About

Ankush Khanna is a highly skilled Senior Consultant at Capgemini with over 8 years of experience in deployment assistance and troubleshooting of Cisco Data Center Solutions. He specializes in Cisco ACI, Cisco Nexus Switches, and UCS Servers (Blade and Rack-mounts), and has extensive experience in troubleshooting complex network latency drops and discards related issues. Ankush has a strong background in Cisco ACI, with implementation experience of building an ACI environment from scratch and creating tenants, application profiles, EPGs, EP, contracts, subjects, filters, ASAv, L2out, L3out configuration, VLAN, AAEP, switch profile, policy group, domains, NTP, route reflector, monitoring policies, and VMM integration. He also has expertise in troubleshooting on Nexus 7k, Nexus 5k, and Nexus 2k, VPC configuration, supporting migrations and new data center implantations, VDC management, NX-OS upgrade, architecture related issues and queries, switch-profile/Config-Sync, pre-provisioning, FEX related configuration and associated topologies, GLBP, HSRP, VTP, STP, IGMP, QoS, and migration to Nexus Data Center Switches. Additionally, Ankush has experience in VMware deployment and troubleshooting, VMware network orchestration using VSS, VDS, vMotion, DRS, and good understanding of Cisco ACI concepts and deployment, VMware NSX, and Nexus Switch Automation using NXAPI. He is also well-versed in troubleshooting and deployment of server-grade hardware from Cisco, and has hands-on experience with desktop and server-grade operating systems like Windows, VMware, RHEL, and Citrix. Ankush has previously worked as a Senior Technical Consultant at Orange Business Services, where he handled deployment, assistance, and troubleshooting of Cisco Data Center Solutions including UCS Servers (Blade and Rack-mounts), Cisco Nexus Switches (2K, 5K, 7K, 9K, UCS FI, Load Balancer), and VMware deployment and troubleshooting. He also has experience as a Network Engineer at Aricent (Cisco TAC). Ankush holds a Bachelor's degree from MDU, with a specialization in Integration. He is a highly motivated and skilled professional with a proven track record of delivering successful projects and providing excellent customer service.