Sujan Juvvadi
Prosper,TX
Summary
Infrastructure Cloud Engineer with strong experience managing server and storage infrastructures and data-center operations across multiple platforms. With over 10 years of experience as Systems Integration Specialist Advisor in VMware, SAN/NAS Storage and Windows Administration, Implementation, Installing, Monitoring, and troubleshooting of Virtualization and Storage technologies.
Experienced and motivated Systems engineer focused on hyper-converged infrastructure and Virtualization to provide high quality and positive results. Proven ability to leverage technology to achieve organizational objectives. Innovative problem-solver, whose technical areas of expertise include hyper-converged platforms, Virtualization, Storage, backups & replication, Operating systems, hardware, and systems integration.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Systems Integration Specialist Advisor
NTT DATA SERVICES
Plano, Tx
03.2019 - Current
- Worked alongside key vendors (Dell-EMC, VMWare, Veeam and CISCO Networking) to drive the development and deployment of their technologies within the environment
- Assisted the sales organization and customers by developing levels of expertise in VMWare products, programs, and policies
- Design, implement and manage VMWare vSphere environment
- Complete deployment of VMWare vCloud Foundation from Scratch
- Built management and Workload domains to separate the traffic
- Design Virtualization solution architectures using VMWare, Nutanix, Hyper-V, VxRail, Citrix and Cisco UCS to meet the functional and business requirements of organization across vertical and sizes
- Installed and Configured Cisco UCS from scratch beginning with physical rack and stack of Chassis, Fabric Interconnects and to the core switches
- Configured fabric interconnects and completed setup using the UCS manager
- Maintaining virtualization infrastructure underlying Hardware inventory warranty, licensing, and upgrade to comply with organization standards
- Installed, configured and maintained the VMware Horizon View 7.6 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment
- Installed and configured and managed Dell VxBlock Hyper Converged Infrastructure by combing storage, Cisco UCS and Networking solutions into one Rack
- Designed, implemented, and upgraded VMWare vcenters, Clusters with features like DRS, HA, vMotion, Storage vMotion and configuring of Standard and Distributed switches on vSAN, FC, ISCSI and NAS Datastores
- Perform vCenter upgrades through VxRail Manager from 6.5 to 7.0 and 8.0 through manual and internet upgrades
- Experience in managing ESXi 5.5/6.5, 6.7, 7 and 8 vCenter 5.5/6.5, 6.7 & 7 and 8 NSX-V, NSX-T, vRealize Suite
- Deployed VxRail Hyper Converged Solution to bring Cloud experience on Prem for faster deployment and lesser hardware to manage
- Implemented VxRail, NSX-T and VCF for Microsegmention of traffic for a more secure environment
- Implement NSX for Microsegment traffic for a more secure environment
- Deployed HCX on source and destination Datacenters and Performed VMWare HCX bulk migrations between the data centers and to the AWS cloud
- Architect, install, configure, and maintain VMware solutions as vCenter, vRealize Orchestrator, vRealize operations manager, Auto Deploy, Site Recovery Manager Installed, configured and maintained different types of PowerEdge series systems that include R, T, M, C and VxRail V series systems
- Performed hardware and software upgrades on Dell PowerEdge servers that’s include iDRAC configuration, updating drivers and troubleshooting
- Designed and deployed NetApp ONTAP Select solutions for mission-critical applications, tailoring configurations for optimal performance, data redundancy, and high availability
- Maintained in-depth documentation, including network and storage topology diagrams, standard operating procedures, and configuration change logs
Systems Integration Advisor
NTT DATA SERVICES
Plano, TX
08.2016 - 01.2019
- Responsible for understanding end customer requirements and providing the best suited solution
- Work alongside key vendors (Lenovo, VMware, Networks) to drive the development and deployment of SDDC technologies within the environment
- Experience working in large enterprise data environments
- Performed extensive research, design, buildout, deployed a plan for VMware infrastructure expansion including risk analysis, technical specifications and requirements gathering, capacity management, documentation, and implementation of the Hypervisor
- Installed, configured, managed, administered, and performed patch/upgrade and troubleshoot entire VMware ESXi v7.0, v6.7 Virtual Infrastructure utilizing vCenter v7.0, 6.7 and vSphere v6
- Strong experience in management and administration of Systems/SAN/NAS, Disk arrays, Backup infrastructure in Heterogeneous Environment
- Extensive knowledge of NAS and SAN Storage, including managing major migrations and deployments, maintenance and troubleshooting solutions
- Administered NetApp FAS and AFF storage systems, fine-tuning configurations, LUN provisioning, and snapshot policies for optimal performance and data protection
- Integrated NetApp storage systems with VMware, ensuring efficient and seamless storage access for virtualized environments.
