Manoj Akkarabonia

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Summary:

Upto 8+ years of IT experience primarily in Virtual infrastructure resources specializing in VMware vCenter server 5.0,5.5,6.0.

Extensive experience in working with ESXi servers – configuration, Installation, management and maintenance.

Experience in administrating and managing a 200 node VMware ESXi environment with multiple clusters.

Experience in implementing ESXi servers with efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots.

Knowledge of managing, maintaining, administering, troubleshooting high end network devices such as cisco routers, switches and ASA firewalls.

Advanced knowledge of Microsoft server technologies, such as Microsoft server 2003/2008/2012, Exchange 2003/2007/2010 and office 365, skype for bussiness, Active Directory, Windows Update Server (WSUS), and Windows Deployment Server (WDS) and how they interact on the network.

Advanced knowledge of backup server technologies such as Symantec Backup Exec versions 2012 and 2016.

Excellent knowledge in creating and managing users, permission settings, roles and responsibility assignments and VM resource allocations on ESXi hosts.

Experience in upgrading ESX/ESXi host, vCenter Servers from 5.0 to 5.5 to 6.0.

Experience with VMware view 5.5/5.1/4.6/4.5 and Virtual desktops deployments.

Dell hardware, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project requirements using VMware vSphere & vCenter related products.

Extensive experience with VMware Horizon View (VDI) 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 7.0.2 versions.

Experience in configuration and support of VMware Horizon Suite, Workspace, Mirage, View and vROPs.

Experienced in End to end designing, planning, implementation & deployment of VMware vRealize product covering products like vRealize Automation (vRA), v Realize Operations (vRO), vRealize Orchestrator, Nutanix, vRealize Log Insight, vSphere, and vCenter.

Hands on experience in planning, designing and developing

Hands on experience with HP Proliant Servers, IBM Blade HS20P Servers / and Dell Power Edge rack mount servers.

Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, with different types of port groups. Good understanding of Cisco USC manager.

Good understanding about SAN,iSCSI, NAS Configuration and Implementation including attached storages, SAN Switches, HBA,

VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS.

Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment,

Extensive experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion technology.

Strong experience in configuring HA and DRS clusters, using EVC on as needed basis.

Configured, Monitored and Maintained Virtual server farms consisting VMWARE, and Hyper V

Experience in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vConverter.

Good expertise in Patch Management of ESX Hosts using VMware Update Manager.

Experience with DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizations and Implementations.

Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, and Exchange Mail Server.

Experience with HP Blade System C-class enclosure (7000) and IBM iSeries chassis using Onboard Administrator and virtual Connect.

Planning, deploying, and managing System Center Configuration Manager 2007/2012 (SCCM) and SCOM.

Experience in Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2 and 2012 server architecture and administration.

Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Visio and Outlook.

Excellent leadership qualities, good communication skills and interpersonal skills.

Technical Skills:

VMware

VMwarevSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5, 6.0, vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5, 6.0, ESX 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5, 6.0, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Workstation,

Windows Administration

Configuration of DHCP and DNS, installation and configuration of VPN client, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 - installation and configuration, installation and configuration of Active Directory creating users and groups, setting user access controls, domains creation and setup.

Networking

OSI Reference Model, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnetting, Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, switches, routing concepts, virtual network concepts including vSwitches, VLANs, dvSwitch, TCP/IP stack for virtualization, configuration of printers and, scanners.

Hardware

Cisco UCS,HP ProLiant DL380 G5/G6 Intel Xeon, HP EVA, HP ProLiant DL385 G6/G7 AMD Opteron, Dell PowerEdge 2850, 2950, R710, HP BL 460c G5/G6 blade servers, C7000 HP Chassis. NetApp V6000 Series.

Operating Systems:

Windows Server OS – 2003/2008/2008R2/2012, Windows 7/XP/NT.

Education: BE CS. Andhra University 2009.

Professional Experience:

Green Dot Corporation, Pasadena CA.

Systems Administrator/ Data Center Engineer (contract),

April 2017 - till date.

Deployed new production systems in the Windows/Intel environment, including the following technologies: Windows Server 2008/2012, active directory, VMware Vsphere 6.0and Vcenter Server 6.0, and Esxi.

Worked on several VMware technologies including vmotion, DRS, storage DRS, VLANs, adding RDM disks and .vmdk files.

Troubleshooted Cisco UCS critical and major faults like memory DIMM module errors and network card errors.

