Sandeep Baroth

Senior Systems and Virtualization Engineer

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeep-baroth-b70150150/

Email: adcg2x@r.postjobfree.com

Contact : 870-***-****

Education Details:

Master’s in engineering management (2014 -2015), From Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN, USA.

Bachelor’s in computer science and Engineering (2006 -2010), From JNTU, Hyderabad, India.

Technical Summary:

VMware Technology Professional around 8 years of I.T experience. Effectively exhibited solid explanatory, investigating and Interpersonal aptitude with a Client centered methodology.

•Experience and skills in System Administration primarily Windows Server Administration and VMware vSphere.

•Experience in Building Hyper V and Windows VMs on Bare metal instance in Oracle cloud OCI.

•Experience in managing Hyper V and Windows VMs through Oracle cloud console.

•Experience in working VMware vRealize Automation(vRO) and VMware vRealize Orchestrator.

•Experience on working configuration of blueprints and reservations in vRA as well as maintenance, enhancements and creations of new workflows in vRO.

•Experience working on public Cloud and Hybrid cloud integration with vRA and vRO.

•Experience working on Converged and Hyper-Converged infrastructure.

•Experience in working with ESX servers – Installation, configuration, management and maintenance.

•Experience in administrating and managing a 4000 node VMware ESX environment with multiple clusters.

•Experience on working on BladeLogic for patching windows servers.

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

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

•Hands on experience with HP ProLiant Servers and Dell Power Edge rack mount servers.

•Good understanding on storage types including iSCSI, NAS and SAN, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS.

• Working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology to make live migrations.

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

•Experience in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vConverter.

•Experience in host-based migrations using Robocopy, rsync, LVM and DTA migration tool.

•Extensive experience in upgrading ESX hosts and working with VMware modules – VI Client, vCentre Update Manager, vCentre Converter, Host profiles, Administrating VMs, vStandard switches, vDistributed switch, recovery modules, resource and performance monitoring.

•Extensive experience in building windows-based servers (NT/2000/2003/2008) and managing entire Active Directory (Users, groups, FSMO roles, replication), LDAP services.

•Extensive experience in windows server module IIS, Group policies, Security policies, DNS, DHCP, Backups and Restores, Failover Clustering, WSUS, Multiple Doman Trusting and many other windows products.

•Extensive experience in all forms of backup and recovery modules in windows server and VMware environments.

•Good experience working on VMware Horizon 6.0 and Site Recovery Manager 5.8

•Experience in working with resource and performance monitoring tools for VMs, Servers and VMware infrastructure.

•Implementation of third-party tools across the Datacenter like Symantec Backup Exec 10, 11, vRanger pro for backups, an application related to Windows, security, mail servers, Tape drives, Monitoring, troubleshooting and Ticketing tools.

•Installations and Imaging of all windows Operating systems. Creating and packaging hotfixes, Updates & publishing through WSUS. Experience on Creation of Group Polices & Appling in the domain & Forest level. Creating Golden copies & re-using to the new domains for the same replica Server Performance issues & Tuning the Servers, Server hardening, Active participant in migrations & transitions.

Technical Skills:

VMware:

VMware vSphere 6.7, 6.5/6.0, 5.5/5.1,5.0/4.x, SRM 6.5, 6.1, and 6.0 vCenter 6.7, 6.5, and 6.0 5.5 ESXi 6.7,6.5/6.0,5.5, 5.0 vCenter Converter 5.5/5.1/4.0, vCenter Update Manager 5.5/5.1/5.0, vRops 6.5,7.0, 7.5 and 8.0.

Windows

Windows Server NT/2000/2003/2008/2012/2016- Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), DNS, DHCP, WSUS, DFS, WDS, File Service, Print Services, Webserver (IIS 7, IIS Application Server, SharePoint Services, TCP/IP Networking, FTP, SSL, Terminal Services and Clustering.

Vulnerability Management:

Worked on Qualys Gaurd/Nessus Vulnerability Management tool

Resolving non-compliance issues in windows and Linux environments.

