GMS-Senior- SAMS VMware licensing Consultant

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Summary

Working in a team environment, the Consultant- SAM is responsible for managing customer’s licenses. The Associate Consultant will assist customers in understanding and controlling their software licensing entitlement, avoiding legal pitfalls related to licensing by leveraging industry best practices while expanding host company licensing opportunities and building more-profitable, long term relationships with our customers .

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities for the Role

• Review and analyse VMware licensing agreements and entitlements, ensuring they comply with all contractual obligations and VMware’s licensing models. -
• Create and manage VMware compliance reports, license position reports, and track usage to ensure all VMware licenses are being used optimally and in compliance with VMware’s terms. -
• Identify opportunities for optimizing VMware licensing for cost savings, better utilization, and compliance with VMware's product offerings and virtual infrastructure. -
• Provide guidance on VMware’s various licensing programs, including vSphere, vCloud, VMware Cloud on AWS, and vRealize Suite, and advise internal teams on the appropriate program selection. -
• Analyse complex VMware licensing scenarios (, perpetual vs subscription licenses, host-based vs processor-based licensing), ensuring proper allocation and usage. -
• Assist with negotiations for new VMware licensing agreements, renewals, and managing relationships with VMware representatives to ensure favourable terms and cost-effective solutions. -
• Offer insights on licensing for VMware's virtualization technologies (, VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN, NSX) –
• Technical working knowledge of VMware cloud middleware product suits like Tanzu Kubernetes, VVF, VVS, and VMware on AWS / Azure to provide insights to customer for optimizing license consumptions.
• Perform reconciliation of VMware TAM, LMS and All License View entitlement reports to prepare license entitlement summary
• Prepare data request list (DRL) documents to capture VMware product footprints using tools such as VMware License Server, Flexera, RV Tools, and Power CLI Script to track VMware license entitlements, usage, and compliance along with RV Tools and Power CLI scripts.
• Knowledge about including automation for report preparation of all VMware products for reconciliation with entitlements.
• Understanding of licensing rules in VMware hosted environment. Well versed with different virtualization technologies, data collection techniques and product consoles.
• Prepare customized reports and comparison for cost savings along with recommendations on how to license, reconcile, re-harvest licensing entitlement.
• Develop and implement policies and procedures throughout the software development life cycle for VMware products being used in customer environments
• Active management & allocation of tasks and task type to ensure balanced workload distribution across the project team along with execution of individual tasks on projects based on the guidance provided by the Managers
• Management of the Quality of the engagement deliverables across assigned team members & ensuring 100% adherence to Quality standards.

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