Working as a Senior Solutions Architect at different clients Jaguar Land Rover,

Lloyds Banking Group, Vodafone, etc. Designing and Implementing Cisco UCS Server
and Networking, VMware virtualisation stack and EMC VNX/VMAX Storage in Vblock.
Designing Windows Server 2008/2012 Active Directory forest and domains on HP/IBM
/Dell servers. Designing DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Terminal Services, etc on Wind
ows Server 2003/2008/2012.
Designed and Implemented vRealize Automation 6 and vCloud Automation Center 5.2
solution for virtual environments with vSphere, vCloud Director and AWS EC2 Clou
d endpoints.
Designing approval policies, machine & application blue prints, build/update pro
files and workflows for automating complex tasks like provisioning a complete pr
ivate cloud.
Designing VROps 6 monitoring solution for Vblock & vSphere infrastructure using
Custom Dashboards, dynamic groups and different adapter instances like VCE Visio
n, vCloud Director, SNMP, etc for monitoring the specific component data.
Designing and Implementing test environment vApps in vCloud Director with base W
in 2008/2012/RHEL 5/Solaris VMs, MS Active Directory installation & configuratio
n and appropriate VLAN-backed network pools for the vApps.
Designed and implemented storage architecture with capacity planning for Netapp
fibre channel SAN and Netapp vFiler NAS shares. Configured iSCSI/fibre channel s
torage datastores with security (CHAP) for multipathing policies.
Designing, Administering and troubleshooting issues with storage including FAST
Cache/VP, Auto-Tiering, LUNS/MetaLUNs, SAN Zoning, LUN Masking, RAID Group/Stora
ge Pools Management, etc with VMAX 20K in Vblock 720 and VNX 570
Designing and implementing changes to the VMware & EMC storage infrastructure.
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Installing and using provisioning & monitoring tools like UIM/P & UIM/O
respectively for end to end vBlock management.
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Using tools like Cisco UCS Manager, vSphere 5.0 and EMC Unisphere for im
plementation & troubleshooting of issues with Compute, Network & Storage Layer i
n the vBlock system.
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Storage Administration tasks like carving LUNS/MetaLUNs, SAN Zoning, LUN
Masking, RAID Group/Storage Pools Management, FAST VP management, Mirrorview/Re
coverypoint Management, etc on Clariion CX3, CX4 & VNX 5700.
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High-level Troubleshooting involving SP Logons/Tweaks & Triiage Analysis
for issues like SP crashes, Notification template corruption, Auto-tiering misb
ehaviour, etc.
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Administering EMC Celera & VTLs used to provide NAS shares to various in
-house projects.
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Providing Consultation on deriving optimum utilisation out of the Storag
e & VMware Infrastructure and pro-actively monitoring it. Enhancing the storage
utilisation by implementing features like Thin Provisioning, Compression and Fil
e Deduplication.
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Using EMC Ionix Control Center for managing alerts, notifications & sett
ing data collection policies. Utilising the StorageScope repository, Performance
Manager & Unisphere Analyser to present statistics & graphs of the key componen
ts in the Storage Infrastructure.
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Managing and maintaining the VNXe array used to host the AMP tools in th
e vBlock. Troubleshooting complex issues involving SP reboots & Smart Call Homes
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Managing ESRS (EMC Secure Remote Support) Gateways & troubleshooting iss
ues with Dial Homes on different arrays.
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Using the Cisco Fabric Manager for SAN zoning, monitoring the attached d
evices in the Flogi database of MDS Switches, troubleshooting issues with switch
ports, etc.
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Upgrading the Clariion/VNX OE, MDS Switches NX-OS & all the management t
ools used for storage management/administration in the vBlock.