Krishno Chandrakar

 FLAT B-403, B Tower, 4th Floor, Ambika CHS, Plot A9, Sector 20, Nerul (West), Navi Mumbai – 400706
+91 -8582937399, KRISHNO_CHANDRAKAR@HOTMAIL.COM

Summary
A technology consultant with 12.9 years of hands-on experience on VMware Datacenter Virtualization, Private Cloud with
vRealize product, Network Virtualization, Storage virtualization and Microsoft technologies. I bring an innovative and
pragmatic approach to analyzing complex business needs, enabling me to conceptualize, design and implement cutting
edge solutions based on the latest virtualization, storage, and VDI technologies.

 Currently working with VMware India as Consultant (Partner)

 Holding technology certification with VCP6.7-DCV, VCA-6.7, VCP 6.5, VCA 6.0, VCP 5.5, MCSA, ITIL v3 certified

Technical Skills & Experience

Implementation and support with best practices for availability, reliability, and performance of compute, network, and
storage resources to achieve dense virtualization ratios while maintaining SLAs and surpassing disaster recovery RTO/RPO’s.
Specific experience includes:

 Extensive VMware Virtualization Experience -implement, and manage VMware vSphere, and NSX environment.
 Installing, Configuring and Implementing Experience with VMware vSphere products and features such as VMware
ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 5x and vSphere 6X environments with vCenter management, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion,
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vSAN.
 Installing, Configuring and Implementing Experience with vROPs Manager.
 Installing, Configuring and Implementing Experience with VMware NSX products and features –L2 Switching,
Routing, Firewalling, Load balancer and NAT.
 Solid experience and knowledge of commercial computer hardware such as (HP DL Series, Blade HP C7000 and IBM
models in a virtualization data center environment.
 Experience of architecture design, implementation and administration of vSAN Storage virtualization.
 Hands on experience in iSCSI, and Fiber Channel protocols, Fiber Channel cabling, and zoning.
 Knowledge and working experience with Windows (Preferred 2008 or later versions) and Active Directory
 Network knowledge, skills and demonstrated experience in a complex network data center environment
 Able to work and interact with others in a structured / team environment.
 Independent problem solver with troubleshooting, decision making with analytical skills.
 Flexibility and adaptability to handle competing work demands.
 Demonstrated ability to communicate to nontechnical audience on technical issues.

Professional Experience Summary

 Oct’19 - Present: Pi-Datacenter Pvt Ltd as VMware Consultant

 Project: VMware Software India Pvt Ltd, India

 NSX Skills:
 NSX and their uses cases
 Components of NSX and their functionalities
 NSX - how to prepare hosts, how to deploy controllers
 NSX - Edge/LB features and how to deploy it and its components (pools, app profiles, VIP etc...)
 Understanding on steps to manage NSX manager and generate logs

 Hardware Management:
 RAC Configuration
 HP Blade server Hardware access / Management / Troubleshooting / Raising case with HP
 Change Management process
 Datastore configuration process

 vSAN:
 Datastore configuration process in vSAN
 Know about vSAN scalability, high-performance, and secure infrastructure with the only vSphere-integrated storage
virtualization software.
 Good understanding Power Traditional and Cloud-Native Applications
 Understand Simplified Operations Easily roll out new infrastructure and applications with minimal training.
 Helped customer to achieve better price per performance by supporting the latest storage technology on industry-
standard servers.
 Knowing HCI anywhere with the industry’s broadest ecosystem: 18 OEM server vendors and native services with
leading public clouds including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud and Alibaba Cloud.
 Able to convey message why Customers Choose VMware vSAN & helping them with Cost Savings and HCI’s benefit

 Site Recovery Manager:

 SRM list of components and their functionality
 SRM Services running on SRM components and their usage
 Understanding steps to deploy and manage SRM
 vSphere replication components and their management
 List the services running on replication appliances and their uses
 List all SRM and vSphere replication logs and their uses and steps to generate them
 Know the steps to perform site pairing in SRM
 Understand steps to configure replication and options available and their uses
 SRM - creation of PG/Plan & SRM - performing DR test/ standalone DR

 vSphere Products:
 Having idea of services running on host, vCenter, their purpose and functionality.
 How to start and stop the services and their impact
 In-depth of HA, DRS, Migrations, performance metrics, esxtop
 Steps to add LUNs to host and add as datastore
 Extend existing datastore
 Steps to create distributed switches
 Moving host/vm network between vds and standard switch

