Dhimant Ruparelia

Senior Virtualization /Storage Infrastructure Engineer

Proven talent in Data Center/Infrastructure Engineering and delivering Storage Technology,

Networking & Virtualization Solutions. Designed and deployed large scale Storage environment
consisting of VMAX, VXRail, VNX , Unity and Scale IO. Implemented large scale implementation VMware
infrastructures including 6000+VM, VDI, Migration Activity, and Production Support in clients like SuperValu, DCNR
and Kashiv Pharma.

Experience Summary
Over 12 + years of experience in Information Technologies with expertise in area of Storage Infrastructure,
SSO, VMware virtualization technologies, & Monitoring tool and some of the security technologies
Architected and designed complex storage infrastructure for multiple sites
Managed Data Center migrations and consolidations.
Design and deployment of Hybrid cloud applications and on premises application integration with AD and
AZURE products
Experience in handling more than 3000+ mix of Windows server, 200+ ESXi servers, Remote data center,
Multiple vCenter
Expertise in deployment, implementation , architecting, Provisioning, tiering , FASTVP,
SRDF( Synchronous, Asynchronous ,DSE, Metro )/vp snap /snapVX/BCV/clone) on respective platforms
,VMAX20k/VMAX100k/VAMX850F
Expertise in deployment of FAST CACHE, STORGAE TIERING , snapshots, mirrorview recoverpoint on
VNX5600/VNX5300/UNITY.
Expertise in storage virtualization using VPLEX and replication using Recoverpoint with
VNX/VMAX/VPLEX/Xtrme Io
Expertise in software defined datacenter products like EMC VIPR controller , VMWARE VSAN,EMC SRM,
workload analyzer, access logix, snapview.
Expertise in EMC VxRail , Scale IO implementations and designs.
Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File and Print Servers, IIS (Web server), FTP, Terminal
Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange mail server in windows base server environment
Excellent knowledge in creating and managing users, permission setting, roles and responsibility assignment
and VM resource allocation on ESXi hosts
Extensive Experience in VMware Horizon View 6.0, architecture, implementer and administrator of the
environment
Extensive experience in VMware ESX/ESXi hosts 3.5, 4.1 & 5.x hypervisor and Microsoft virtual server
Hyper V
Experience VMware clustering, HA, DRS rules, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Snapshot manager, Cloning,
Template creation and deployment & VMware View 4.x/5.x, Site Recovery manager (SRM)5.0
Implementation of VMWARE NSX, and software defined networking
Strong understanding and hands on P2V, V2V, P2P using vConverter, Double Take
Hands on experience in Virtual standard switch, Virtual Distributed switch, VLAN mapping into VMware
Good understanding of windows and VMware server automation using scripting language Power shell, VB
Script, Power CLI
Proficient in monitoring Windows server, network devices via System Center Operation Manager(SCOM)
2007 R2 and deploying windows server patches using SCCM
Hands on experience on Data Center Disaster recovery on virtual platform
Efficiently co-ordinate with tech representative and vendor to resolve the problem
Worked at Tier 3 support representative for Windows and VMware in multi city complex environment
Leading team in technical and managerial aspect, train them for excellent service
 Weekly reporting to higher management, budget planning, ticket meeting, efficient outage handling and
minimizing down time of entire environment
Proficiency in Vendor management, contract renewal, escalation management
Hands on experience on storage platforms such as but not limited to HP EVA, HP MSA Family of arrays
Hands on experience on HP Rack and Blade Servers - 380/490/360 BL 460/480/490 G3/G4/G5/G6/G7 series
Career history

Kashiv Pharma LLC, Bridgewater, NJ

Sr systems Administrator (Infrastructure) Nov/2013 - Present
Build, architect and administer Storage Infrastructure for Multiple sites
Build Architect and Administer 10000 Virtual Machine Infrastructure including VMware, Hyper V, VDI
Design and architected Storage environment for VMAX, VNX,UNITY, SCALEIO and VxRAIL systems.
Designed and deployed hyper converged systems. 40+ four node VxRail systems, and 20+ 6 node Scaleio
system
Implemented SSD and other storage pools, protection domain, fault and fault sets on scalio , configured
various different network topology on scaleIO
Designed and deployed VxRail environment, configuring VSAN
Designed and deployed multiple ESX clusters on VxRAIL and scale Io HYPERCONVERGED platform.
Provisioned and configure 4 PB of Storage including mix of variety of EMC products, VMAX,VNX, VNXe,
Unity, SCALIO platforms. etc.
Implement and Administer SAN /storage environment on VNX/VMAX
Implement and administer NAS device deployments and virtualization
Consolidating SAN, Servers, Databases.
Implementing disaster recovery solutions.
Responsible for capacity planning and administration of SAN environment for boeing which contain data on
EMC VMAX2/VMAX3, VNX/VNX2/ISILON,

Architected VMWARE cloud environment, with excellent automated deployments using VRO and Vcloud
director

Architected and implemented highly secure environments using vshield and NSX and other products.

Architected Redhat KVM/Openstack environments

Implemented automation tools such as ansible/puppet /chef in addition to native tools like VRO .

