Author

My name is Daniel Simelka and I am located in Schwerte, NRW, Germany. I´m working in the IT industry since 2003, so I have  round about 14 years of experience. I started as an Administrator dealing with a lot of topic. But over the year I focused more and more on VMware and since 2012 I do it every day as a consultant.

I am currently a IT Senoir Expert working for Computacenter AG & Co. oHG in Germany. I primarily focus on Datacenter Infrastructur with vSphere and vSAN within the Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC). I also do/did some HCI things like PernixData, Nutanix or Simplivity. Recently I started with VMware NSX so the future will be interesting.

Certifications

Citrix PresentationServer/XenApp 4.5/5

CCA XenDesktop5

VMware Sales Professional – VSP

VMware Technical Sales Professional – VTSP

VMware Certified Associate – Data Center Virtualization (VCA-DCV)

VMware Certified Associate – Workforce Mobility (VCA-WM)

VMware Certified Associate – Network Virtualization (VCA-NV)

VMware Infrastructure 3.5 – VCP 3

VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization VCP5-DCV (V5.1)

VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization VCP5-DCV (V5.5)

VMware Certified Professional – vSphere 6 Foundations

VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization VCP6-DCV (V6)

VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Professional 2019

VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Professional 2022

VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization 2020

VMware Specialist: vSAN 2017

VMware Specialist: vSAN 2022

VMware Certified Master Specialist – HCI 2022

VMware Certified Specialist – Cloud Foundation 2022

vExpert 2016

vExpert 2017

vExpert 2018

vExpert 2019

vExpert 2020

vExpert 2021

vExpert 2022

Cohesity Sales Professional

Cohesity SE Professional

Cohesity Accredited Installation Professional

PernixData – PernixPrime

Nutanix Platform Sales Rep. (NPSR)

Nutanix Platform Sales Engineer (NPSE)

Nutanix NCSE-Core

Nutanix Sizing associate

Veeam Sales Professional (VMSP)

Veeam Technical Sales Professional (VMTSP)

SimpliVity Certified Professional

Zerto Certified Sales (ZCS)

Zerto Certified Professional (ZCP)