Manager Windows Server

SHESHU . YAMBADI

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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Over 8 Years of professional software industry experience as a Windows Systems Administration

And Virtualization Engineer using VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.

Strong knowledge on Server, Desktop and Application virtualization and worked on ESX and ESXi

6/1/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1 /4.0.

Built various Windows and Linux Physical and Virtual Servers.

Managed and configured various blades and rack servers such as Cisco UCS, HP, Dell and IBM.

Worked on Patching and hardening Windows 2012R2/2012/2008R2/2008/2003R2/2003/NT/2000

servers using Windows Update and also by using the staged patches.

Extensive Hands on Experience on vCenter server 6.1/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0 and vSphere versions

6.1/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0 for managing multiple ESX servers.

Installing and troubleshooting experience with ESX servers and ESXi servers and worked extensively

On Templates, clones and used Veeam Backup and Replication for restoring VM's.

Strong knowledge on resource management framework using Resource pools.

Experience with Microsoft Network Load Balancing and Microsoft Clustering technologies.

Experience in EMC SAN LUN creation, LUN masking, Raw Disk Mapping and Storage pools.

Implemented and managed HA and DRS clusters and Worked on VMware FT for critical VM’s.

Hands on experience on P2P, P2V, V2V Migration of Machines from one datacenter to another

Datacenter using migration tools like Plate spin, Double take and VMware Converter.

Extensively worked on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Mirage, SCCM and Patch management

and upgrades using VMware update manager.

Experience in deploying View and ThinApp 4.6/4.7 environment

Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch.

Expert knowledge on configuring hardware SAN, FC SAN, iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESXi

Hosts from vSphere client.

Configured the Windows Clustering and SQL Clustering in the VMware environment.

Worked on windows server 2012, 2008 and on Microsoft active directory.

Experience with Physical System (rack/stack, cabling, hard drive replacement, hardware upgrades

Experience in environments running multiple PODs within an enterprise setting.

Imaged laptops, tablets and desktops in a PXE boot environment utilization MDT 2013.

Knowledge in configuration and administration of System Center tools like SCCM and SCOM.

System Deployment & Imaging: PXE Boot, SCCM/SCOM Client, MDT 2013, Norton Ghost.

Implemented Office 365 to replace Exchange 2003 with a staged migration

Email management through MS Office 365 Outlook

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Electronics and Communication Engineer, JNTU, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERINCE:

CLIENT: Fujitsu, ca

ROLE: Windows/VMware Administrator JUN2015-PRESENT

Installed and Administered VM's across 4 Datacenters Running 1000’s of VM’s. Maintaining

Performance lab machines in the datacenter and Project Management experience.

Installed ESXi 6.1/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0 in large environment on Cisco UCS on both protected and recovery sites.

Installation of Vcenter server and Configuring ESXi host’s within the cluster using Vmotion and HA.

Implemented different Host profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers.

Experience of Storage Migration on 1200 VM’s (Fiber channel Upgrade from EMC DMX to VMAX).

Managed and configured Cisco UCS Rack and Blade Servers.

Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.

300+ P2V, P2P, V2V migration of windows and Linux servers and created SQL clusters on Windows 2008/2012 administration.

Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware and used Remedy Tool for ticketing (Change Management, Incident Management, and Request Management) and looking after high priority incident tickets both on virtual machine and ESX host level.

Experience in Remote deployment of Microsoft Windows 2008/2012 servers using MDT or manual installation of a server using RSA/RILO for remote connection to a server.

Extensive experience in upgrading the total virtual infrastructure from vSphere 5.5 to 6.0 on cross platform infrastructure like HP, Dell and Cisco UCS servers.

Experience working on EMC SAN storage technologies in DR site and with Cisco UCS and HP C7000 Blades for ESXi hosts.

Implementation of VMware vSphere 5.5 with Enterprise plus Features of vDistributed Switch and Host Profiles.

Upgraded VMware Infrastructure 5.0 to vSphere 5.5 along with Updating the vCenter, ESXi Hosts, vSphere client from 5.0 to 5.5 and Virtual machines tools upgrade to 8, 9 and 10.