Upgraded the Cisco UCS firmware in 3 UCS domains from firmware version 2.2 to firmware version 3.1.

Coordinated the downtimes while upgrading the firmware of Cisco UCS blade servers.

Used vmotion and DRS to migrate the virtual machines to other hosts before beginning the migration before keeping the hosts in maintenance mode.

Migrated the HPE proliant blade servers without any downtime to different bays in the same chassis and to the different chassis. Created new service profiles for the blade servers and assigned the service profiles after moving the blades to different bays in the HPE chassis.

Deploying, managing, and troubleshooting VMware vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestration, VRealize IaaS (Infrastructure as a service), vRealize DEM (Distribution Execution Manager), and vRealize SSO servers (single sign on) across multiple data centers.

Deployed clustered virtual machines/ servers in VMware using windows clustering and RDM disks for clustering SQL database servers. Also deployed Availability Groups in windows clustering.

Provided the required daily support, maintenance, light rack and stack of equipment in data centers, asset management equipment.

SCADA Application Installing and Serving to workstation by using Hamming bird and Exceed Tool.

Operational technology security assessments, and preparation of firewall rule (management of change) requests for moving systems into production

Troubleshooting server hardware, server OS and application issues.

Created new services profiles in HP ILO and assigned them to the blade servers.

Coordinated with the Cisco support for replacement of failed DIMMs, mother board and blade servers.

Decommissioned virtual machines from the Vcenter, removed the DNS records, deleted them from WSUS and from Solar winds IPAM.

The Team Companies,Burbank CA.

Systems Administrator

November 2016 - March 2017

Administered the virtual infrastructure in the data center using vmware vshpere 5.5. Provided windows server 2008/2012 support. Managed the change control procedures.

Supported windows and vmware engineering operations, coordinated with the software license vendors and renewed the licenses of vmware and Microsoft products.

Installed the Esxi 5.5 hypervisor on Dell servers and added those new hosts to the existing Vcenter 5.5.

Designed the data center rack elevations, racked and stacked new server, network and storage equipment.

Gathered the requirements from the management and, implemented windows and vmware solutions based on the requirements.

Implemented vmware SRM for disaster recovery and windows SCCM for desktop deployment and patch management.

Commissioned new windows virtual servers in vmware vsphere 5.5 environment with windows 2008/2012 operating systems and configured their roles and features. Deployed new virtual machines from templates. Configured the network adapter settings for the newly commissioned windows servers.

Utilizing vRealize Operations Manager reports and Fabric Group consumption to review capacity planning with management and identity capacity constraints.

Deployed new linux virtual machines to install the applications from vendors.

Worked on vmotion, HA, DRS and other vmware technologies.

Cloned the virtual machines, took the snapshots whenever required.

Configured VEEAM backup for the virtual machines. Update VEEAM to the latest version.

Administered the Hyper-V virtual infrastructure. Deployed new machines, extended hard disks, configured the network and provided support for the Hyper-V environment.

Worked as an active directory domain administrator for windows servers 2008/2012. Worked on DNS, MS terminal and DHCP servers in the active directory.

Implemented SCCM for desktop image deployment.

Installed several applications from different vendors on the newly commissioned windows servers.

Maintained an inventory of all the hardware and virtual machines in the data center.

Administered Dell compellent and Equilogic SAN storage systems using Dell Enterprise storage manager.

Designed the storage volume replication for SAN to SAN replications from primary to DR datacenter.

Coordinated with Dell frequently and was the primary contact for all communications from them.

Upgraded the memory capacity of the Dell ESXI hosts.

Created Vswitches for DMZ access of the windows servers and migrated the servers to the DMZ network.

Installed ESXI hypervisor on dell hardware.

Monitored the network and servers using Solar Winds.

Administered, managed and installed Symantec end point protection on all the windows assets in the infrastructure.

HPE, Client- Cerner Corporation

Kansas City, Kansas. June 2016 - September 2016

Worked on a DOD data center commissioning project for HPE's client Cerner Corporation.

Racked and stacked the network, storage and compute hardware equipment.

Built virtual machines using vmware vsphere 5.5 from templates and clones. Configured the network, storage and VCPU settings for the virtual machines.

Installed VMware tools on all the newly deployed virtual machines.

Configured high availability (HA) and DRS for the newly deployed virtual machines.

Applied the updates to the VMware hosts in the Vcenter.

Coordinated with the network and the storage team for resource allocations of SAN storage and VLAN configurations.

Updated management regarding the progress of the data center commission every day.