Implemented hybrid storage/cloud environments, automation of provisioning on NFS/CIFS etc.

Implemented Disaster recovery for various storage arrays using synchronous and asynchronous replication.

Architected VMware stretch cluster.

Worked on brocade switches and created multiple zone as per requirement.
Build, architect and administer vCenter 4.1/5.1/5.5/6.0, VMware cluster, HA, DRS, VMWare Horizon View
6.0, Snapshot, Clone
Architecture, Administering VMware Horizon View VDI, allocating new VDI and maintaining
Installation, configuration and troubleshooting Recover Point and Double Take Disaster Recovery solution.
Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of DNS and DHCP.
Supporting SAN infrastructure, NAS infrastructure
Migrated more than 1000GB of Data to ISILON in multi-mode environment.
Lead Technology Implementation including vendor selection, System Architecture, Setting landscape,
Capacity planning, security, storage management and High Availability.
 Disaster recovery planning, implementation and recovering systems during crash or hardware failure.
Experience in IT decision-making, policy direction, planning, and team management. Participated in the
migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production
network.
Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with
company policy. Recommends resolutions to complex matters of significance and coordinate the
implementation of the approved course of action.

Supervalu Inc, Minneapolis MN

Lead System Engineer April/2011 Sep/2013
Handling complex enterprise environment with 3000+ Windows servers and 200+ ESXi hosts in two
datacenter and multiple remote locations
Installation and support of VMWARE ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.x/5.x server which hosts the virtual servers for the
test/dev/staging environment.
Build, architect and administer vCenter 4.1/5.0, VMware cluster, HA, DRS, VMWare View 5.0, VMware SRM
5.0, Snapshot, Clone
Taking care of P2V, V2V, P2P using vConverter & double take
Performance tuning for VMware ESXi hosts and Virtual Machine, setting up their CPU affinity rules,
allocating resources and fine tuning storage
Monitoring the resources and services on the servers using System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) 2007
R2, HP SIM & IBM Director, worked as SCOM administrator.
Storage configuration using SAN with IBM Blade Center s, HP EVA series

Architected VMWARE cloud environment , with excellent automated deployments using VRO and Vcloud director

Architected and implemented highly secure environments using vshield and NSX and other products.

Architected Redhat KVM/Openstack environments

Implemented automation tools such as ansible/puppet /chef in addition to native tools like VRO .

Managing 6000+ VM in production .

Architected and implemented Hybrid cloud environment with hyper-v/azure

Extensive experience in HYPER-V/AZURE

Expertise in Hyper-v, SCCM and other windows based technologies to manage on premises/cloud based infrastructure .

Implemented migration to cloud like Azure/AWS

Integrated Storage based replication with VMWARE SRM.

Implemented hybrid storage/cloud environments, automation of provisioning on NFS/CIFS etc.

Implemented Disaster recovery for various storage arrays using synchronous and asynchronous replication.

Architected VMware stretch cluster.

Supporting SAN infrastructure, NAS infrastructure
Installation and Support of Windows NT/2000/2003/2008/2008 R2 servers functioning in Multi-Tier
application environments.
Responsible for running Wintel on host operating systems (and applications) such as Microsoft Windows to
run in a protected, virtual environment in a window.
Installation and Administration of Fail over cluster in Windows 2000/2003/2008 environment.
 Managing the backups using the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and Backup Exec System Recovery.
Monitoring the servers using HP Systems Insight Manager to find any issues with the servers hardware.
Patch Management using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
Participation on disaster recovery planning, mock drill and preparation
Providing support for the infrastructure present in various locations across US.
Taking Care of all the Escalations and the priority issues, outage calls during off hours.
Leading 12+ off shore team, motivate them, train them and maintain constant support functionality
Attend the meetings with application teams on weekly basis to discuss the issues and the plans ahead.
Windows 2000/2003/2008, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESX/ESXi
4.0/4.1/5.x Server vCenter 4.1/5.0, HA, DRS, vMotion, vConverter, Double take, iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore
SAN, EMC DMX-3,5 and Clarion, Dell Power Edge Servers, Dell PowerVault NAS, HP Proliant, HP EVA &
HAS, IBM Blade Center SCOM, SCCM, Firewall, Remote desktop services

CMS Computers Ltd & HCL Infosystems ltd, Rajkot India

Field Maintenance Engineer April/2004 May/2008
Responsible for Complete Information and Technology Operation for TATA AID and CitiFinancial Customer
Server Management includes Microsoft Server 2003, 2000 AD, DNS DHCP RAS and Proxy Server.
Taking Care of all the Escalations and the priority issues, outage calls during off hours.
LAN and WAN (Router and Switches) Firewall ASA Maintenance
Server and workstation hardware troubleshooting
Desktop Maintenance includes client operating systems, application local network file sharing, print sharing
outlook exchange.
Inventory Management
Installation customization and maintenance of Desktop OS like windows 2000 professional, Windows 98, XP
Professional & DOS 6.22 etc

Education
Master of Computer Science Prairie View A&M University GPA 3.67 2011