Manager Windows Server

Amarnath Taduvai

Mobile: 848-***-****

Email: ***************@*****.***

Skype ID: Amarnathtaduvai

Professional Summary:

A technocrat with more than 8+ years of hands-on experience in VMware virtualization & Microsoft technologies. I bring an innovative and pragmatic approach to analyzing complex business needs, enabling me to conceptualize, design and implement cutting edge solutions based on the latest virtualization, cloud technologies. My community-focused involvement allows me to effectively share my passion for virtualization and cloud technologies.

●Quick study, able to understand, assimilates and conveys new and evolving technologies.

●Knowledge on HP Converged Infrastructure (Ex: HC 200& 250).

●Knowledge on Cisco UCS blade chassis.

●High level of skill in planning, coordinating, and motivating people successfully to complete clearly defined objectives; skilled in staff selection, supervision, training, budgeting and inter-departmental liaison.

Seasoned systems professional, MCSE, experienced in project management, advanced applications, system enhancements, troubleshooting, and OS migrations.

Extensive experience in working with ESXI servers –Installation, configuration, management and maintenance of virtual Machines and virtual servers.

Good knowledge on IBM and HP hardware, like analyzing the DSA and IML logs, configuring HP Array and extending the drive size on local drives.

Providing Operating System support to more than 5500 servers that include both

Physical servers and virtual servers.

Implemented New monitoring tool “Infoblox” (DNS and DHCP migrated).

Implemented new Antivirus “Cylance” for clients and servers.

Configuring and troubleshooting NIC teaming on HP and IBM hardware machines.

Managing Backups using VERITAS Backup Tool

Responsible for Quota management and File Screening on the File Servers.

Imaging the servers with required applications like SQL, IIS.

Building up IBM and HP severs and doing server refreshes activity like Upgrading

OS and hardware.

Good knowledge on Operating system level troubleshooting like performance

and OS corrupted issues.

Upgrading PSP (ProLiant support pack) versions on HP ProLiant servers and

Upgrading HBA firmware and drivers.

Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts.

Knowledge on Power shell scripting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems

Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2/2012 & Red hat Linux.

Servers

VMware ESX 6.0, vCloud, Windows server 2003,2008,2012 work station, SQL2012 & 2014.

Hardware

Dell Power Edge Servers, HP ProLiant Servers, Hp Storage Converged HC200 & 250, IBM Xseries.

Security & Patch tools

WSUS, SCCM, SCOM, CMDB, SIEM, IPAM, SOTA, INTIGO, Big fix &Update Manger.

Storage

VERITAS storage Foundation (VSF),IBM XIV, EMC Vplex, fiber channel, ISCSI & NFS.

Monitoring

vRelease operations (vCops), 1E Night watchmen, TAM Manager, Tivoli endpoint manager, HP open view, Solar winds, Infoblox &Cylance

Ticketing Tools

Service Manager, HP SIM, BMC Remedy.

Technical Certifications:

●VCP 6.0(VMware Certified Professional)

●VCA Cloud.

●MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) in Windows 2008.

●MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) in Windows 2012.

●ITIL v3 2011 Foundation.

Professional Experience

April 2016 – present

Client : County of Santa Clara/ San Jose

Role : VMware and windows Consultant

About the project:

As a member of County of Santa Clara, provide support to the ESXI & windows servers with understanding the business needs and provide the technical solutions to the upcoming BU Initiatives.

Responsibilities:

Streamlined and stable the Virtualization environment, upgraded ESXI servers, upgraded vSphere to 5.0, migrated physical Servers to virtual.

Working on P2V migration (Hyper-v to VMware ).

Working on physical and virtual Builds, Installation of software’s and required patches as per build checklist.

●Updated the Patches for ESXI Servers using VMware Update Manager and updating Firmware Drivers on the all hosts.

●Upgraded VMTOOLS, Hardware version, HDD upgrade, To improve the VM Guest Machines performance,

●During the streamline process to improve the performance of Host and Guest Machines implemented HA, DRS on cluster level.

