Making things virtual at scale

I inspire people to improve themselves and share/give back the knowledge to community

My recent presentations:- Automating VM deployments with Packer and Ansible (03.2019)- A short overview of VMware vRealize Orchestrator (01.2019)- VMware vCenter Transformation: Windows to VCSA; external PSC to embedded (11.2018)- Technical overview of VxRail 4.5 and Horizon 7.4 with Nvidia GRID cards (03.2018)- Certification: is it worth the effort (09.2017)- Overview of VMware vCenter 6 Topologies (03.2017)

- Designed a highly available distributed HCI solution for new DMZ project- Gave the business simple infrastructure analytic growth/usage dashboards and resource chargeback- Worked on automating VM deployments with Ansible and Packer- Lowered RPO/RTO and simplified DR architecture with Stretched clusters- Handled mass datacenter migrations with no or minimal downtime- Architected and deployed a new VDI environment, based on hardware blocks for easy future sizing and growth- Improved unification and compliance of VMware hosts with Host Profiles

- Performed an upgrade of VMware View 5.3 to 6.0- Designed and deployed corporate VDI based on VMware View 5.3- Migrated multisite VMware environment from 5.0 to 5.1 and then to 5.5- Implemented VEEAM, MS DPM 2012 and Double-Take backup and DR solutions- Designing, testing, implementing and maintaining critical enterprise server environment- Administering a LAN with a mixture of Physical and Virtual Servers- Maintaining communications between primary, satellite and DR locations- Researching and implementing new products and solutions

- Led system administrators team- Coordinated physical, virtual and network infrastructure upgrades and improvements- Chose and purchased hardware and software- Designed, implemented and operated VMware Infrastructure solution- Deployed VMware ESX/ESXi servers- Tuned virtual machines for maximum performance and reducing storage load- Upgraded VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1 to 5.0, then to 5.1- Upgraded VMware vCenter from 4.1 to 5.0, then to 5.1- Implemented and tested various VMware products including Update Manager, vShield, View, vCloud, SRM- Setup and designed additional network for SAN/NAS, vMotion and management traffic- Configured VMware Clusters, DRS, HA- Used Veeam and VMware Data Recovery for backups- Migrated physical servers to virtual with minimum downtime using VMware Converter, Acronis and other tools- Created virtual machines templates and used them to build new servers and workstations- Installed new Microsoft Hyper-V Servers- Configured Hyper-V farm with System Center for QA department- Deployed App-V applications for delivery to the end users- Installed storage servers- Setup SAN/NAS LUNs, RAID groups- Migrated company 2003 domain to 2008R2- Migrated production servers to Windows Server 2008R2- Administered and maintained wired and wireless networks, Windows servers, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, WSUS, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2010, Microsoft SQL 2005/2008/2012- Managed and maintained Linux servers, iptables, squid, samba

- Administered Active Directory and DNS services- Created Active Directory Group Policies- Managed Microsoft DHCP, WINS, WSUS and WDS services- Managed and deployed Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/2012- Managed Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2010- Installed test environments with Active Directory, SQL, Exchange and Sharepoint servers for development and QA teams- Installed Linux servers for development and QA teams- Performed server backups with NTBackup, Norton, Acronis and Windows Server Backup- Performed SQL server databases backups and maintenance - Administered corporate Symantec antivirus solution- Created templates using sysprep for deploying through WDS- Deployed new Windows Servers 2003/2008/2008R2- Deployed new user workstations- Created new user accounts and mailboxes in Active Directory and Exchange, provided necessary rights to servers and applications- Monitored wired and wireless networks- Managed network ACLs and VLANs- Fixed hardware and network issues- Provided technical support for users

- Consulted in disaster recovery services, data replication- Provided professional services in long range migration between datacenters and migration to the cloud infrastructure- Built failure-protected infrastructures- Protected critical servers and services from hardware or software failures- Implemented High Availability in client's Windows infrastructure- Prepared and organized POCs for clients- Provided user support for Double-Take product- Implemented Double-Take protection and migration for various projects- Deployed VMware solutions- Installed MS System Center 2012 for internal usage- Wrote project documentations

- Designed and built optic and cable networks- Designed and built long range wireless networks- Installed and maintained Windows servers and services- Treated servers and workstations for viruses- Implemented firewall protection, NAT and VPN services for offices- Provided technical support for the clients

- Administered workstations and servers based on Windows- Solved network issues- Protected infrastructure against viruses and security threats- Provided technical support for company employees