Scheduled and updated the servers during the downtime after application deployement.

Handled issues in the Jira ticket system. Solved and updated the tickets.

Deployed windows server 2012 operating system on the commissioned servers.

Managing and troubleshoot current Scada and Raid server.

Configured the roles and features of the newly deployed windows servers. Configured the domain settings, DNS and other network configurations on the windows 2012 servers.

OPWDD, State of New York, ITS

Schenectady, NY. March 2015 – April 2016

Daily administration of a large-scale Windows enterprise environment leveraging a multitude of Microsoft Architecture based technologies including Active Directory/DNS, group policies and Windows server 2008/2012,

Administered Windows Server 2008/2012 Active Directory infrastructure including Group Policy, creation and deletion of user accounts, managing access controls, and domain structure configuration.

Daily administration of large-scale VMWare and Hyper-V environments. Maintained technical documentation.

Implementing, and maintaining Systems Center Operations Management (SCOM) to monitor servers across multiple AD Forests and used powershell scripting.

Monitored the health of the servers in the datacenter using HP ILO. Raised tickets for the hardware issues with the vendor (HP) and coordinated with their onsite technician to resolve the hardware issues.

Created virtual machine snapshots using VMwarevSphere 5.0.

Created new virtual machines and deployed windows server 2008 operating system. Configured the memory of the virtual machines, added hard disks and VNIC to the virtual machines.

Installed and updated VMware tools, configured the network settings (VNIC) and added windows roles & features to the newly built servers.

Scheduled reboot tasks of the virtual machines. Extended the hard disks of the virtual machines

Created new service accounts and user accounts in Windows Active Directory.

Created Citrix virtual desktops for users in other clusters.

Configured and supported VDI environment.

Installed manage and supported VMware Vrealize and VMware Orchestrator for IT server deployment Automation.

BuiltCitrix XenApp servers and published applications for the users. Applied citrix roll up RU05 for citrix XenApp 6.5.

Applied windows updates to the servers using System Center configuration Management(SCCM) client.

EMC, client- Siemens

Malvern, PA October 2014 – January 2015.

Windows and VMware Engineer

Migrated physical SQL database servers to the virtual environment using double take and VMware vsphere 5.5.

Provided remote phone support and onsite support for the datacenter migration from physical environment to virtual environment.

Conducted tests to determine the best strategy and methodology for the migration process to occur on windows enterprise 2003/2008 servers.

Maintained an updated version of issues log for the test results and test process.

Virtualized physical windows servers using VMware converter and double-take.

Added additional hard disks using vsphere 5.5 and reconfigured the network settings of the target virtual machines.

Coordinated server downtimes and application downtimes with the customers and other teams during migrations.

Documented the migration process in detail and initiated the migration tasks.

Monitored the migration activity during nights and provided onsite and remote phone support to the migration team. Updated management about the progress of migration.

Installed VMware tools on the virtual machines after the P2V migration.

Added the virtual network adapters (VNICs), updated the MAC address using vshpere 5.5.

Configured the IPV4 properties, IP settings, DNS configuration and WINS configuration.

Configured VMDKs and added them to the virtual machines after the migration.

Created new hard disks for the vms using vsphere 5.5 and brought them online using the windows disk management and veritas storage manager.

Uninstalled the hardware specific drivers from the virtual machines after the P2V migration.

Reconfigured the vCPU and the Memory setting of the virtual machines after the P2V migration.

Client: IBM, Raleigh/RTP, NC May 13- September 14

Windows and VMware administrator

Responsibilities:

Advanced troubleshooting of network and server environments across multiple global locations. On site and remote phone support to desktop users. Remote team member and desktop lifecycle management.

Managed, maintained, administered, troubleshooted high end network devices such as cisco routers, switches and ASA firewalls.

Decommissioned physical servers and network switches and routers in the data center.

Worked with Microsoft server technologies, such as Microsoft windows server 2003/2008, Exchange 2003/2007. Installed windows server 2003/2008 operating systems in an enterprise environment.

Updated the windows servers using WSUS. Deployed Symantec Endpoint Protection antivirus.

Creating and updated network shares, adding permissions software and groups for users through Active Directory. Worked on distributed file systems and print services setup and support.

Administered Windows Server 2008/2012 Active Directory including Group Policy,LDAP, creation and deletion of user accounts, managing access controls, and domain structure configuration.

Migrated several LINUX and windows servers to a different network, changed their NICs and reconfigured their network adapters using vmware vshpere.

