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I'm Suresh Rathinam. A Systems Engineer & IT Architect Making State of the Art IT Infrastructure.

Lxware is a tribute to Linux, Opensource and the bestminds out there. I’m passionate about building & transforming infrastructure. I want to make solutions that would change and touch life.

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Vagrant for Development Environments

Introduction Vagrant is a tool to automate the build and manage virtual environments in a unified workflow. The tool is easy to use, drastically reduces the virtual environment setup time, and I consider it the first step to Infrastructure as a Code for development...

Zoho Suite for new business & freelancers

Are you starting a new business ? Confused about where to start ? Feeling Lost among the numerous solutions available for collaboration, finance, sales & Marketing? How about integrating the data between all the softwares? Will there be  a signficant capital...

Captivated to Programming

I used to be a Nerd since a child, meddling with mechanical components, spares of motors, circuits and bulbs always fascinated me. I still remeber the excitement after accidentally fixing a Radio Transistor as they were named in the 90's. Many Christmas holidays were...

my services

Proprietary

VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi , Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenApp, Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, RedHat Enterprise Linux KVM, IBM SmartCloud Entry, Azure, AWS, IBM PureFlex, SAN, NAS & Networks.

Solution Design
High level design, service maps, infrastructure design, low level design.
builds & upgrades
Core Infrastructure , Virtaulization , Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
migration & Re-platforming
Physical to Virtual, Virtual to Virtual, Replatforming applications.

OpenSource

OpenStack, Linux KVM, oVirt, PROXMOX, XCP-ng, UCS, ClearOS, Vyos, Nfsen,  OPNsense (pfsense), Endian, SoftEther, OpenVPN, ownCloud, OTRS, OrangeHRM, Nextcloud, Zabbix, Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Bacula.

poc & greenfield
PoC of New Technology or New Solution non disruptively in the existing environment or in isolated environment or Bubble. Greenfield form the scratch infrastructure builds.
Availability & Disaster recovery
High Availability, Fault Tolerance, DR Strategy, Replication, Backups ensuring defined uptime SLA, RPO & RTO.
Compliance, strategy & budgeting
Enforcing Compliance to Quality and Datasensitive standards like PCI, Non-Public Personal Information at all levels. Strategical approach on growth, adoption and budgeting.

My Process

Define

Requirements & Scope

Design

Affected components and integration

Refine

Essential actionables, and remove unwanted items.

Build

Templatised, Optimized, Scripted and Automated where possible.

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About Me

Hello! I’m Suresh. I’ve Been Building & Transforming IT Infra for 15 Years

Seasoned & skilled in end to end IT Infrastructure. Quicklearner, absorb any new technology and tailor as needed in Greenfield deployments and Transformations.

  • Solutions & Builds
  • Virtualization
  • IaaS Cloud

Vagrant for Development Environments

Introduction Vagrant is a tool to automate the build and manage virtual environments in a unified workflow. The tool is easy to use, drastically reduces the virtual environment setup time, and I consider it the first step to Infrastructure as a Code for development...

Zoho Suite for new business & freelancers

Are you starting a new business ? Confused about where to start ? Feeling Lost among the numerous solutions available for collaboration, finance, sales & Marketing? How about integrating the data between all the softwares? Will there be  a signficant capital...

Captivated to Programming

I used to be a Nerd since a child, meddling with mechanical components, spares of motors, circuits and bulbs always fascinated me. I still remeber the excitement after accidentally fixing a Radio Transistor as they were named in the 90's. Many Christmas holidays were...

Years of Experience

Virtualization Projects

Transformation Projects

“Suresh is a multi-faceted technical leader who can really make things happen for the business. He is a specialist in incubating new technology capability and enabling teams with right set of skills. His technical depth on various systems and platforms are exemplary. Very enterprising personality with lot of positive energy. He will be a great asset to any organisation he works.”

Jagan Kandasami

“Suresh is a dedicated person, quick learner of any technology be it VDI or clustering, storage. I was happy to work with him, we can forget the work once given to him, he is good at planning and executing flawlessly. Personally he is good and maintain good relation with all.”

Velayutham Karani

“It was a pleasure to work with Suresh during managing Infrastructure Transition projects at Microland. Always prompt with identifying technical risks towards the new infrastructure and advise suitable solutions towards mitigating them in the most cost optimised way. He was the key person supporting the Citrix infrastructure for multiple customers and received multiple accolades for successful deliveries delighting the customers with his technical expertise as well as excellent interpersonal skills. A great team member who is easily approachable as well as mentors others whenever required to share knowledge and keep the spirit high for all activities. Wish him good luck for all his future endeavours.”

Amit Pramanik

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