Storage Services Advisor
Dell Services
Plano, Tx
04.2014 - 07.2016
- Hands on experience both with 7-mode and C-mode storage Devices
- Day-to-Day storage operations which include creating NetApp volumes and configuring snapshots and snap reserve and snap schedules and presenting over CIFS, NFS and iSCSI protocols
- Worked both on 7-mode and C-mode snapshot policies and setup schedules with respect to their policies
- Use of Snapvault and SnapMirror for backups and replications
- Worked on setting up of Clustered OnTap systems into the environment by installing the nodes and adding them into the cluster
- Created Aggregates and assigned them to the Vservers which are now called SVM
- Upgraded the OnTap Versions to 8.2 on both 7-mode and C-mode which requires special licensing system
- Created failover groups for node management, cluster management and data management LIF’s to failover to its next available LIF in the failover policy in the cluster to avoid any discrepancies
- Created datastores and provisioned the storage to ESX Servers for the VMware environment
- Hands on Experience with NetApp Release ONTAP 7.3.1/2/3P3, 8.1, 8.2 7-mode and C-mode
- Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 400 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter, Implemented and managed on Windows DNS/DHCP and WINS Worked on Remedy Incident & Change request tickets
- Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches.
NetApp Professional Services Consultant
Symantec
Tucson, AZ
03.2013 - 04.2014
- Migration from One Data Center to New data centers Racked/Stacked and installed different kinds of NetApp devices that include FAS3140, FAS3270, FAS6080, FAS6280, and FAS6290 and DTA2800 in the environment
- Worked on setting up of Clustered OnTap systems into the environment by installing the nodes and adding them into the cluster
- Created volumes and assigned them to the LIF’s thereby exported them using namespaces for NFS Exports
- Upgraded the OnTap Versions to 8.2 on both 7-mode and C-mode which requires special licensing system
- Created failover groups for node management, cluster management and data management LIF’s to failover to its next available LIF in the failover policy in the cluster to avoid any discrepancies
- Configured SnapMirror, Snapvault and Snapshots on NetApp Filers
- Added HNAS CIFS server to AD Domain and setup CIFS shares, NFS exports
- Setup system drive groups (SD Groups), super flush and preferred path on HNAS Have a good knowledge of HNAS File replication and Jet Mirror replication
- Configured Cluster Name Space on HNAS for ease of CIFS architecture
- Provisioned storage to HNAS from AMS2500 using SNM2(Storage Navigator Modular2) Worked on HNAS version 8.2.2374.01 and 10.2.3072.01 and managed 3090 systems
- Created HDP Pools and DP-vols from it and provisioned to Windows and Linux hosts
- Configured CIFS, NFS share and exported it to Windows and UNIX environment and then backup process between the filers at different geographic locations
- Trained in 7MTT and DTA2800 which are used as the primary tools to migrate/transition volumes and Luns from 7-mode to c-mode with minimal disruption
- Used Data Motion to do an active migration between volumes non-disruptively
- Worked on Solutions Builder and NetApp Synergy which are used in the design phase of the NetApp systems.
Education
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Texas A&M University
Kingsville, TX12-2012
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
JNTU-HYD
Hyderabad05-2010
Skills
- Virtualization SKILLS:
- VMware Cloud Foundation VCF, NSX, NSX-T, VxRail, HCX, vSAN, Nutanix
- SRM, vRA, vROPs
- VMware vSphere 8,7x/6x/5x, Citrix VDI, Horizon View
- Cisco UCS
- VMware enterprise converter
- Server/Hardware/Storage:
- Windows 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000 Servers
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, HP UX, MAC OS X, Solaris
- NetApp NAS, NetApp C-mode and 7-mode storage systems
- NetApp OnTap Select
- Scripting:
- Scripting Power Cli, Shell, Python
- Backup and Replication:
- Veeam Backup & replication
- Actifio enterprise backup and recovery
Certification
- VMWare Certified Professional 8.0 (VCP8.0-DCV)
- Dell-EMC Specialist-Implementation Engineer, VxRail Appliance (DCS-IE)
- Microsoft Certified Azure Data Administrator (AZ-104)
- NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA)
- NetApp Certified ONTAP Select Administrator
Timeline
Systems Integration Specialist Advisor
NTT DATA SERVICES
03.2019 - Current
Systems Integration Advisor
NTT DATA SERVICES
08.2016 - 01.2019
Storage Services Advisor
Dell Services
04.2014 - 07.2016
NetApp Professional Services Consultant
Symantec
03.2013 - 04.2014
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Texas A&M University
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
JNTU-HYD
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