Deployed patches on windows systems and installed latest version of Java on windows and Linux systems.

Created Virtual Machines using Vmware vshpere, installed and updating VMware tools, Configured and managed Virtual network, Virtual disk and memory expansion to the VMs, Vmotion. Also configured high availability (HA) and distributed resource scheduling (DRS). Deployed VDI virtual desktops and servers.

Creating Templates, deploying a virtual machine from template.

Implemented highly available virtual environments using VMware\ESXI Infrastructure.

Installed system wide software and allocated mass storage space. Deployed Symantec Endpoint Protection on the assets across multiple global locations.

Remediated windows servers according to the IBM ITSAS security standards. Operating system reconfiguration. Applied patches to the operating system and did operating system health checks.

Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, SNMP and DHCP.

Configured and created new VMs and Installed Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Server operating system and VMware Tools on the VMs.

Participated in Weekly Status meetings and created weekly status reports with the current status, Incident Reports and Change Management for managing the applications.

Made self fully available through a critical period. Kept management up-to-date about progress of projects and problems/issue resolving activities.

Client: City of Houston, Houston,TX

Role: Windows and Vmware Administrator March 12–Apr 13

Responsibilities:

Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi servers on Symantec NetBackup, HP, DELL and Installation of vCenter Server, vCenter Components and upgrading VMware Tools.

Experience with Cisco UCS server blades with VMware ESX deployments on Cisco UCS.

Creating resource pools and adding the VM’s into the pools.

Updated Firmware and Proliant Support Pack for Windows 2000/2003 servers.

Having good experience with an Enterprise Backup Environment.

Used tools such as VMware Converter, PlateSpin Power Convert, and Veeam FastSCP to work on ESX Environment for the P2V conversions.

Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, SNMP), Group Policy and Profile Management.

Created Snapshots according to user’s requirement.

Administered Microsoft Cluster Server with SQL server 2008/2005.

Maintained Web Servers by installing IIS 6 and 7, FTP Sites and creating Virtual Directories in IIS6 and IIS7.

Involved in Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2008/2003 Servers, and VMware ESXi Servers 3.0/3.5/4.0/5.0

Building ESXi /4.0/5.0 Host and maintain those ESXi servers through VI Client.

Taking care of capacity planning for new clusters, ESXi and VM storage issues.

Configured HA, DRS clusters, FT for important VM’s.

Analyzing and implementing OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool.

Implemented Windows 2003 WSUS Server for client and server patches using GPO, Blades/Chassis, virtual deployments, SAN attached storage/BFS.

Designed and built an HP Blade Center using IBM SAN storage with VMWare ESX, deploying hosts using Boot from SAN / SAN attached storage assigned to given builds.

Involved in configuring the new HP Servers with Windows 2008/2003/2000 by using Capacity planner and VMware guided consolidation for gathering the Physical machines CPU and Memory usage metrics.

P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise 3, 4 and 5.

P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.

Presenting FC SAN LUN’s, RDM’s iSCSI LUN’s and NFS mounts.

Created vSwitches and different ports groups for different purposes.

Taking care of NIC teaming at ESXi server level for redundancy.

Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter update manager.

VMotion according to the requirement.

Storage vMotion according to the requirement.

Worked on Ticket process in receiving Incident tickets in Remedy Tool in 24x7 environments.

Creating technical notes and user guides for new software and database for end users.

Performed technical expertise for windows systems environments on issues related to servers, local services, data centers, and server configuration.

Performed installation and management of NAS and SAN storage solutions.

Maintained records for event, audit and application logs.

Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management.

Creating User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory.

Installed and Configured Windows 2008/2003 Servers.

Monitor all windows backup and perform fine-tuning every 15 days.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.1/5.0/4.0, VSphere 4.0,5.0 Vcenter4.0 .Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, HP Proliant DL and Blade Servers.

Metlife, New York NY

Widows and Vmware Administrator Jan 11 - Feb 12

Responsibilities:

•Assisted with all related VMware issues including the regional ESXi servers refresh.

•Responsible for updating and patching all ESXi servers.

•Responsible for maintaining Virtual Center for the Test and Development environments.

•Administered and maintained the vSphere V5.0 infrastructure installed on Hitachi servers.

•Developed the VMware V5.0 Standard Operating Procedures document, which included the security hoarding process.

•Modified the Standard Operating Procedures document for the installation and configuration of ESXi server V.5.0.

•Maintained, implemented and optimized operating systems/software utilizing VMware virtualization technologies for vSphere 4.0 including configuration of VMware HA and DRS.

