Ravichandra Ketha
Cloud Migration SME
Chennai,TN
Summary
Experienced Cloud Migration SME with over 11 years of experience in IT. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction.
Overview
2
2
Certifications
4
4
years of post-secondary education
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Cloud Migration and Delivery Analyst
IBM India Private Limited
Chennai
01.2012 - Current
- Worked closely with customers, internal staff and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects.
- Expertise in Discovery, planning and migration strategy and approach to different types of workloads (systems, Application, Database &etc...) to Private / Public Cloud or Traditional Datacenters.
- Expertise in Migration tools such as Double Take, Platespin, Vmotion & Vmware Convertor. Responsible to create Migration work instruction & Run Book creation.
- Responsible to create Migration Move Group sequence pattern & wave plans with less impact to business continuity. Identify Landing Zones for each workloads migration.
- Expertise in Data Center Transformation, infrastructure design and architecture covering Compute/Servers, Virtualization and Storage architectures. Actively worked on Lift and Shift H/W migrations, Virtual Migrations and Storage Migrations.
- Discover Client Environment using different tools such as Cloud scape and CMD B.
- Data Assimilation, Validation and Enhancement of data based on Discovered data.
- Incorporate data from multiple discovery source to create Master Device list.
- Continuous meeting with different Business owners to validate the Discovery report is accurate.
- Determine Inscope & Outscope migration list based on collected data.
- Identify if workload can be virtualized during migration or find out alternate solutions.
- Responsible to decide migration method & migration tools such as Carbonite Migrate, Zerto, Platespin, Vmotion & Vmware Convertor.
- Develop Migration Move Group sequence pattern with less impact to business continuity
- Create multiple wave plans ( daily/ weekly / monthly ) to enable minimal impact on business and also gives time for clients to validate workloads after migration
- Allocate resource for each wave plan as it involves different type of workloads and clearly define the work instruction
- Determine backup setup after the migration to cloud.
- Responsible to create migration work instruction & run book creation.
- Determine landing Zone for each workloads such as AWS, Azure, DXC VPC or Traditional Datacenter.
- Having experience on Migration work loads from Onprem to Azure by using Azure site recovery.
- Having experience on Migration work loads from KVM hypervisor to Xen Hypervisor by using Double take move.
- Collaborate with other team members and business representatives to ensure that security settings meet the requirements of the business and align with the defined controls and standards.
- Validating source environment before migration and prepare wave plans.
- Prepare target environment before Migration based on customer requirement.
- Stop application before Migration in source and activate on target once Migration completed.
- Create job for Migration in the tool and monitor the replication status.
- Trouble shooting and Resolving the issues while replicating data.
- Validating replicated data into the target.
- Perform final sync and do cut-over in change scheduled window.
- Troubleshooting and resolving issue after cut-over in target environment.
- Handover servers to the application team once Migration completed.
- Good knowledge on AWS & Azure cloud and having experience on Migration servers from onprem to different public clouds.
- On-premises Active Directory, deploy Active Directory, define static IP reservations, understand ACLs, Network Security Groups and Design Azure Compute.
- Implementation and configuration of ASR for DR and Migration.
- Azure load balancing options, including Traffic Manager, Azure Media Services, CDN, Azure Active Directory, Azure Cache, Multi-Factor Authentication and Service Bus.
- Implement proof of concepts to validate cloud concepts, architecture and requirements.
Linux Administrator
Wifi Networks Private Limited
Banglore, Karnataka
05.2008 - 07.2011
- Installed system-wide hardware components, confirming interoperation and compatibility with Linux-based software distros.
- Tuned system performance to optimize efficacy of new and existing hardware components.
- Maintained smooth operation of multi-user computer systems through collaboration with hardware and network engineers.
- Interacted directly with users to diagnose and correct major system issues and address concerns.
- Coordinated cross-site installation of networked systems, confirming post-install connectivity.
- Created and serviced administrator and user accounts on Linux-based systems.
- Managed backup and disaster recovery through strict data control and retention policies, personally handling recovery tasks when issues arose.
- Configured and maintained web servers.
- Resolved Incidents and service requests tickets to reduce backlog.
- Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.
- Diagnosed and executed resolution for server related issues.
- Implementation of patches, hot fixes and upgrades versions in the servers at Maintenance period and pre-production stage.
- Disk management of Linux, Solaris and AIX servers using quota management, LVM/rootvg and implementation of monitoring systems with automated scripts.
- Hands on experience on logical volume and Swap creation in Linux environment.
Education
B.Tech -
Bharath University
Chennai 06.2003 - 07.2007
Skills
Cloud Migration
Certification
Aws certified solution archetect
Timeline
Cloud Migration and Delivery Analyst
IBM India Private Limited
01.2012 - Current
Linux Administrator
Wifi Networks Private Limited
05.2008 - 07.2011
B.Tech -
Bharath University
06.2003 - 07.2007
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