Vivekanand P
Software Engineer
Bengaluru
Summary
An accomplished 13+ year Vmware-vsphere,Aria Automation(VRA), NSX,VSAN,Vcloud,Cisco-UCS,Microsoft SCVMM, Hyper-V,Ansible,Terraform,AWX Virtualization and DevOps technologist focused in strategic thought leadership concentrated around next generation data center.
Involved in providing expert design and implementation in Vsphere end to end design and implementation, technical assessment, solution design, migration, and delivery of entire infrastructure and subsequent network, storage and virtualization components from Cisco, Microsoft & VMware, Involved in DevOps automation of VMware and cisco ucs infrastructure using Ansible,Terraform and Awx A highly motivated, business minded, organized, goal oriented, and energetic individual with excellent communication, presentation and management skills.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Wells Fargo
02.2021 - Current
Manager/Vmware,UCS Solution Architect
Vodafone
10.2018 - 02.2021
Senior Analyst Solution Engineer
Dell EMC
08.2016 - 10.2018
System and Implementation Engineer
Wipro Infotech
09.2011 - 08.2016
Education
Skills
Microsoft Technology
Virtualization Technology
active directory
Cisco UCS - Unified Computing System
remote desktop services / terminal services
citrix XenDesktop 70 onwards
windows server (from 2008 r2 to 2012 r2)
vmware esx 50-60
hyper-v server
vmware vsphere Infrastructure 50-60,65
virtual machine manager
vmware vcenter 50,51,55,60,65
Microsoft Azure
vmware view 50 onwards
VMware NSX 62,63
Vmware Vsan 62,66
Rhel 6,Rhel7, Rhel Satellite Server
Infrastructure Automation Technology
Ansible 27,28,29, AWX, AAP 20
Terraform
HCX 36 used for migration from Onprem to cloud
Cisco UCS blades and servers
Storage Technology
citrix Provisioning services
Cloud Computing
VMware ThinApp
VMware vCloud director
Cisco Director
Professional Highlights
- Over 30 successful deployments of Cisco UCS compute cluster with ESX 5(over 5 times) esx 5.5(over 5 times) and esx 6(20 tmes),Esxi 6.5(30times)
- 2 successful deployments of Simplivity boxes for vSphere 6 HA and DRS
- Have worked on VCE Vxblocks 350,540,740 series along with Vxrack 1000flex and implemented 100 such implementations.
- Over 50 successful deployments of VMware vSphere – vCenter and ESX (5.0-6.0,6.5)
- Over 3 successful deployments of VMware View
- Over 5 successful deployments of Microsoft Hyper-V and scvmm cluster.
- Involved in Migration of Instructure from on-prem to Cloud using HCX Tool.
- Worked on GitHub, Ansible Automation Platform, Ansible tower, was involved in migration of code from Ansible tower to AAP 2.0.
- DevOps automation of Vmware VRA and cisco ucs infrastructure using ANSIBLE, TERRAFORM and awx technologies.
Motto
Do the process to the best of your capabilities, the result will take care of itself.
Experienceprofile
An accomplished 12+ year Vmware-vsphere,Aria Automation(VRA), NSX,VSAN,Vcloud,Cisco-UCS,Microsoft SCVMM, Hyper-V,Ansible,Terraform,AWX Virtualization and DevOps technologist focused in strategic thought leadership concentrated around next generation data center. Involved in providing expert design and implementation in Vsphere end to end design and implementation, technical assessment, solution design, migration, and delivery of entire infrastructure and subsequent network, storage and virtualization components from Cisco, Microsoft & VMware, Involved in DevOps automation of VMware and cisco ucs infrastructure using Ansible,Terraform and Awx A highly motivated, business minded, organized, goal oriented, and energetic individual with excellent communication, presentation and management skills.
Technicalconcentration
VMware vSphere 5-6 infrastructure: vCenter, ESX Virtualization,Vmware NSX 6.3,Vmware VSAN, Worked on one POC of VCAC cloud,Cisco Unified Computing System, Citrix Xendesktop 6.5-7 infrastructure, Microsoft Hyper-v, SCVMM cluster, IAAC automation using Ansible ,Ansible Automation Platform, HCX(Hybrid cloud extension), Microsoft Azure, Terraform, AWX, Rhel 6,7, Rhel Satellite Server.
Vmwareimplementationengineer
Dell-EMC Technologies, Bangalore-560048, September-2011 to Present, Installation and Configuration of Vmware VCenter Hypervisor 5.0, 5.1, 5.5,6,6.5, Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of Virtual Center, VI Client, Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates., Installation and Configuration of Esxi Host and Configuration of DRS, Disaster Recovery, Fault Tolerance, SRM and other Functionalities., Configured Resource Pool, V Motion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP, Migrating of Virtual Machines using V Motion, Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations, Monitoring of Virtual Machine’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security, Installation and Configuration of Standard Vswitches, Distributed Vswithes., VMware NSX 6.3 installation and configuration, Creation of Virtual Switches, Ports and Port groups and setting up Layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks., Troubleshooting issues relating to v motion such as compatibility issues with help of event log, Setting up Users and Groups for access to the Virtual Center., Moving VM’s from one LUN to another LUN using Storage V-Motion, Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between Virtual Machines., Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting, Organize tasks, events and Configuring alarms, Troubleshooting of VM Related issues, Data store, Network related issues with Existing VM’S., Installation and configuration of Vmware view 5.1,5.2., Installation and configuration of View Connection Server,View agent, View Composer and integrating the SQL Database with the View Composer and deploying the Linked Clones of Virtual Desktops to the end users., Configuration of View Persona Management and Thin-app functionalities.
