PAVAN KUMAR VISWANADHA

Company Overview: Client: Philip Morris International, Hyderabad

• Experienced in architecting, deploying, and configuring VMware infrastructure, including ESXi hosts and vCenter Server.
• Proficient in setting up and managing high availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) within vCenter clusters to ensure optimal performance and uptime.
• Manage VMware environments with 20K+ virtual machines across multiple data centers.
• Successfully managed the relocation of two major datacenters from Renin and Bourn villas to Geneva. Oversaw end-to-end migration activities ensuring seamless transition and business continuity.
• Design, deploy, and maintain VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) environments to automate the provisioning of virtual machines, network services, and applications across multi-cloud environments.
• Led the successful deployment of VMware Aria Suite (Automation, Orchestrator, Operations, Log Insight, and Network Insight) in a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment using Lifecycle Manager (LCM), ensuring seamless integration and automation of the cloud infrastructure.
• Deploy NSX for secure network virtualization and implement Aria Suite for multi-cloud automation.
• Build automated workflows using vRO, PowerCLI, and REST APIs.
• Lead VxRail upgrades, validating and verifying components using VxRail Manager.
• Create custom dashboards and reports in vROps/Aria Operations for performance monitoring and real-time alerting.
• Perform installation, configuration, and upgrades of ESXi hosts and vCenter Server to the latest versions, ensuring smooth operations and compliance with best practices.
• Proficient in leveraging VMware Aria Log Insight for real-time log monitoring, analysis, and correlation to enhance system visibility and accelerate root cause identification.

Company Overview: Client: Johnson & Johnson, Hyderabad

• Created VM images/AMIs for multi-cloud platforms using Jenkins.
• Automated POD provisioning via GitHub and managed CI/CD pipelines.
• Performed quarterly image releases across environments and validated provisioning workflows.

Company Overview: Client: Tourism Union International, Hyderabad

• Upgraded vRA from 7.4 to 7.6 using vRLCM.
• Managed full vRealize stack: tenants, business groups, endpoints, and policies.
• Developed dashboards for chargeback analysis in vROps.

• Monitored vRealize Suite performance.
• Troubleshot vRO workflows and maintained vRA health and reservation settings.

• Install, Configure, and manage VMware vRealize Suite.
• Created business groups, endpoints, and policy configurations.
• Monitored and maintained performance dashboards and integrated logs across Aria tools.
• Experience with working on vRealize Life Cycle Manager tool which automates the tool deployments & configurations.

• Provided first-level infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Used QRadar, SolarWinds, and Foglight for monitoring and alerting.
• Documented operational procedures and participated in incident communications.