Windows VMware administrator
Resume:
SWAPNA DUNDIGALLA
***********@*****.***
Professional summary:
•5 years of experience in handling production systems environment.
•5 years of experience in Administering and managing Physical and Virtual servers remotely.
Windows Administration:
•Validating the alerts from Windows Servers and performing appropriate corrective measures to fix the issue as per the process.
•Worked on OS upgrades and resolved issues while upgrading.
•Commission and decommissioning the servers (Physical, virtual).
•Managing the WSUS server and configuring WSUS.
•Make sure all servers are reporting to WSUS and worked on technical issue while configuring it.
•Experience in resolving the tasks which are requested by the other teams like increasing the disk.
•Evaluates Rackspace organizational processes and procedures. Recommends improvements for efficiency and effectiveness across the VMware product portfolio.
•Provides detailed technical training to Sales, Support, and Implementation teams.
•Mentors and coaches other team members on both technical and business processes relating to the VMware product lines.
•Experience in supporting and troubleshooting Wintel/Linux operating systems in a virtual environment.
•Maintained the CMDB and worked to make sure all servers are under monitoring, backup, patching, and AV is installed.
•Managing Printers and worked on configurations of printers and troubleshoot the issues on print server.
•Ensuring team schedules every month and allocating resources as per client requirement.
•Managing MIR3 schedules for the entire team.
•Worked on Vulnerably remediations.
•Working closely with application team to fix issues, changes.
•Worked on firmware upgrades for the server.
•Worked on web deletion activity to make sure users have appropriate access to environment.
•Experience with network monitoring and management
•space, increasing the memory and taking snapshot etc.
•Windows Servers CPU and memory utilization issues.
•Configuring and managing SEP on all the servers and make sure all servers are up to date with latest virus definition files.
•User network drive management.
•Managing the webservers and make sure sites are reachable.
•Managing and configuring DFS
•Managing AD and applying GPO as per the client request
•Performing QA and MBS settings whenever a new server release in production.
VMware:
•Deploying Virtual machines through Virtual Center Server as per the request.
•Installing virtual machines and performing post installation tasks like adding to the domain,
•updating patch, as per the requirement and type (Production, development, testing).
•Performing Storage vMotion of VMs to a different Datastore and vMotion.
•Troubleshooting Backup issues which are related to the virtual machines.
•Upgrading and patching ESXi hosts
•Provides detailed and relevant technology inputs to product line strategy and road maps.
•Maintains expert- level knowledge of virtualization and Cloud Computing technologies. Evaluates and researches VMware technology developments to assistance with roadmap planning and solution identification.
•Provides technical inputs and evaluations to management on resource requirements, to facilitate workload management and scheduling.
•Evaluates Rackspace organizational processes and procedures. Recommends improvements for efficiency and effectiveness across the VMware product portfolio.
•Provides detailed technical training to Sales, Support, and Implementation teams.
•Installing VCenter server and managing VCenter server.
•Worked as part of DR test.
Performance Tuning:
•Experience in managing Windows Server 2019/2016/2012/2008 for best performance.
•Good knowledge in troubleshooting.
•Experience in managing VM Ware environment.
Operating Systems: Windows server 2008/2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016 R2/Windows 2019
Educational details:
•B. Tech (ECE), JNTU, Hyderabad. 2008-2012
•M. Tech (Embedded and VLSI Design), JNTU, Hyderabad. 2013-2015
McKesson. April 2022 - Present
Windows/VMware Administrator
Responsibilities:
•Managing 12000+ Production, development, QA Windows Servers in a Production environment.
•Commission and decommissioning the servers (both physical and virtual).
•Worked on Vulnerably remediation’s.
•Develop and maintain windows platform for the server as a host, connected with multiple clients (other computers) Knowledge and experience in developing Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers on SQL Server 2005/2008/2008r2/2012.
•Involved exclusively in Disaster Recovery plans like Backup/Restore, Database Mirroring, Logs Shipping.
•Conduct installations, updates, configuration, and maintenance for SQL Server
•Experience in Security and Support of MS SQL Server 20122008,2008r2 in production, testing and development environments.