Worked on SRM 5.0 deployment and configuration of DR site.

Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, vMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates.

Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.6 & 4.7 versions

Created a clean machine for building the applications using ThinApp and saving the package on server.

Built more than hundred application packages using ThinApp.

Capturing and Storing Application Packages and Assigning ThinApp Applications to desktops and pools.

Increase efficiency and ROI of VMware hosts by cutting down on VMs memory usage closely matching recommended memory usage by vCenter Operations Manager.

Worked closely with Network Ops team to configure Cisco Nexus 1000v VDS and VMware VDS and on network isolation of critical VMs using PVLANs.

Built and supported Microsoft clusters on VM's using RDM's and iSCSi storage.

Used Veeam Backup and Replication for recovery of VM's and data files.

Applied patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager and host update utility.

Automated routine tasks using scripting languages such as Power Shell, PowerCLi.

Installed and configured IIS and hosted multiple websites on win 2k8 servers and Managed Windows 2008Active Directory Domain Administration.

Worked on Windows Server 2008 clustering and worked on failover configuration on windows on Unscheduled and Scheduled Outages.

Troubleshooted Memory and disk related issues on windows servers and IIS related issues and Cluster related issues.

Created Protection Groups and Recovery Plans using Site Recovery Manager 5.0 and VMware best practices.

Testing of different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM’s and Expertise in providing support for Windows 2003/2008 servers and Active Directory's.

Document upgrade paths to vSphere 5.1 and 5.5 including host patches, OS level upgrades, virtual switch changes and VM version upgrades.

Provided 24/7 On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

Environment:

VMware vSphere 6.1/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0, ESXi 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0, Windows 2012/2008R2, SQL Server 2012/2008 R2, vCenter 5.5/5.1, IIS, HP Operations Manager, DRS, P2V, V2V, vCenter update manager, EMC VPLEX SRM, DMZ Environment, Veeam Backup.

CLIENT: Vanick Digital, Memphis, TN

ROLE: Senior VMware/Windows admin JAN 2014- JUN 2015

Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.

Managed Active Directory services using predefined company scripts (Creation of Accounts) and provided server and client support for all issues such as logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity and authentication issues.

Installed VMware vSphere 5.1/5.0/4.1 and created virtual machines on ESXi 5.0/4.1 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.

Teaming NIC’s using HP Teaming software for redundancy during failures.

Installed and configured vSphere ESXi 5.1 on HP blade servers HPC7000.

Migrated VMware vSphere hosts from ESX 3.5 to 4.0 and ESXi 5.1 to ESXi 5.5.

Configured VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch.

Configured VMware virtual machine port groups, console ports groups, VMkernal port groups and VLANs.

Experience in installing and configuring VMware Virtual Center servers and VMware vCenter Appliance.

Managed VMware ESXi hosts using vSphere client and Web client.

Created Virtual Machines, Cloning virtual machines, converting P2V (used standard VMware converter tool), VM-Provisioning (Linked clones, thin disks, de-duplication) taking Snapshots of virtual servers, HA, DRS, Vmotioning.

Experience on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.

Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESXi 5.0/4.1 servers for server consolidation and Worked on vCenter Server to manage all the ESX hosts in the datacenter.

Performed disk consolidations to multiple VM’s that failed snapshots which released virtual disk space from data stores.

Defining group permissions and creating local and global groups with account policies using Enterprise Administrator.

Secured, built, and maintained multiple FTP/SFTP sites using WSFTP server and IIS server.

Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.

Implementation of VMware ThinApp and V-APP package.

Performed full assignments as well as streaming the ThinApps in View environment.

Maintaining ThinApp Applications in View administrator, monitoring and troubleshooting

Administering, troubleshooting and automating vSphere ESXi using Power CLI.

Involved with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions.

Installed & configured VMware virtual center for production & DR site and monitored and setup vCOps for Virtual environments.

Perform server consolidation using VMware Converter to convert physical machines to virtual machines in a production environment.

