10.2013

MCA - Computer And Information Sciences

Computer Application

B.sc - Computer Science

Computer Science

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