Engaged hardware and software vendors to assist in improvement of current VMware environment and research and evaluation of the latest technologies.

Knowledge on Veeam Backup.

Worked on Decommission of EOD physical server.

Installing new Physical servers in Data center and configuring them based on requirements.

Implemented New monitoring tool “Infoblox” (DNS and DHCP migrated).

Implemented new Antivirus “Cylance” for clients and servers.

Actively partispiated in SCCM server and client upgrade, Creating hardware and software packaging for SCCM servers and closing working with client issues.

Working on 1E Night watchmen tool uupgrade on server and client.

Working on 1E night watchmen wakeup tool upgrade on server and client

Working on 1E night watchmen shutdown tool upgrade on server and client

Working on Physical datacenter x86 / x64Intel, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals

Tools used in Environment:

Operating Systems

Windows Server 2008/2008R2/2012.

Servers

Windows server 2008 & 2012, VMware ESX 5.0

Hardware

Dell Power edge R710 & 2950, IBM servers.

Security & Patch tools

Infoblox, WSUS, SCCM, SCOM, CMDB, &Update Manger, 1E Night watchmen tool & Cylance.

Ticketing Tools

BMC Remedy and CA Access control

July 2015 – Jan 2016

Client : CIO Hosting /Accenture Chicago

Role : VMware and windows Consultant

About the project:

As a member of CIO Team, provide support to the Accenture BU Server & Storage Infrastructure along with understanding the business needs and provide the technical solutions to the upcoming BU Initiatives.

Responsibilities:

To streamline and stable the Virtualization environment, upgraded ESXI from 5.1 to 5.1u1, u1 to u2, u2 to u3, u3 to 5.5 upgrade vSphere from 5.5 to 6.0, migrated physical Servers to virtual.

Actively partispiated in SQL2012 to SQL2014 migration.

Worked on Physical datacenter x86 / x64Intel, HP, & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.

●Updated the Patches for ESXI Servers using VMware Update Manager and updating Firmware Drivers on the all hosts.

● To improve the VM Guest Machines performance, upgraded VMTOOLS, Hardware version, HDD upgrade.

●During the streamline process to improve the performance of Host and Guest Machines implemented HA, DRS on cluster level.

●Knowledge on SCCM installation and bug fixing.

Hands on experience on physical and virtual Builds, Installation of software’s and required patches as per build checklist.

By performing RCA (Root Cause Analysis) to fix performance issues of physical and virtual servers, Coordinate/Facilitate all planned and unplanned power outages for all environments.

Installing new Physical servers in Data center and configuring them based on requirements.

Engage hardware and software vendors to assist in improvement of current VMware environment and research and evaluation of the latest technologies.

Tools used in Environment:

Operating Systems

Windows Server 2008/2008R2/2012.

Servers

Windows server 2008 & 2012, VMware ESX 6.0, SQL2012 & 2014.

Hardware

Dell Power edge R710 & 815.

Security & Patch tools

WSUS,SCCM,SCOM,CMDB,SIEM,IPAM,SOTA,INTIGO&Update Manger

Ticketing Tools

BMC Remedy.

April 2012 – July 2015

Client : Disney /HCL America

Role : VMware and windows L2 & L3

About the project:

We have to manage the Disney IT infrastructure which includes Virtual and Physical environment, all together we should have to support around 5500 servers, the entire servers are divided into 5-segments. We are providing end-to-end of Virtual and Physical Infra support, as well Operating system support.

Responsibilities:

Provided L3 and L2 support to team to diagnose issues which were related to VMware and windows.

Implementing and Managing VMWare environment which include Configuration, Deploy, and management of VMware vSphere, which consists of VMware ESXi and vCenter Server, vCenter appliance

Datacenter/Server consolidation and virtualization using VMware technologies experience with continuity of operations for large-scale virtualized data centers, strong knowledge of VMware

Deploying Virtual Machines (VM’s) through Templates, Converting P2V & V2V using VMware converter.