•Administered a corporate VMware ESXi Server infrastructure with capacity for 100 servers across 3 separate environments.

•Configured, Monitored and Maintained Virtual server farms consisting VMWARE and Hyper V.

•Defined and documented Backup & Recovery plans, as well as robust disaster recovery strategies.

•Assisted with VMware planning, consolidation and upgrades.

•Performed cost analysis supporting consolidation of physical servers into VMware.

•Responsible for the planning, testing and implementation of server software patches and upgrades as scheduled and backing up data using commvault.

•Monitored and maintained all global systems operating in the Data Center, encompassing Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008, VMware, and Active Directory. Installed windows operating system remotely over the network using WDS on Hitachi servers.

•Administering DHCP Server creation of reservation and under reservation options, configuring of router IP address.

•Monitoring and basic troubleshooting of storage devices.

•Created, developed, and tested preventative procedures and software to improve efficiency of overall Data Center operations.

•Collaborated with multiple support teams to resolve critical time-sensitive issues, and responded to system emergencies.

•Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in the initial VMware farm design to ensure successful deployment.

•Performed troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms.

•Performed server incident root cause, service, and crash dump analysis.

Environment:VMWare ESX Server 3.5/4.0, vCenter 2.5/4.0, vSphere 4.0,VI 3.5, Active Directory, Windows 2003/2008, SAN, Fiber, HyperV.

Client: Redington, India

Windows Server Support Mar 10- Dec10

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibility was to maintain availability of the corporate LAN consisting of servers, client workstations, laptops, printers.

Maintained a Windows 2000 and NT LAN of 5 servers, 100+ clients and 100+ users

Implemented and maintained corporate Intranet sites.

Implemented, administered and monitored NAT server/firewall providing Internet access to client computers through the corporate LAN.

Administered and maintained Microsoft Exchange Server and mailboxes.

Provided end user application software and operating system software support.

Day to day Backup of file server with windows backup tool.

Maintenance Lotus Domino server R5 installation, configuring Lotus notes and troubleshooting.

Installation, Configure and Maintenance of F&O Application Applications and other Stock Exchange related Applications.

Software Deployment from server to several clients.

Installation and Configuring WINS, DNS, DHCP.

Maintaining Branded clients IBM, Compaq, and HP.

Installation of SQL 2000 and creating databases and roles and taking backup

Maintenance of Antivirus corporate edition.

Installation and configuration of Network printers such as HP LaserJet 2200DN, 4050N

Installation and configuring HP Branded systems preloaded software.

Software Installations and Printers.

Installation and configuring HP, Compaq Laptops preloaded software.

Trouble shooting HP desktops and laptops.

McAfee Antivirus and updating Antivirus Patches

Environment: WindowsXP/VISTA/2000, VMWARE ESX Server, Windows Active Directory, Cisco Network

Indoteq Office Automation Systems, (India) May 09- Feb 10

System Administrator

Responsibilities

Responding to the system generated action items and resolve them depending on the contract level of the customer.

Co-coordinating with the customers vendors for any system up gradation and giving the exact procedure to follow up.

Providing the monthly Management reports/statistics.

Scheduling the daily/weekly/monthly backups.

Patching up the system to the latest version as per the recommendations.

Monitor the health of the servers, Operating system, database and the network.

Maintenance of Hard disks (Formatting and Setup, Repair from crashes)

Create and maintain user accounts administering file systems and recognizing file access problems.

Granting the required access codes to various groups Performance tuning, Maintaining disks through Veritas Volume Manager, Crontab,Growing/shrinking VxFS file systems.

Taking disks out of VxVM, Veritas Cluster support.

Performing patches research, patches installation and packages installation on Sun Solaris

Fine tuning of servers and configuring networks for optimum performance

Planning and implementing system upgrades including hardware, operating system and periodical patch upgrades

Setting up RAID levels on Sun Storage Equipments using Veritas Volume Manager and Solstice Disksuite on new/existing production/development systems for reliability, fault tolerance, and availability

Adding/expanding new storage to existing/new systems using Veritas Volume Manager

Writing shell scripts as per requirements

Creating, Scheduling and Managing cron jobs

Handling Support cases based on priority and SLA

Environment: Sun Solaris 8, Sun Enterprise servers E4500, E3500, SunFire V480, sun Ultra Sparc 5/10, Sun Blade servers, Oracle 8i/9i, NFS, BMC patrol and HP OpenView.

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