Dhiraj Dhall is an experienced cloud infrastructure consultant with over 11 years of experience in strategic consulting focused on next generation data centers, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Desktop as a Service (Daas). He provides expert consultation in cloud strategy, technical assessments, solution design, migration, and delivery of infrastructure and platform services. Dhiraj has extensive experience designing and implementing cloud solutions using technologies such as VMware, Cisco UCS, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Red Hat OpenStack.

1. Dhiraj Dhall
Phone +91-9910746668
Email dhalldhiraj80@gmail.com
Professional Summary
Dhiraj is an accomplished 11.7 year cloud infrastructure consult and technologist focused in strategic thought
leadership concentrated around next generation data center, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a
Service (Paas), Desktop as a Service (Daas) & End User Computing.
Dhiraj provides expert consultation in cloud strategy, technical assessment, solution design, migration, and
delivery of infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and subsequent network, storage and
virtualization components. Dhiraj has a proven track record of results within the fortune 500 and international
business community attributed to his successful methodological approach. Dhiraj is a highly motivated,
business minded, organized, goal oriented, and energetic individual with excellent communication, presentation
and management skills. Dhiraj is competent in team and project management, delivery, implementation and
support.
Core Competencies across Organization
Technical Concentration: FlexPod cloud infrastructure, IaaS (infrastructure as a service) PaaS (platform as a
service), Cloud implementation: VMware vSphere 4 and 5 infrastructure: vCenter, ESX Virtualization,
VMware vCloud Director, VMware Site Recovery Manager, Zerto, Nsx 1000v, Cisco Unified Computing
System (UCS), HP C7000 Chassis and Flex10, Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2012 Servers, MS
Active Directory
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
 Successful infrastructure migrations to virtual data center (VDC)
 Successful private cloud infrastructure architectural design and implementations
 Successful public cloud infrastructure architectural design and implementations
 Successful flexpod architectural design and implementations
 Successful deployments of FlexPod - Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) & Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
implementation.
 Successful deployments of Cisco UCS compute cluster with ESXi 5.x
 Successful deployments of Cisco 1000v VSM within vSphere 5
 Successful cloud multi-tenant design and deployments
 Successful deployments of VMware vSphere – vCenter and ESX(i) 4.x, 5.x
 Successful deployments of Microsoft Hyper-V
 Successful deployments of VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.x and Zerto.
 Successful deployments of VMware vcloud director 5.x
 Successful deployments of HP C7000 Chassis and flex10
 Successful deployments of Red Hat Open stack Platform.
 Working knowledge of Amazon Cloud(AWS)
 Working knowledge of VMware vRealize Automation(vRA), vRO
Engagement Delivery Experience:
 Deliverable responsibilities include: configuration survey and review, implementation, remediation, testing
and training of FlexPod cloud infrastructure with focus on virtualization and compute technologies.
Implementation of FlexPod infrastructure as a private, hybrid and multi-tenant cloud solution. Additional
responsibilities include:
 Executive presentations discussing cloud computing business development and strategy
 Presentation to business units and executives demonstrating FlexPod / HP c7000 Chassis with Flex10 based
virtualization technologies
 Creation of High Level Design and Low Level Design for FlexPod / HP c7000 Chassis with Flex10 / vSphere
5 infrastructure and Red Hat OpenStack.
 Manage proof of concepts, exploratory projects to identify, evaluate suitable Cloud Computing (Public & Pri
vate Clouds, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS)
 Delivery of FlexPod / HP c7000 Chassis with Flex10 compute infrastructure
 Logical configuration design review of FlexPod / HP c7000 Chassis with Flex10 Infrastructure as a Service
(IaaS)
 Configured and deployed Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5
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2.  Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5
infrastructure
 Configured and deployed VMware SRM for Disaster Recovery/ Business Continuity
 Configured and deployed vCloud Director 5.x, VCNS.
 Implemented Zerto and Site Recovery Manager( SRM) for EMC and Hitachi Storage for storage based and
vSphere replication.
 Designed cost effective Solution on vSphere 5, SRM, using Storage/Network Sizing, Network/
Storage/Cluster/VM design methodology
 Installed and configured VMware Chargeback and integrated with vCloud Director.
 Configuration and management of EMC Clarion CX-320/CX-500 storage (creating Raid Group, Storage
Group and Assigning LUN to ESX/HP-UX/windows host, Zoning).
 Configuration and Management of NetApp storage (creating Aggregates, Volumes, LUN and Assigning
SCSI/FCP LUN to ESX/Windows) through NetApp system Manager, Filer View.
 Configured Two Node Cluster of SQL 2008.
Behavioral Skills
BUSINESS FOCUS
 Understanding the technological needs of the business and end users and keeping them in mind when
taking actions or making decisions.
CREATIVITY
 Taking innovative approaches to problem solving and devising inventive and creative solutions.
TEAMWORK
 Working co-operatively (rather than competitively) with others to achieve a common goal.
 Interacting with team members, outsourcing agencies, customers and vendors for integration of
operations, computer hardware, operating systems, communications, software applications and data
processing while concern schedules, Budget and maximize the benefit of the product.
 Leading a team of Engineers to provide service delivery to the required service levels, in LAN, WAN and
VMware networking environment and organizing meetings.
Organizational Experience
Orange Business Service Virtualization/Cloud Consultant June’14 – Till now
• Architectures (Logical and Physical Architectures) to depict customer’s current environment and
recommended future requirements on CISCO UCS Platform.
• Provide support in creating customer virtualization and Cloud proposals, designing work specifications, pricing
proposals and writing service description documentation
• Experience in Architecture, Design, and Implementation of highly scalable, highly available, Cloud (IaaS,
PaaS,) services and solutions.