•Test and certify new versions of windows operating system providing better solution and
•integration for the application like VMware and SharePoint.
•Coordinate with a team of database developers and engineers to manage a multi-instance SQL server environment, drive improvements to database systems and processes.
•Implement regular checks for the status of servers including hardware and software.
•Maintain and support multi-site windows environment along with hardware and software configuration.
•Experience in maintaining SQL Server Security, creation of logins and users, configuring permissions and assigning roles to users.
•Management of server migration when required by the client.
•Understanding of LAN/WAN/VLAN, TCP/IP, UDP.
•Working closely with application team to fix issues, changes.
•Worked on Multifactor factor authentication process and issues.
•Worked Patching, Problem Tickets, Changes on production and non-production environment.
•Managed team schedule as per client requirement.
•Creating & providing folder permissions & CIFS shares to Users/Groups.
•Managing MIR3 schedules for the entire team.
•Troubleshooting windows OS related Issues, Configuring Windows Clusters.
•Participated in Physical Inventory to make changes on the servers accordingly.
•Fixing the issue while patching the servers through SCCM and fixing the issues in SCCM
•Worked on process improvement plans along with Incident reductions plan.
•Worked on SCOM and SCCM on small environment.
•Managed Emergency events where Microsoft releases emergency patches for the previous
•patch vulnerably.
•Implemented GPO across all the sites and worked on GPOADMIN Tool
•Worked on Cluster related Issues which are configured across locations (Geographical
•Clusters)
•Worked on Vulnerably remediation’s.
Bluefield Technologies July 2015 – July 2017
Windows/VMware Administrator
•Managing 1000+ Production, development, QA Windows Servers in a Production environment.
•Commission and decommissioning the servers (both physical and virtual).
•Working closely with application team to fix issues, changes.
•Managing the virtual machines and balancing the load over the ESX servers.
•Snapshot/clone of VM’s as per the requirement and applying affinity rules based on client requirement.
•Monitoring of VMs (CPU, Memory, Disk utilization).
•Creating & providing folder permissions & CIFS shares to Users/Groups.
•Conversion and Integration of Servers from P2V, V2V.
•Worked on migrations to cloud.
•Monitoring, Administering VMs and altering resources as per requirement. (CPU, Memory, Disk utilization).
•Troubleshooting windows OS related Issues, Configuring Windows Clusters.
•DHCP and DNS issues.
•Patching the windows servers using WSUS and BigFix.
•Fixing the issue while patching the servers
•Installing and configuration of WSUS
•Installing and managing the Symantec endpoint protection manager (SEPM)
•Managing Backup Networker client
•Worked on ESXi host upgrades and patching.
•Worked on DFS and managing DFS shares.
•Worked on AD audit plus and file audit plus tools.
•Worked on implementation of GPOs across the sites.
•Maintaining the CMDB for the client and make sure it is up to date.
•Maintaining all servers are part of patching, backup, monitoring and under AV.
•Managing the servers to be with latest virus definition files.
•Worked on troubleshooting steps to resolve production outages.
Righteous Technologies Private Limited June 2012– May 2013
Windows Administrator
Location: Hyderabad
•Managing 300+ Production, development, QA Windows Servers in a Production environment.
•Deploying and decommissioning the servers (both physical and virtual).
•Upgrading windows servers
•Troubleshooting production servers, fixing user and application issues.
•Restoring backups to point in time recovery.
•Configuring backups for production, QA and development servers.
•Working closely with application team to fix issues, changes.
•Creating & providing folder permissions & CIFS shares to Users/Groups in NetApp.
•Resource Allocation to Virtual Machines.
•Deployment of New Virtual Machines based on the project requirements.
•Monitoring of VMs (CPU, Memory, Disk utilization).
•Troubleshooting Windows OS related Issues, Configuring Windows Clusters.
•Working closely with application team to fix issues, changes.
•Worked on all Work orders, which are assigned to our team for any changes.
•Creating & providing folder permissions & CIFS shares to Users/Groups.
•Troubleshooting windows OS related Issues, Configuring Windows Clusters.
•Fixing the issue while patching the servers
•Worked on HPSA tool.
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