Set up and Configured DV switch for ESXi hosts and worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESXi hosts and Virtual machines.

Virtualized Windows server using VMware Converter and Performed P2V's and V2V's using VMware convertor.

Integrated HP SAN volumes to the Virtual Infrastructure to store the Virtual Machine files.

Configuring VMware on clustered environment implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using vMotion, Storage vMotion.

Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter and restored VM's using Veeam Backup.

Virtual Machine Cloning, Templates and Snapshots and upgraded windows 2003 servers to 2008 servers, Installed Boot from san windows servers.

Configured MPIO for windows servers for redundancy and Boot for iSCSi for windows and ESXi hosts.

Experience with SQL backup and restore and SQL administration and troubleshooted IIS related issues and Cluster related issues.

Environment:

VMware vSphere 5.1/5.0/4.1, ESXi 5.1/5.0/4.1, Windows 2008/2003, SQL Server 2008 R2, vCenter 5.1/5.0/4.1, IIS, Microsoft clustering DRS, P2V, V2V,Veeam Backup, vCenter update manager, SRM,EMC VMAX.

CLIENT: Sendori, CA

ROLE: Senior VMware/Windows Admin JAN 2013- DEC 2013

Job includes installation and configuration of VMware ESXi 4.x, installation and configuration of VMware Virtual Center Server and creating Virtual Machines.

Building the infrastructure VM’s for management tools.

Assist moving two servers in P2V and V2V conversion of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server editions using enterprise VMware converter and also installed the VMware tools on that machines.

Experience in moving the servers physically.

Experience with CISCO UCS servers, EMC storage, EMC ViPR, and replication. (VMAX, VNX, Xtremlo, recover point, Appsync, vblock).

Created the security policies in Active Directory.

Create, configure and manage Resource Pools and CPU Load Balancing.

Install and configure master, media OPcenter and Client server.

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

Setup Cisco phones in preparation for building occupancy. Administered Cisco Communication manager servers and unity connection server. Setup SFTP backups or phone systems.

Experience with Cisco UCS 6296, 5048, 5108 chassis and Blades B20 M2 administration.

Worked on Cisco UCS Chassis with B200 and B200 M2 blades.

Used Cisco USC 1.3 for managing Cisco B200 M2 and B440 M2 Blade servers.

Identify subset of blade servers for small footprint.

Provided disaster recovery and backup services.

Planning and proposing a guide for upgrade to NBU 7.6 for client and obtained license and patch for client media and master server.

Bring down the entire VMware cluster and Xen environment.

Bring up the management cluster environment and the Vcenter

Create and configure Forward lookup zones and Reverse lookup zones in DNS.

Create and configure Host records, Alias records and Pointer records in DNS.

Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS.

Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines.

Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.

Using Virtual Center server for HA, DRS and vMotion.

Experienced with the VMware HA, FT, DPM and VMware DPS.

Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and Cold migration.

Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network.

Creating and maintaining the VDI pools as per requirements.

Design and implement VDI solutions based on Citrix Xendesktop/XenApp, VMware View, & Quest vWorkspace

Troubleshooting ESX & Virtual Machines.

Administer IP switch WSFTP Server for the secure transfer of data.

Experienced in installing Cisco UCS chassis with Blades and troubleshooting.

Build templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.

Work with cutting edge cloud technologies to include AWS, and Microsoft azure.

Identified opportunities to drive more value through tech strategies in targeted areas including infra-structure in AWS by designing simplified yet highly available and scalable infra-structure.

Network installations, virtualization with VMWare, Windows Server, vWorkspace application delivery, PC and Thin Client management, full range of desktop/server support.

Worked with Network Concepts such as OSI reference model, IP protocols such as TCP/IP, IP addressing, subnets, routing protocols like OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, and STP.

Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and VMs.

Interacts directly with executive level management for larger clients to include COO & CTO.

Consulted with client to ensure agreement on system principles and the nature of the information processing or computation needs a computer program is to address.

Assisted with daily administration of SQL server & Windows Server.

