Marco Mattei
Marco ist unser Alles-Könner und baut seine eigenen Tastaturen
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- Experience
- 5 years of IT experience
- Languages
- DE · EN
- 5 years IT service provider
Awards
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Broadcom Knight - VMware vExpert
Focus areas
- Data Center Infrastructure
- Compute and storage virtualization
- Network virtualization
- Security and segmentation
- Kubernetes with VMware VKS and alternatives
- Data protection with Zerto and VMware VLR
- Automation
Technologies
Further education
- Informatiker/in EFZ für Berufsumsteigende Systemtechnik
Certifications 43 · verified via Credly
VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Automation 2026 
VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation VKS 2026 
VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Networking 2026 
Broadcom Partner Certification - Certified Expert - VMware Cloud Foundation - Architecture 2026 
Broadcom Partner Certification - Broadcom Knight - VCF Networking 2025 
Broadcom Partner Certification - Broadcom Software Knight - vSphere 2025 A selection. 37 further active certifications are not shown.
Project history 6 periods
- 2026
Financial Sector
System Engineer
Concept and setup of a Kubernetes platform based on VCF 9 and VMware VKS for Professional Services on behalf of Broadcom.
Service Provider
System Engineer
Setup of a new cloud platform based on VCF 9 with focus on NSX VPC networking and VCF Automation for Self Service
- 2025
Public Administration
System Engineer
Support in the further development of the Kubernetes platform based on VMware VKS
Financial Sector
System Engineer
Design and setup of vSphere and vSAN ESA clusters for VDI environment
- 2024
Innovation
System Engineer
DevSecOps support for integration and setup of the VMware VKS platform and deployment of applications.
IT service provider
System Engineer
Support in building a fully automated, air-gapped environment for setting up VVF and VCF Pods with Ansible.
- 2023
Defense industry
System Engineer
Operational support in the area of networking with NSX and containers with VMware Tanzu.
Healthcare
System Engineer
Decommissioning of an old infrastructure and rebuild of a dual-site Alletra dHCI 6000, including migration of approx. 800 VMs with Zerto and vSphere configuration.
Public Administration
System Engineer
Design and implementation of a virtualization environment with VMware VCF, Tanzu, and VMware NSX with possible expansion to dual site.
- 2022
Research
System Engineer
Implementation of vSphere cluster with Alletra 6000 iSCSI storage.
IT service provider
System Engineer and Deputy Project Manager
Design and implementation of LAB based on vSphere, Horizon VDI, vSAN, HPE, Microsoft Active Directory.
Industry
System Engineer
Configuration and setup of Azure AD, migration of Exchange Online, migration of SharePoint Online.
- 2021
Public Administration
System Engineer
Implementation of datacenter virtualization with Nimble dHCI.
Industry
System Engineer
Management and troubleshooting of Microsoft Active Directory, SharePoint, and Exchange.
Architecture
System Engineer
Implementation of a multi-site datacenter infrastructure with FC-SAN and vSAN.
Industry
System Engineer
Hardware upgrade of datacenter infrastructure and upgrade of vCenter & ESXi to 7.0.
Posts
VVF 9.0 Supervisor with the Foundation Load Balancer
The 9.0 release of VMware vSphere Foundation brings new ways to deploy the vSphere Supervisor. One of them is the built-in Foundation Load Balancer.
Tanzu default storage class
I was recently playing with Helm charts on Tanzu Kubernetes clusters and ran into a few problems. Here is a quick tip if you hit something similar.
Install vCenter without DNS
A lot of people believe you cannot install vCenter without a DNS server in the environment. Not quite. It is not ideal, but it works.
Build your own Homelab – Part 2
In this installment, I will walk you through the initial steps of configuring the basic infrastructure required for my nested vSphere homelab with NSX and Tanzu.
Build your own Homelab – Part 1
In this blog series, I want to take you on the adventures I undertook to build my own nested NSX & Tanzu homelab. This endeavor encountered some issues, as expected from a nested configuration.