Total years of experience :11 years, 5 Months
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
•Providing end to end support for an US based pharmaceutical client.
•Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of VMware 4.1, 4.0 and 3.5 Core OS
•Working for VMware projects - Commissioning and Decommissioning the servers
•Provides support for Incident Management tickets
•Hardware vendor co-ordination (Dell and IBM) for hardware failures/replacements.
•Installing ESX Servers Patch and vCenters patching through Patch Management and health check Remediation in 26+ servers every 3 months.
•Managing Version of VMware ESX servers 2.1, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.1 through VCenter Server
•Profile Creating and Management. Data Store Creation and VMFS System Creation.
•VM Environment using IBM Storage and Net APP.
•VM Guest servers Performance Monitoring.
•Have Knowledge on New server deployments, ESX and VSphere Configuration, P2V, V2V,
V-Motion
Project: Henkel
•Supporting virtual Infrastructure comprising of VMware 31 ESXi servers and 700+ VM’s and 4 Virtual Centers
•Installation of ESXi, VCenter Server
•Upgrade and migration of ESXi and VCenter
•Configuring HA and DRS
•Creating DRS Rules
•Managing VCenter and ESXi Hosts
•Storage Consolidation
•Virtual Machine management
•ESXi patching using VUM.
•Performing health checks for ESX Servers
•ESXi host level issues co-ordinate with SAN team and Network Team.
HYPER-V Administration
•Provide the L2 support for 52 Hyper-V hosts.
•Creation of New VM’s and resource modification on Hyper-V VM’s
•New Hyper-V Host installation and coordination with client on delivery.
Knowledge Transition
•Worked on knowledge transition starting from due diligence phase
•Worked with Architects on shadow and parallel phase on migration, design and
Implementation
•Preparation of Process and work instruction document.
Projects
•ESXi Hosts & vCenter upgrade project (4.1 to 5.1)
•Metro cluster Project Implementation.
•Leading a team of 3 VMware L2 administrators
•SAP HANA Project supported to VMware Prospective.
•Core Switch Migration worked with Network team. (1000 Mbps to 10 Gbps Migration - ESXi Hosts)
Project : Henkel - (Germany and US)
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
•VMware ESX Server and VCenter Server maintenance
•Creating Cluster and HA, DRS Configuration.
•HA and DRS Testing every 3 Month.
•P2V Conversion as per request for Management.
•VM Guest Server weekly backup from V-Ranger pro Tool.
•Create LUN’s the SAN Storage (DS4800 and DS4300)
•Trading Application Support BSE, NSE, MCX and NCDEX (TCS, Acian Cerc and OMNESYS)
•Linux Proxy Server Maintenance & Linux Postfix mail Server Maintenance (Netcore)
•Installation and configuration of Windows NT, XP, Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server and Windows 2003 Server operating Systems.
•Provide Windows support and Trading Application support to 300 staff members in the corporate office.
•Daily maintenance of Exchange software like NSE TAP, BSE IML, MCX ODIN, NSE NEAT, BSE BOLT and NCDEX NEAT.
•Daily maintenance of trading application and controlling team for smooth execution of SOD, EOD activities for Trading.
•Monitoring trading application during trading hours and rectify if any problem occurs.
•Administration of Symantec Anti-virus Server & monitoring the clients for automatic update on anti-virus definitions from the server.
•Configuring the Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express for all the users to access mails.
•Configuring and Maintaining Domains, DNS, WINS, DHCP, File And Print and other Core Services.
•Fault tolerance in terms of RAID (hardware/software) configuring, taking backups using Windows Backup
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Maintaining and Troubleshooting more than 100 systems which has Windows 98, Windows NT workstation and Windows 2000 Pro.
•Maintaining and Troubleshooting Inkjet Printers and Laser printers in TCP/IP Networking.
•Maintaining and Troubleshooting Windows 2003 Servers, configuring RAID’s and disk quotas.
•Security and Backup with Norton Antivirus / Norton Ghost.
•Implemented and maintained Server configuration such as DHCP, DNS and WINS on Windows 2003 Server.
•Linux Proxy Server Management and configuration to clients.
•Oracle and SQL server database Servers Maintenance and Database back and Recovery.
•ADS Server Configuring and Maintenance.
•Outlook Express configuration and taking backup.
•Networking Management by installing Hubs and Switches.
Completed my graduate in Madras university (History)
B.A History