Murali Shankar

• Infrastructure professional with extensive experience in the Enterprise Datacenter & Private Cloud domain.
• Experienced in VMware VCF & vSphere infrastructure, Nutanix, Azure, Storage, SAN & Server portfolios of HPE, Dell & Brocade.
• Good communication skills and comfortable working under very technical and time-sensitive constraints.

• Delivered production-ready greenfield VCF deployments for banking infrastructure with management/workload domains and integrated lifecycle management ensuring compliance, driving end-to-end bring-up, hardening, and handover.
• Deployed NSX infrastructure encompassing logical switching, routing, distributed firewalls, and Edge services; configured policy-based vSAN storage clusters for integrated private Cloud architecture.
• Led migrations from VMware vSphere to VCF using HCX and executed hybrid-cloud migrations of VMware workloads to Azure with Azure Migrate.
• Optimized resource utilization and capacity planning with vRealize Operations (vROps); implemented enterprise DR/BC capabilities using VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Deployed 2 Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI) integrated with vSphere; orchestrated migration of 300+ VMs (on each infra) with VMware Converter and Nutanix Move, achieving zero-impact cutovers.
• Administered, troubleshot and optimized performance on ESXi, vCenter, and VMs; executed full lifecycle management including patching, in-place upgrades, platform upgrades (vSphere 5.5-->6.x-->7.0.x-->8.0.x), vMotion, HA/DRS optimization, and vLCM-based node lifecycle management on Nutanix HCI.

M. Sc Computer Science (2003) from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. | Aggregate Marks: 67.1%.