IT infrastructure leader with 13+ years of hands-on expertise in designing, deploying, and operating converged and hyper-converged solutions. Proven track record managing Dell PowerFlex (formerly ScaleIO), VxRack, VMware vSphere, and enterprise-scale datacentres. Adept at lifecycle management, capacity planning, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-availability systems and seamless upgrades across multi-vendor environments.
· Planning, execution and reporting on NextGen datacentre deployment of PowerFlex systems.
· Design and implementation of Virtualization, Compute, Storage on Converged, and Hyper-Converged Solutions.
· Day to Day operation related to PowerFlex storage.
· In Current role to support 16 Instance of vCenter across 4 datacentres.3500 + physical hosts (ESXi, Storage, HCI nodes) Managed through PxFM.
· Work with Dell Project managers for new deployment of PowerFlex, Expansion of existing instance from scratch.
· Agile Team member.
· Hands on experience on Designing, Deploying, Upgrading, and managing Powerflex.
· Hands on experience on converting the OS from RHEL/SUSE to CentOS.
· RCM upgradation through PxFM for all components which includes Network switches.
· Deployment & expansion of existing Powerflex systems through Powerflex Manager.
· Day to Day operation for all infrastructure changes related to hardware, network.
· Perform recovery of virtual machines through RP4VM.
· Upgrade of all components of Product suite like. ESXi, firmware, hardware.
· Provisioning and decommission of volumes through PxFM.
· Managing PowerFlex storage End to end.
· Work with application / OS owners in case of critical issue.
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