siby varghese, Delivery Lead Vmware - Windows

siby varghese

Delivery Lead Vmware - Windows

Hewlett Packard

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems
Experience
20 years, 10 months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 10 months

Delivery Lead Vmware - Windows at Hewlett Packard
  • My current job since July 2003

• Experience of 11 years in System Administration and system consultant at enterprise level offering IT services to national as well as international sites 24x7 round the clock.
• Manage projects, collaborate with project team, interface with clients, and use technology to build successful solutions for clients.
• Knowledge and experience on Virtualization with VMware design, implementation and management for more than 3000 virtual servers.
• Understanding of building Business Continuity solutions using High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR).
• Design and implemented the SRM (Site Recovery Manager) by using HP Integrity Virtual Machines.
• VMware ESX 5.0, 4& 3.x & VSphere hosts and VM’s Administration and Monitoring.
• Extensive knowledge and expertise on VMware implementation & management for a complex environment
• Understanding of building Business Continuity solutions using High Availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance
• VMware ESX 2.x, 3.x and 4.x Hosts and VM’s Administration and Monitoring
• Expertise with Remote Management Tools like DSView, ILO and RDP.
• Coordinates and assists with planning virtual infrastructure initiatives (P2V initiatives)
• Windows server 2008, 2003 and 2000 Administration
• Installation & Configuration of Active Directory
• Installation & Configuration of DNS & DHCP Servers
• Active Directory Administration and User Management
• Blade Logic Compliance Management software(Configuration Management)
• Expertise with Remote

Data Center Engineer at Motorola India Electronics Pvt Ltd,Bangalore,India
  • India - Bengaluru
  • February 2006 to July 2008

 Monitoring and administrating the production servers for resource utilization and availability
 Prepare weekly and monthly status report for alerts, deployment status of security updates and OS patches, backup reports status
 Monitoring of log and event information for any abnormalities, change violations by team, pending issues if any.
 Ensure clear, timely and accurate reports are generated and timely take corrective action in case of failure/breakdown, liaison with respective vendor for resolution.
 Implementation of VMware ESX Server & P2V and V2V for Production, Development and Test environments as per the client requests.
 Physical 2Virtual and Virtual 2Virtual Conversion via VMConverter.
 Active Directory Services, Administration
 Installation, Configuring & Administration Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers.
 Installed and configured DHCP server; Back up of servers using VERITASBackup Exec/NTBackup
 Managing and monitoring VERITAS Backup Server with Robotic Library managing and allocating the Disk Quota Using VERITAS Storage Exec.
 Management and monitoring of File server, WEB Servers, Application Servers.
 Installing, configuring and maintaining MS cluster for Win2k and win2k3 servers.
 Monitoring performance logs, alerts, disk utilization in Servers Using Monitoring tools.
 Configuring RAID level in server as per the business requirement.
 Scanning the network for vulnerability, deploying Patches and Software updates using Microsoft System Management Server.
 Managing Symantec Antivirus 10.2 with Symantec System Center and Account policy through group policies.
 Configuring User rights Assignment, Security Options and Auditing Policies.
 Trouble shooting problems of Internet and Intranet Connections.
 Installing and configuring of Remote Access.
 Create, add and remove users, changing user information at Domain level.
 Data file and partition recovery using advanced tools.
 Account management in view of user’s issues, security management like setting up of rights, permissions and user access to resources.
 Daily monitoring NAV updated patches and troubleshooting user problems.
 Securing the all the Corporate servers by monitoring and fixing the Problems.
 Using IT Infrastructure Management Tool ‘BMC Remedy’.
 Administration and Maintenance of a Windows based network of over 3500 Workstations running on Windows XP & 2K and all data center Servers Running Windows 2000 & 2003.
 Verification of help desk escalation, reviewing issues for escalation to third level support.
 OS Hardening for the server with different OS \[Win2k and Win2k3\]
 Vendor Management: Tracking down h/w and s/w failures of the infrastructure of the Bank and its offsite Branches, initiating and coordinating troubleshooting activities with the respective vendors and service providers, ensures the minimum downtime as per SLA, Preparing and keeping proper documentation.

Systems Supprt Engineer at Inet Solutions and Technologies, Kerala State,India
  • India
  • June 2003 to January 2006

 Server and network administration services and consulting services to small- to medium-sized customer s.
 Project-based assistance for larger corporate accounts. Supported manufacturing, medical, financial, Educational and legal firms.
 Facilities management services like server management, network management, antivirus management, asset management, vendor management, desktop management.
 Supporting Servers, Network and Desktops for various clients. Installation and configuration of Client Operating systems such as windows 2000 and Windows XP.
 Maintenance and trouble shooting of computer hardware problems and software for clients.
 Symantec Server, Windows 2000 server Administration Network administration.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Systems
  • at Bishop Moore College,Kerala University,
  • April 2000

Specialties & Skills

Windows Server
Windows Server 2000 2003 2008 2008 R2
Windows Server 2003 2008 Administration
MS Servers 2003 2008 XP Vista Windows 7 VMWare
WINSOWS 2000
WINDOWS 2003
Windows 2008
Active directory
ITIL V3
Windows 7 administartaion
Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Office -All
Windows server 2012

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Hewlett Packard,Go Green Intaitive
  • Member
  • July 2008

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified Solution Expert MCSE-2012 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Information Technology Infrastructure Library ( ITIL-V3 ) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2010
Valid Until:
January 2010
VMware Certified Professional – VCP-410 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
March 2011
Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Enterprise Administrator -Windows 2008 (Certificate)
Valid Until:
April 2010
Microsoft Certified System Engineer,(MCSE & MCSA-2003 & 2000) •(CCNA)(CCSA-NGFirewall) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2000
Valid Until:
April 2003
VMware Certified Professional – VCP-510 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2012
Valid Until:
February 2012