• Experience with CISCO UCS, HP hardware like C7000 blade enclosures,& Dell Enterprise level hardware
• Expert with VMware product suites including vSphere 5.5e/vCloud/vCOPS) and hypervisors (4.x, 5.x).
• Expert with SRM (Site Recovery Manager) and integration with storage replication platforms (I.e.
RecoverPoint).
• Validation of HLD(High Level Design) and LLD (Low Level Design), creation of LLD2 based on Implementation
• Reviewing HLD ,LLD, SRF and INM of customers and suggesting changes.
• Implement new Infrastructure, Enhance Capacity, Upgrade Environment, Version upgrade ( OS, Service
pack, Firmware etc )
• Update Runbooks with configuration changes
• Risk Assessment of the Infrastructure , Capacity & Performance Assessment
• Problem Root Cause Analysis, Document & Handover to Operations team.
• Configuration changes to UCS & Server estate.
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3. • Association with vendor for Infrastructure Interoperability.
• Review Capacity & Performance related issues and identify the underline cause.
• Review Problem records and implement the fix.
• Proficiency in understanding design/implementing/Managing VMware, HyperV Virtualization technologies
• Proficiency in building and maintaining high-availability environments’
• Proficiency in working in a high-availability clustered environment
HCL COMNET Virtualization Consultant Nov’12 – June’14
• Designed cost effective Solution on vSphere 5, SRM, using Storage/Network Sizing, Network/
Storage/Cluster/VM design methodology.
• Installed, Configure and upgrade vCloud Director from 1.0->1.5->5.1, vShield Manager from 4.1 to 5.1.
• Installed and configured VMware Capacity Planner 2.5 and integrated with vCloud Director.
• Sizing Memory, CPU and Storage for Virtualization Infrastructure.
• Designed PSP(Path Selection Policy) and Update Manager solution for Projects.
TCS Virtualization Architect Oct’11 – Nov 12
• Currently working for Project, Implementing and Supporting their VMware and VCenter infrastructure.
• Design virtualization by keeping redundancy at every level like server, storage, and network.
• Installation & Up gradation of ESX Server 5.0 using remote management utilities like ILO, DRAC.
• Installation & Up gradation of Guest operating Systems (Windows and Linux Family) on ESX Server.
Implemented all advance features of vSphere 5.0 like Storage vMotion with snapshot, Data store
heartbeat etc.
Managing VMware VDI comprise 300 virtual Desktop
• Root Cause Analysis for recurring problems, critical incidents and service/server outages.
• Proactively monitoring the system's health and taking preventive or corrective action as required.
• Checking the entire log file to make sure that the installation went fine without any warning/error
messages.
HCL Technologies, Noida Senior Engineer-IT Nov’06 – Oct’11
• Worked for Internal IT Support of HCL, Implementing and supporting their infrastructure.
• Responsible for entire Virtualization environment running for Production, Testing and Development.
• Business planning for new services and designing new DR sites for existing services.
• Providing on call support for 20 Project / businesses across the globe.
• Solving day to day Level-3 problems (escalations) and following it up with the customer/vendor until
closure through ticketing system like Remedy.
• Installation & Upgradation of ESX Server 4.1/4.0 using remote management utilities like ILO, DRAC.
• Installation & Upgradation of Guest operating Systems (Windows and Linux Family) on ESX Server.
• Root Cause Analysis for recurring problems, critical incidents and service/server outages.
• Proactively monitoring the system's health and taking preventive or corrective action as required.
• Checking the entire log file to make sure that the installation went fine with out any warning/error
messages.
• Checking whether all the features of the guest operating system are working normally and deploying
VMware tools on all operating systems.
• Downloading latest updates from Microsoft and upgrading the Windows VMs to the latest patches and
validating the guest OS on different versions of ESX.
• Providing on-call system support over round the clock for technical analysis, diagnosis, installation,
maintenance, and modification to resolution or escalations in a 3-Tiered environment ensuring 100%
compliance with Service Level Agreement.
• Participating in business calls, process meeting in weekly basis to analyze and review the change
request, business critical incidents.
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4. Alpha Thought Technology Senior System Administrator Dec’04 - Nov’06
• Worked on Microsoft Virtual PC.
• Installation and Configuration of Windows 2000 Servers.
• Installation and Configuration of RAS server.
• Installation, configuration & administration Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS server, ISA 2004, File &
Print Servers.
• Installation and Configuration of Symantec Antivirus Server.
• Creation and Implementation of Security Polices.
• Configured domain security policies and OU based structure for Active Directory
• Installation configuration and administration of Microsoft Exchange Server
• Purchase management and Vendor co-ordination
• Inventory and asset management
Academia
 2000 BCom in Account, Economics from Maharishi Dayanand University, Haryana.
 2004 MCA from Maharishi Dayanand University, Haryana.
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Certifications
 RED HAT CERTIFIED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR IN RED HAT OPENSTACK (EX 210)
 Zerto Certified Professional (ZCP-Cloud)
 DCUCI (Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing)
 VMware Certified Professional 5--- Data Center Virtualization
 VMware Certified Associate - Data Center Virtualization
 2000 Server Certification (MCSE)
 CCNA
 ITIL
Seminars Attended
 Seminar on Hyper-V on Win 2k8 R2 at HCL Technologies, Noida.
 Seminar on VMware "VMware vSphere" at HCL Technologies, Noida
 Seminar on Citrix Presentation Server
Date of Birth: Jan 20th
, 1908
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