Building new ESXi Servers, Configuring vSphere DRS, HA, VMWare Cluster, Data Storage LUN’s, Capacity Planner Service

Resource Management- Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion, and migrations between ESXI Servers.

ESXI and VMware vSphere 4, vSphere 5 features including VMotion, HA, Virtual SMP, Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS).

Update the Patches for ESXI Servers using VMware Update Manager and updating Firmware Drivers on the all hosts.

Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware standalone Converter

●Installation, configuration, up gradation, and troubleshooting of VSF (VERITAS Storage Foundation for windows on EMC, IBMXIV).

●Administering and Maintaining Virtual Windows Servers 2003, 2008 total of around 3500 servers, which also involved migrating virtual machines with VM & Storage vMotion.

●Good knowledge on IBM server raid manager and HP array controller.

● Good knowledge on installing and configuring VERITAS storage foundation 5.1 SP2 ( creating

●Disk groups, expanding the volumes and creating VERITAS cluster groups) and upgrading VSF

●from 5.1 sp2 to 6.0.

●Storage migration performed on windows servers from IBM XIV to EMC VPLEX

●Managed Active Directory (AD) Organizational Units (OU), Group Policy Objects (GPO) users and groups.

●Organized existing AD objects to assist with day to day administration (Organizational Units (OU), groups, departments, users, servers, PCs, laptops, printers etc.)

●Up gradation of Firmware and drivers on the all the HP and IBM servers

●RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for the ESXI server issues and windows OS Performance.

●Participated in Project Management in several key projects which included the migration and consolidation of several data centers, migration planning for future system consolidation.

●Knowledge on Exchange server 2003 and office365.

●Performing the Lead Roles during Technical and Non-Technical Bridge calls and manage the offshore Team.

●Engage hardware and software vendors to assist in improvement of current VMware environment and research and evaluation of the latest technologies.

Tools used in Environment:

Operating Systems

Windows Server 2003,2008/2008R2/2012 & Redhat Linux

Servers

Windows server 2008 & 2012, VMware ESX 5.0,5.5& SQL2012

Hardware

IBM X3650 series, HP DL380, C7000

Security Patch tools

WSUS, Bigfix &Update Manger

Ticketing Tools

Service Manager, HP SIM & BMC Remedy

Storage

VERITAS storage Foundation (VSF), IBM XIV, EMC Vplex, fiber channel, ISCSI & NFS.

Monitoring

vRelease operations (vCops), TAM Manager, Tivoli endpoint manager, HP open view.

July 2008 – April 2012

Client : Narayana Educational society

Role : System Administrator

Organization : Narayana Educational society

About the project:

Narayana is Asia’s largest educational company

Responisblities:

Installing, configuring & managing VMware ESX 3.5

Installing, configuring & managing Virtual Center 2.5 & License Server.

Experience on configuring data store to ESX server using SCSI, iSCSI or LUN.

Configuring Hardware-Initiated iSCSI Storage, and Software-Initiated iSCSI Storage.

Configuring and managing HA Settings and Customizing HA for Virtual Machines.

Configuring DRS in a Cluster. And the DRS Automation Level Using DRS Affinity Rules.

Creating Cluster, resources pool, Template & Clone in ESX 3.5.

Configuration and managing of Permissions in VCenter Server.

Patch Management in ESX Server through UPDATE MANAGER.

Accessing the ESX Server using Putty.

Configuring Active Directory Settings,

Monitoring Server Health Status of the CPU processors, Performances of Physical & VM’s

Importing and Exporting VMWARE Appliance Software’s (Ex: VDM,Vmware Converter)

Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs.

Creating a backup job and also took backup of data centre on daily, weekly and monthly basis.

Tools used in Environment:

Operating Systems

Windows Server 2003,2003R2

Servers

Windows server 2003,2003r2 & VMware ESX 3.5

Security & Patch tools

WSUS &Update Manger

Ticketing Tools

BMC Remedy.

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