Manivannan PA, Assistant Manager - Server Administration

Manivannan PA

Assistant Manager - Server Administration

Aparajitha Corporate Service (P) Ltd

Location
India - Chennai
Education
Diploma, Diploma in Computer Technology
Experience
5 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :5 years, 11 Months

Assistant Manager - Server Administration at Aparajitha Corporate Service (P) Ltd
  • India - Chennai
  • September 2008 to July 2014

• Overseeing the technical implementation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting of windows servers (2003/2008/2012) local and remotely using administration tools like RDP, IBM CMM, ILO, VM Console, SCCM, etc.
• Accountable for
o Installing OS, databases and application software under multi-platform environments, deployment of servers and monitoring the same
o Installing, configuring and maintaining of virtualization on ESXi servers with virtual centre and Hyper-V
o Configuration, administration and troubleshooting for VMware ESXi servers, HA, DRS, VMotion and troubleshooting of virtual centre
• Monitoring VM’s & ESXI servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for security compliance, creating templates, editing and deploying VM's using templates, managing snapshots and restoring, cloning of VM's, configuring V Switch and ports
• Executing hot conversion and cold conversion of physical server's to VM's and VM's to VM's, creating and managing VMware cluster and enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster
• Responsible for moving VM's from one LUN to another LUN using storage VMOTION, maintaining server health by checking performance monitor logs, disk- space utilization, events viewer reporting, taking corrective measures and monitoring that all servers are properly updated with the Latest Service Pack, Patches, Firmware, Drivers, etc.
• Performing critical changes and performance tuning on messaging servers and working as per the alerts from monitoring tools like V centre, IBM CMM, ILO and SCOM
• Reviewing and initiating measures for automating / streamlining internal processes
• Conducting research on new software, generating daily and weekly server performance reports, identifying & developing vendors for procuring IT related products & devices at reasonable cost-effective rates and ensuring reliable backups to meet operational and data recovery requirements
• Formulating strategies for disaster recovery management including planning and designing servers for backup and recovery of server / database information and determining backup time using throughput rates and Monitor the backup and restore process.
• Looking after gamut of tasks including monthly offline backups and data growth projections, managing physical tape libraries (LTO5) tape based, which were backing up Servers, most of them were file system backups, few oracle databases and few MSSQL databases
• Scheduling and Managing block level reduplication backup using Symantec Backup Executive
• Managing storage allocation and diagnosing and reporting storage related problems on servers
• Automating the environment for common activities like health check/RDP check post patching

Education

Diploma, Diploma in Computer Technology
  • at Sun Institute of Technology
  • May 2004

The Diploma in Engineering Diploma in Technical Studies is a technical degree below the undergraduate rank which aims to provide students with some basic knowledge of engineering, scientific, computing, mathematical techniques, a sound knowledge of English to communicate in the job field and ability to apply the basic problem solving techniques

High school or equivalent, SSLC
  • at SLBGHS School
  • April 2001

The Secondary School Leaving Certificate (commonly referred to as SSLC) is a certification obtained by a student on successful completion of an examination at the end of study at the secondary schooling level in India. The SSLC is obtained on passing the grade 10 public examination commonly referred to as 'class 10 board examinations' in India.

Specialties & Skills

Virtualization
Server Administration
Data Center
IT Infrastructure Management
Symantec Backup & Restore and managing IBM Tape library
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
VMware ESXi Server 5.5&6, vSphere5.5&6 / Hyper-V
Dell Power Edge Servers, IBM x Series Servers
Trend Micro Office Scan & MacAfee
LAN/WAN, Wireless Networking (Aruba), MPLS VPN, DNS, DHCP
IBM Flex Server & IBM V3700 Storage
Cyberoam 100ia, 500 ING, Sonic wall NSA 2400, Tz210
Windows XP, 7, 8.1 &Windows Server 2003/2008/2012
HP BL 460c Blade Servers, HP MSA 50 Storage

Languages

Tamil
Native Speaker
English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Microsoft Specialist: Windows Server 2012 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Microsoft Certified System Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
January 9999
Red Hat Certified Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Microsoft Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2010
Valid Until:
January 9999
Microsoft Certified System Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
January 9999