Vmwarensxandvsanimplementationengineer
Dell-EMC technologies, Bangalore-560048, September-2011 to Present, Worked on NSX 6.2,6.3 and have wide range experience of NSX Manager,NSX controller Implementation., DLR,ESG implementation based on BGP protocol., NSX Load balancer,NSX distributed firewall implementation and troubleshooting., Cross vcenter NSX implementation for both NSX 6.2 and 6.3., VMware VSAN 6.2 and 6.6 implementation for about 50 builds., Worked on about 100 builds for VCE Vxblock 300,500,700 series as well as Vxrack 1000flex builds
Ciscoucsimplementationengineer
Dell-EMC technologies, Bangalore-560048, September-2011 to Jan 2021, Configuration of 6248,6296 Fabric Interconnects,5108 Blade Chassis., Configuration of B series Blade servers, C series Rack servers, Cisco UCS mini etc., Configuration of Service profiles on the blade servers with Vnics, Vhba,Vlans in place., Configuration of QOS, Layer-2 Network for Lan Pinning of the uplink Ethernet., Configuration of BOOT from San of the VM OS, Flexflash configuration etc., Configuration of Cisco UCS director for a POC., Involved in several end-to-end implementation of entire UCS infrastructure many times.
Infrastructureasacodeautomation
Vodafone Shared Services, Wells Fargo International, Bangalore, September 2019-Present, Our Infrastructure consisting on Vmware and Cisco UCS has been automated for infrastructure provisioning using Ansible,Terraform,AWX, Playbooks has been created end-to-end to automate resources, Cisco ucs configurations,vmware configurations via Ansible and AWX., Terraform is used to create,manage and destroy the resources from AWS,Vmware and Cisco UCS., Errror handling and reporting is incorporated using ansible., Involved in Ansible automation platform migration to move repos and playbooks out of Ansible tower to AAP.
Migrationofinfrastructurefromon Premtocloud
Wells Fargo International, Bangalore, Our Wells Fargo environment required migration of Infrastrcuture from On-prem to cloud using Hybrid cloud extension., Was involved in the installation, configuration and upgradation of HCX., Created HCX components like Site pairing, Network profiles, Compute profiles, Service mesh for migration of load from On-prem to Cloud., Performed Bulk migration and vMotion migration from and to Vmware HCX activated data centers., Created HLD and solution design of entire migration activity., Successfully migrated all the On-prem load to Cloud.
Citriximplementationengineerandadministrator
Wipro Infotech, Bangalore-560100, April 2014-dec 2014, Installation and configuration of Xendesktop 7.1,6.5 and provisioning of HSD and VDI desktops to an user setup of 1500 in ING Vysya bank(Bangalore), Configuration of License server, Citrix Director for the monitoring of the sessions and applications of the end-users., Configuration of PVS 7.1 for the provisioning of Vdisks for the user sessions., Installation, Configuration of Xen App Server 5.0/6.0/ 6.5 & Citrix Client Tools, Publishing Application as per client’s requirement, Administration of Citrix XenApp Farms, Configuration of Citrix Server policies, Load Management and Printers in the Farm, Assign, modifying application access to the users., Citrix & Terminal Server license management., Review the Event Logs for Errors and troubleshoot accordingly., Installing the Terminal services Licensing., Installing and Configuring Citrix XenApp Plug-ins., Create Citrix Profiles, Policies and Procedure. Generate Policies for Printing, and Load Balancing., Install Citrix & Application related patches on the servers via Installation Manager, Create and assign load evaluators, Installing and configure web interface and create service sites, Administration, Monitoring & Reporting using necessary tools. Capacity Management of the farm & provide recommendations. Citrix & Terminal Server License Management., Install, maintain & monitor Citrix Server by Citrix PVS Versioning making sure they are up-to-date with latest rollup hot fix and service packs as well server 2008 update, Publish applications, server desktops and contents, Configure printers and printer policies and manage print drivers and printer bandwidth, Configure, apply and prioritize policies in a XenApp environment, Create and configure XenApp administrator accounts and their permissions, Providing support in Citrix Presentation Server 5.0, application sharing, desktop sharing and configure are different Migration of Citrix presentation server 4.5 data store from access data base to SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 R2, Managing of Citrix XenApp5.0 Farm using Citrix Delivery Service Console (Server Management, Publishing & Managing of Applications & Desktops, Server loads Evaluation, Resource Managing), Performing all aspects of account management. User ID creation, Giving Rights to users and share folder, etc..., Publishing application. Deploying ICA client, printer driver mapping, shadowing users, checking sessions, managing server load and CPU utilization., Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment
Professionalreferences
Current Public references are available on http://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekanand
Additional professional references are available upon request.
Phone - India
+917829118716
Languages
English
Hindi
Telugu
Tamil
Kannada
Training
- Cisco UCS DCUC Training
- VMware ESX 6, ESX 6.5
- Microsoft Azure.
- EMC Clarion / VNX, VNXe
Disclaimer
I declare that all the information furnished by me above is true to the best of my knowledge.
Personal Information
- Father's Name: N Pranava Murthy
- Date of Birth: 07/28/89
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Wells Fargo
02.2021 - Current
Manager/Vmware,UCS Solution Architect
Vodafone
10.2018 - 02.2021
Senior Analyst Solution Engineer
Dell EMC
08.2016 - 10.2018
System and Implementation Engineer
Wipro Infotech
09.2011 - 08.2016
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