Storage:

Fiber channels, ISCSI, NFS

Hardware

HP ProLiant DL380G4/G5/G6 Intel Xeon, HP Proliant DL580 G5, Dell PowerEdge 2850, 2950, R710.

Monitoring & Other tools used:

Worked on Monitoring tools like HP Open view, Nagios and Net IQ.

Configuration of thresholds according to the infrastructure requirements.

Familiar with Sys internal tools

Monitoring and managing the virtual infrastructure by using vROPS (VMware vRealize Operations).

Scripting:

Working experience on PowerShell & VB scripting.

Ability to create VBS, PowerShell scripts to pull the reports from Windows Env and Virtual environment.

Hardware:

Worked on Generation 5, 6, 8 & 9 HP ProLiant servers. (DL 360, 460, 580)

Configuring Hardware Raid Levels 0,1,5,10

Installing Firmware Updates, ILO updates

Configuring SAN Fabrics, Ethernet works, VLAN, Server profiles.

Rack setups, Network Cabling, KVM connectivity & Datacenter Maintenance

Updating Memory banks, Hot swaps of Power supplies, HDD etc.

Worked on DELL power Edge & IBM Servers *

Assembling/dissembling Desktop & Server Machines.

Mechanical Repairing/Service of Computers.

Process:

Working Experience on ITIL Process.

Incident, Change & Problem Management.

Finding Root cause analysis (RCA) for the incidents.

Creation of Request for Change & attending Change control board/ Change Authorization Board meetings

Good working experience on ticketing tools like BMC Remedy, Microsoft Ticketing Foundation Service, Service Now, Team Track 6.6.

Very good understanding levels of problem & Solving them in dedicated, Stress less, and in a responsible way.

OS:

Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 R2,2016 and ESXi 6.7, 6.5, 6.0 and 5.x

Professional EXPERIENCE:

Client: The TJX Companies

Location: Marlborough, MA

Role: Virtualization Engineer Feb 2020 – Till Date

Installing and configuring of VCenter, vSphere client ESXi 6.0, 6.5 hosts on HP blades and Dell servers on both protected and recovery sites which involves more than 800 nodes for multiple locations across USA and UK.

Creating server host profiles on chassis for HP blades and configuring VMNICS for Management, VMNICS for vMotion, and HBAs for Fabric connection.

Working on checking hardware and OS compatibility Firmware updates, ILO configuration, and BIOS settings.

Configuring DISK arrays and creating logical drives on both HP and Dell servers.

Configuring NTP, SNMP, and setting VMWare native multi-path.

Working on storage APIs – Array Integration VAAI to enable communication between VMWare vSphere ESXi hosts and storage devices.

ESXi coredump, Syslog and TLS 1.0 and 1.1 disabling using PowerShell scripts.

Creating host profiles for maintaining consistency across all the clusters in Datacenter.

Patch remediation by attaching latest baseline within patch guide and doing final checks

Verifying metrics and logs in vROPs, Loginsight and Splunk.

Working in Enhanced vMotion compatibility, DRS automation and vSphere availability.

Creating clusters, adding hosts, managing portgorups, VLANs, port groups, vSwitches & DvSwitches, configuring ESX hosts, Patching & updating hosts.

License managements for vSphere environment.

Creating New Windows server VMs, patching them and scanning for vulnerabilities. Remediating & making vulnerability free environment.

Creating vSphere DR environment by using SRM.

After all UAT tests are completed, will handoff to App installations, Monitoring & Backup schedules & Turnover to run team for production.

Creating Automation scripts which are required in the projects (VBscirpt, PowerShell & Batch files)

Day to Day activities involve troubleshooting, production turnover configuration checks, planning maintenance, and reporting.

Production support to all the ESX/VMware environment.

Part of rotational On Call support. Supporting all production outages which occurred.

Support of Dell, HP hardware & Datacenter support.

Patching and vulnerability management on the ESX PROD environment.

Co-ordination with Distribution centers through-out USA for the remote support.

