Dharanee Dharan

With over 12 years of experience in IT industry, I have developed in-depth knowledge of virtualization technologies including VMware & Nutanix HCI along with datacenter administration and public cloud administration. Additionally, I have good proficiency in server vulnerability management and addressing vulnerabilities effectively.

Server Administrator (VMware & Nutanix) (Present)

• Hands-on experience on Nutanix management tools - Prism Central & Prism Element.
• Migrated over 2000+ servers from VMware to Nutanix AHV based platform via MOVE appliance.
• Working on Nutanix cluster deployment with multiple hardware models Lenovo, CISCO.
• Installation, configuration and Deployment of Nutanix Clusters using Foundation appliance.
• Working on Expanding and Node removals from the Nutanix clusters.
• Working on VM migration from vmware environment to Nutanix AHV environment by using the Nutanix Move tool.
• Working on VM deployment and providing support in Nutanix AHV and VMware environment.
• Monitoring the Nutanix cluster utilization (Storage) from Prism Element and maintaining the utilization under the threshold.
• Provisioning and Deprovisioning of the Virtual machines using Templates, OVF & OVA.
• Upgrading VMware Tools and VM hardware, NGT, VirtIO for Virtual Machines.
• Migrating VM's through VMotion, cold migration and Storage VMotion.
• Working on basic troubleshooting on AOS and CVM issues by running the NCC health checks.
• Working with Nutanix vendor for the support to resolve the product and vulnerabilities issues.
• Coordinated cross tower and implemented the ESXi hardening controls over 20,000 objects (ESXi, portgroup, DVSwitch, storage) addressing Sev4 & Sev5 vulnerabilities.
• Lead & executed a project which involved - Implementing VMware Best practice & resolved 2158 P1 vCenter health vulnerabilities resulting in standardization & optimization of overall virtual infra.
• Upgraded ESX – ESXi 5.5 to 6.0 and to ESXi 6.5, 6.7, 7.0, 8.0
• Executed organizational initiative from virtualization front, successfully migrating critical VMs and physical workloads to Hyper Converged Infrastructure (VSAN) practicing best possible migration actions using vSphere Replication, vSphere vMotion and VMware standalone converter (P2V, V2V).
• Lead and executed, project involving Hyper-V hosts by creating NIC teaming and provisioning network redundancies at hypervisor level resulting in High Availability.
• Proactive monitoring of virtual environment through vROps and performed alert fine tuning to run the virtual infra efficiently.
• Configure and manage vSphere Standard switch and Distributed switch.
• Build, configure and manage Templates and VMs.
• Build, configure and manage virtual machines through SCVMM.
• Created technical documents for new implementations & knowledge documents on regular operational tasks.

Data Center Administrator

• Rack & Stack physical servers, Install and configuring physical servers with ESXi, Windows and physical appliances (F5, Qualys).
• Monitoring hardware alerts & coordinating with vendor in part replacement & resolution.
• Upgrade BIOS and device firmware on the HP, DELL, CISCO, HITACHI and IBM servers.
• Handling day-to-day operations on data center such as cabling, decommissioning physical servers using DBAN software and degaussing machine.
• Manage physical servers through remote management system for various servers make.
• Basic knowledge on using CISCO Flexpod converged infra & UCSM, Hitachi converged infra and Dell VxBlock, Dell VxRail & Cisco Hyperflex.

Master of Business Administration in Business Administration – College of Engineering, Anna University (2014-01 – 2017-01)

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications – Velammal Engineering College, Chennai (2009-01 – 2013-01)