Matthias Grasmück
Matthias ist unsere «Maschine» und arbeitet unermüdlich.
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- Experience
- 17 years of IT experience
- Languages
- DE · EN
- 4-year apprenticeship as a Systems Engineer EFZ
- 13 years at an IT service provider with a focus on IT infrastructure and platform projects
Awards
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Broadcom Knight - VMware vExpert
Focus areas
- VMware Software-defined Data Center (SDDC) technologies (ESXi, vSAN, NSX, Tanzu, Aria Operations for Networks)
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- Software-defined networking and distributed security
- Micro-Segmentation Assessments
- Health Check
- Root cause and performance analyses
Technologies
Further education
- Informatiker EFZ mit Schwerpunkt Systemtechnik
Certifications 27 · verified via Credly
Broadcom Partner Certification - Certified Expert - VCF Networking - Architecture 2026 
Broadcom Partner Certification - Certified Expert - VCF Networking - Implementation 2026 
Broadcom Partner Certification - Proven Professional - vSphere Kubernetes Service - Architecture 2026 
HPE ASE - Storage integrator solutions 2026 
HPE Certification Distinction Program - Professional achiever 2026 2026 
Broadcom Partner Certification - Broadcom Knight - VCF Networking 2025 A selection. 21 further active certifications are not shown.
Project history 3 periods
- 2023
Healthcare
System Engineer & Solutions Architect
Technology/-ies: VMware Tanzu, vSphere, NSX, vSAN. Assessment, design, and implementation of a proof-of-concept datacenter container platform (including hypervisor, SDS, and SDN infrastructure).
Public
System Engineer & Solutions Architect
Technology/-ies: VMware Tanzu, vSphere, NSX. Assessment, design, and implementation of a datacenter container platform (including hypervisor and SDN infrastructure) across multiple sites.
- 2022
Defense
System Engineer & Solutions Architect
Technology/-ies: VMware Tanzu, vSphere, NSX, vSAN. Design and implementation of a datacenter container platform (including hypervisor, SDS, and SDN infrastructure). Training of the operations organization in understanding and working with the new container platform and its technologies.
Banking & Financial Services
System Engineer & Consultant
Technology/-ies: VMware NSX (Datacenter & Security). Health check and optimization analysis of over a dozen NSX Datacenter infrastructures around the globe. Consulting on the introduction of Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) systems based on the existing SDN solution.
- 2021
Executive Branch (Police)
System Engineer & Solutions Architect
Technology/-ies: VMware Cloud Foundation. Design and hardware design of an SDS infrastructure as well as design and implementation of an SDN infrastructure in a multisite private cloud architecture based on VMware Cloud Foundation.
Service Provider
Solutions Architect & Technical Sub-Project Lead
Technology/-ies: VMware Cloud Foundation. Consulting and support in developing a solution design and automation processes for a service platform based on VMware VCF.
2009 - 2020
Consulting, planning, design, and implementation of highly available multisite datacenter infrastructures/platforms in the end-user computing and hybrid cloud domain, domestically and abroad. Proactive services including regular health checks, root cause and performance analyses, and various migration projects.
Posts
Authenticate with the vSphere Supervisor API
Have you always wondered how to log in directly to the vSphere Supervisor API to communicate directly with the Kubernetes API without having to rely on kubectl-vsphere or vcf-cli command line tool?
IaaS Control Plane – wrong NSX edge cluster for T1 placement
After upgrading an IaaS Control Plane environment to vSphere 8.0.3, the T1 SR instances of the vSphere namespaces stopped landing on the edge cluster they were meant to.
IaaS Control Plane – API inaccessible
After upgrading the Supervisor cluster of our IaaS Control Plane platform to vSphere 8.0 Update 3, kubectl access to the Kubernetes clusters stopped working.
Distributed Network & Security Services
Virtualised networks have been running on hypervisor platforms in data centres for more than 20 years. What has changed is what they now have to cover: automation and security together.
Integrating Antrea into NSX
Registering a Kubernetes cluster running Antrea with the NSX management and central control plane, so groups, policies and trace flows are managed in one place.
vSphere with Tanzu and NSX Advanced Load Balancer – avi-secret not found
An interesting behaviour turned up during a functional test of a vSphere with Tanzu container runtime platform combined with the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer.
vSphere with Tanzu and NSX Advanced Load Balancer with a private CA
From vSphere 8.0 Update 2 you can deploy vSphere with Tanzu using NSX as the networking stack and NSX Advanced Load Balancer as the integrated L4 load balancer. With a private CA it fails.