I'm thrilled to announce that I've embarked on a new adventure and joined HCLTech as a VMware Consultant

Managing VMware infrastructure with more than 200 ESXi host running on 5.5, 6.5 & 7.0 versions.Managing & maintaining vCenter’s running on 6.5 & 7.0 in different environments. Planning & upgrading live vCenter servers from 5.5 to 6.5 & 6.5 to 7.0 version.Creating upgrade repo & policy for ESXi host upgrade in Lenovo Xclearity administrator.ESXi Host firmware upgrade through Lenovo Xclearity administrator. Working on New Build ESXi hosts on Lenovo SN550 hardware along with Chassis configuration.Working with Storage & Network team for Storage IO module & Network configuration on Chassis. Creating Host profiles & Tech Specs remediations for ESXi hosts under compliance requirements. Monitoring Virtual machines, storage, migration & resources extension on VMware infrastructure.Monitoring virtualization infrastructure Capacity\Storage and provide advice on capacity requirements.Creating & Using PowerCLI scripts for automate required task and ESXi Host\ VCenter configuration.Used VMware standalone convertor for P2V & V2V Migration of servers.Configuration & Monitoring of vSphere vMotion, HA, DRS and FT in vSphere 5.5 & 6.5 Environment.Designing and documenting different migration approaches like, lift & shift, re-host, refactor, revise, rebuild & replace strategies.Creating & Deploying Virtual Machines, Clones, Snapshots and Templates.Collaboratively working on Cloud Networking and Cloud Integration.Acting as technical liaison between clients, account teams and implementation teams.Heading Compute, networking and Database streams in Cloud platform.Using IBM & GCP Cloud APIs for the applications and connecting it to internal Load Balancers.Creating Helm packages for applications and automating the deployment on Kubernetes.Creating a Kubernetes cluster and automating the application deployment on it.Implementing and supporting infrastructure post migration and ensure resilience high availability of high critical applications.

Monitoring virtualization infrastructure Capacity\Storage and provide advice on capacity requirements.Managing VMware infrastructure with ESXi 5.5 & 6.5 host, vSphere Client and vCenter Server.Configuration & Monitoring of vSphere vMotion, HA, DRS and FT in vSphere 5.5 & 6.5 Environment.Creating & Using PowerCLI scripts for automate required task and ESXi Host\ VCenter configuration.Used VMware standalone convertor for P2V & V2V Migration of servers.Upgrading vCenter server from 5.5 to 6.5 & Host firmware upgrade. Monitoring Virtual machines, storage, migration & resources extension on VMware infrastructure.Implementing end-to-end environment in IBM Cloud, which includes 800+ instances, and DB's.Designing and documenting different migration approaches like, lift & shift, re-host, refactor, revise, rebuild & replace strategies.Creating & Deploying Virtual Machines, Clones, Snapshots and Templates.Meeting and discussing application teams to provide best possible solution to migrate the servers with resilience & fault tolerance.Experience working on Container based platform in IBM & GCP Cloud (GKE, Docker in VM) including Container Repository.Designed and created the IBM & GCP Cloud architecture, Configured Route tables, Internet Gateways, NAT, Security Groups and Access Control Lists.Experience in configuring Site-to-Site, Point to Site VPN and ExpressRoute/Direct Route from On-Premise Environment.Collaboratively working on Cloud Networking and Cloud Integration.Designing Cloud-First business-process optimization roadmap.Acting as technical liaison between clients, account teams and implementation teams.Heading Compute, networking and Database streams in Cloud platform.Deploying Scripts to check existing security flaws of entire IBM & GCP Cloud environment.Experience in performing data classification to put right data in right storage, which includes Blob, Table & File storage.

Oversee of around 4100+ server’s & 1500+ VDI Desktops over Virtual Platform.Creating & Deploying Virtual Machines, Clones, Snapshots and Templates.Monitoring virtualization infrastructure Capacity\Storage and provide advice on capacity requirements.Managing VMware infrastructure with ESXi 5.5 & 6.5 host, vSphere Client and vCenter Server.Day to day activities on Horizon View infrastructure related to connections, slowness, availability issues.Working with IBM PCM team for capacity planning for Virtual infrastructure. Configuration & Monitoring of vSphere vMotion, HA, DRS and FT in vSphere 5.5 & 6.5 Environment.Creating & Using PowerCLI scripts for automate required task and ESXi Host\ VCenter configuration.Horizon View infrastructure (130+ Dedicated & Floating pools) administration on 5.5 & 7.0 versions.Recompose\Refresh\Rebalance VDI pools with updated master VDI image.Used VMware standalone convertor for P2V & V2V Migration of servers.Upgrading vCenter server from 5.5 to 6.5 & Host firmware upgrade. Maintaining Daily Health Checks & Reports for VMs\ESX Host\Data stores\VDI pools.Providing security compliance under relevant security policies.Providing support to project Manager in RFS requests for new VM\Storage\IP pools.Proactively managing the VMware\VDI environment to prevent incidents from occurring.Root cause analysis, Problem Management and Architectural Management.Working on user Incidents, Changes, Service Requests, Problem Records in Service Now tool. Monitoring Virtual machines, storage, migration & resources extension on VMware infrastructure.Proactively identify inefficiencies in operations with the objective of improving the quality of the working environment.

 Installation, Maintaining windows server, Active Directory services and components, Creating & Managing users, groups, computers, OU, delegation Control and group policy, Securing and restricting user working environment using windows group policy object. Configuring, & troubleshooting user roaming / mandatory profiles & Home Directory Deploying windows and other Application (msi) on client machine through group policy Monitoring server & network resources availability and utilization using application. Deploying Windows OS remotely using windows Remote Installation Service & WDS  Managing DHCP server leases, scopes & IP address distribution for different-2 subnets HP ProLiant ML350e E5-2400 Server management with using mirror and RAID-5 Data backup using NTBackup and Symantec Backup Exec -12.5 backup utility.

responsible to manage IT Dept. servers & desktop Infrastructure.