 Log Management:
 Log locations of all the solutions/components in current Infrastructure setup
 Setup to generate logs
 Understanding of log files and their usage

 Troubleshooting:
 Steps to troubleshooting, host not responding/disconnected state
 Steps to troubleshooting VM not powering on issue
 Steps to troubleshooting performance issue
 Steps to troubleshooting failed migrations ( vmotion/svmotion )
  Finding locks on vmdk/vmx files
 Troubleshooting network connectivity issues on host and vm
 Troubleshooting replication errors
 Troubleshooting failed DR test troubleshooting standalone DR

 Security Related Tasks:

 Security review for all vSphere Components i.e. ESXi, vCenter, NSX, SRM etc
 TLS Setting done on almost all vSphere Prodcut
 Coordinating with Auditor and making compliance to our environment as per their regulation

Previous Experience
 March’16 - Sep’19: IBM India Pvt Ltd, Kolkata, India as IT Specialist
 Project: Bank of Nova Scotia, Canada

 June’15 - Feb’16: Capegemini India Pvt Ltd, Kolkata, India as Consultant – Infrastructure - VMware
 Project: Fairfax Media Pvt Ltd

 Oct’10 - June’15: Accenture India Pvt Ltd, Kolkata, India as IT Operation Analyst – Infrastructure-VMWare
 Project: Sanofi Aventis Group

 July’10 - Oct’10: Net Connect Pvt Ltd, Kolkata, India as Administrator Infrastructure, Wintel
 Project: FirstSolution Pvt Ltd

 Dec’09 - Jun’10: Team Lease India Pvt Ltd, Kolkata, India as Administrator Infrastructure, Wintel
 Project: FirstSource Soluton Pvt Ltd, Kolkata, India

 Nov’07 - Jul’09: Microland Ltd, Gurgaon, India as ROFC Engineer Infrastructure, Wintel
 Project: BACS, Gurgaon,India

 Dec’06 - Nov’07: CMS Pvt Ltd, Delhi-NCR, India as Administrator Infrastructure, Wintel
 Project: Birla Home Finance Ltd, Delhi, India

Education

 MCA from Distance Education SMU, 2011

 B. Sc (IT) from MCRPV, Bhopal in 2005
 Intermediate from BOYS HSS, BUDHAR, SHAHDOL, MP, INDIA in 2002 with I Division
 High School from BalVadi Samiti Higher Secondary School, Budhar, SHAHDOL, MP in 2000 with I Division

Training

 VMware Advanced Troubleshooting workshop V6.7 5 days Training, 2020

 VMware vSAN Deploy & Manage Training V6.4 5 days Training, 2020
 VMware NSX-T Install, Config, Manage V2.4 5 days Training, 2020
 VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale plus Troubleshooting v6.7, 5 days Training, 2020
 VMware vSAN Production Operations V6-7 2 days Training, 2019
 VMware Cloud Automation: Design and Deploy [V7.1] 5 days training, 2018
 VMware NSX: Troubleshooting and Operations 5 days training, 2018
 VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.4] 5 days training, 2018
 VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage plus VMware vSAN: Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.6] 5 days training, 2018
  VMware 6.5 Performance & Optimize Scale, 2018 5 Days VMware
 Internal IBM Training on Troubleshooting of vSphere and UCS, 5 days IBM 2017
 vSphere Performance & Optimize Scale Training, 5 days VMware 2014
 VCP5 Training from VMware, , 2011. 5 Days VMware 2011
 ITIL V3 Training, 2010. 1 Day Internal 2010
Certification

 VMware vSphere 6.7 Foundations, 22-Mar-2020

 VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization [VMW-00853763T-00141628], 11-Sep-2018
 VMware Certified Professional 6 -- Foundation [VMW-00853763T-00141628], 13-03-2017
 VMware Certified Professional 5 - DCV [Candidate ID: VMW-00853763T-00141628], 27-Feb-2013
 ITIL Foundation V3 in 2012 [1202#311562682], Dec. 2012
 Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator [Candidate ID: SR5348909], Oct. 2008
Personal Detail

Father’s Name - Mr. Mohan Lal Chandrakar

Date of Birth - 26th August 1983
Passport No - Z2970989
Marital Status - Married
Language Proficiency- English, Hindi