Migrated windows from arceserve and backup Exec to Netback up.

Utilized Backup Exec 2010R3 to backup, restore and resolve backup issues when they occurred.

Media management including coordinating restore efforts, site to site transport, long term backups and offsite storage.

Installed physical hardware including any HBA and modified any kernel parameters to tune the hardware.

Installed configured & administered Windows 2000/2003 Servers and Windows7, Vista/XP/2000 Pro work stations.

Environment:

Windows Server OS 2000/2003/2008/2012, Windows Client OS XP /Win 7, VSphere 4.1and 5.1, NetApp FC SAN/NAS storage, EMC SAN, NetApp storage,ITIL, F5, COBIT, MOF, NSX, USC 5108 Blade servers, HP ProLiant G3, G5and G7 servers, HP Blade Servers on enclosure c3000 and c7000. Citrix XenApp 5.0, Citrix Xen Desktop VDI, Remote desktop services, Microsoft SQL 2005 and 2008 servers, Microsoft Exchange server 2007 and other applications servers.

CLIENT: Sprint Nextel Corp, India

ROLE: VMware Administrator OCT 2010- DEC 2012

Installing ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and IBM hardware.

Installation of vCenter server.

Installation of vCenter components.

Installing Virtual machines and upgrading VMware Tools.

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

Deploying VM’s from templates.

Snapshots according to user’s requirement.

Configuring HA, DRS clusters.

Taking care of capacity planning for new clusters.

Configuring FT for important VM’s.

Taking caring of ESX and VM storage issues.

Coordinated with the storage team.

Capacity planning 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.

Performance monitoring using VizoncoreVfoglight and ESXTOP.

Capacity planning of the virtual environment.

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

Created Vswitches.

Creating different ports groups for different purposes.

Taking care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for NLB and redundancy.

Updating and upgrading ESX servers using Vcenter Update manager.

Vmotion according to the requirement

Storage Vmotion according to the requirement.

System Analyst for Windows2003-2008 servers.

Experience with troubleshooting DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory.

Responsible for Microsoft exchange server 2010, SQL and database server.

Provide technical supports for Microsoft outlook 2007/2010.

Maintained Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall for Exchange Server.

Experience in power shell script.

Successfully Migrated Win XP users to Windows 7 using USMT (User State Migration Tool).

Environment:

Windows 2000/2003/2008, Exchange Server 2003, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4, VMware vSphere 4, ESX 4, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN, Dell Power Edge Servers, Dell Power Vault NAS

CLIENT: Putney, India

ROLE: VMware System Administrator June 2008 – Sep 2010

Managing vCenter Server 5.0 and VMware ESXi 5.0 Servers & 500+ VMs.

Working with vCenter Server 5.0 and VMware ESXi 5.0 Servers to Install and Manage the Virtual Machines through VMware vSphere client 5.0

Configuring and managing HA, DRS, SDRS & FT for Resource load balancing & High Availability of VMs.

Working with VMware vCenter Standalone Converter 5.0 for P2V & V2V migration.

Creating & Managing vSwitches, Port Groups and Distributed vSwitch for virtual network.

Work experience with VMware Update Manager 5.0 to install patches and upgrade ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machines.

VMware Data Recovery 2.0 for backup & restore of virtual machines.

Setting up Alarms for various performance reasons like Host, VMs, Data stores status, CPU and Memory usage.

Configured & Using Kiwi Syslog server to manage ESXi logs in a Centralized location.

Creating Scheduled tasks for snapshots & backup of virtual machines in Vcenter Server.

Designing and implementing VMware backup products and Disaster recovery solutions.

Setting up Users, Groups and providing Roles to administrate the vSphere virtual infrastructure.

Working on HP Left Hand P4000 iSCSI SAN storage.

Using Veeam ONE Monitor 6.0 monitor tool to monitor the infrastructure.

Using Red mine Project Management system to Assigning, & tracking the issues.

Using Rodeo ticketing tool for helpdesk.

Environment:

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT Server, Windows XP.

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