Client: CVS HEALTH

Location: WOONSOCKET, RI

Role: Systems Administrator May 2016 – Feb 2020

Installing and configuring of VCenter, vSphere client ESXi 6.0 hosts on HP blades on both protected and recovery sites which involves more than 4000 nodes.

Creating server profiles on chassis end for HP blades using ILO – Network configuration and SAN storage configuration on blade on Switch side and VCenter (DB Switch configuration).

Building Hyper V on BareMetal in Oracle cloud OCI for setting up citrix environment for Virtual Desktop engineering.

Experience in managing Hyper V and Windows VMs through Oracle cloud console.

Installation ESXi OS on HP blades and adding server to temp cluster in VCenter after patching ESXI host with all updates using update manager and adding new ESXi host to production cluster once got all storage, Network and Domain configuration completed and then deploying virtual machines on ESXi host as per project requirements.

Experience in supporting infrastructure as code for windows with Azure and to deliver CI/CD pipeline for build artefacts using Azure.

Experience on working Azure cloud services (IaaS, PaaS/SaaS) and exceptional knowledge in Azure portal administration.

Experience on Azure AD and ADFS. Good hands on migrating P2V and V2H, lift and shift.

Experience with Microsoft Azure – Azure SQl, Storage, Web apps, and Web roles.

Experience in connecting on premises AD integration with Azure AD connect and had sound knowledge in password synchronization.

Using ticketing tools Serena business management for tracking day to day work flow and project tracking.

Working VMware vRealize Automation(vRO) and VMware vRealize Orchestrator.

Working configuration of blueprints and reservations in vRA as well as maintenance, enhancements and creations of new workflows in vRO.

Working on public Cloud and Hybrid cloud integration with vRA and vRO. Working on Converged and Hyper-Converged infrastructure.

Using HP management tools for working on Incident management tickets and creating production change tickets (RFC) in details to make any changes on production server avoid business impact.

Creating IQ_OQ which includes all steps for implementing production and non-production changes with back out plans and getting CAB approved in weekly meetings.

Working in VMware environment to implement SAN storage requests to add storage on ESXI host and add it to newly build servers and increasing storage capacity on existing prod and DEV servers.

Working on Network configuration on different domains at host level by adding VLans to Host and configuring network VLAN on servers using network adapter this includes configuring production and backup networks.

Working on multiple domains including remote sites in organization - Adding newly build servers to domain, creating DNS entries, cleaning up existing DNS entries as part of migration projects. Creating DNS alias as per project requirement.

As part of windows server 2008,2012 build – after successful deployment of template in VCentre, configuring CPU, Memory, network adapters will be in place knowledge on THICK and THIN for storage, TYPE of adapters and NIC teaming for network configuration, Page file setup for Memory.

Creating disk partitions using disk management tools and creating Mount points for SQL servers configuring RAW device mapping for SQL Custer nodes to make servers active - active and active – passive as per architectural requirement.

Working on security tasks to get server ready with 100% security compliance – hardening server with all required updates from Microsoft and ensuring the server getting updates installed in timely manner.

Working on security tools like BMC and Qualys to hardening the server, as part of security will make changes on security protocols at registry level as per the different application requirements.

Interact with internal business/departmental customers and external vendors.

Support, maintenance and operation of backup and disaster recovery services.

Support and maintenance of MS Active Directory environment including group policy, DNS, DHCP, CA, LDAP etc.

Support and maintenance of Anti-Virus/Malware services/Spam Filtering/Web filtering.

Supporting app teams with client installations like WebSphere, Oracle 11g, DB2 client, Sql server, .net 3.5,4.5 and ODBC drivers as part of application installations.

Running shell scripts to configure NET IQ monitoring on Windows servers.

Configuring TSM backup for all windows files system backup and Avamar backup on all remote site servers.

Performing daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and VM log file, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups, checking alerts and alarms

Preparing production turn over kits with all detailed descriptions before the application go live.

Working on V2V migrations using VMware converter.

Working on load balancing as part of virtual to virtual migrations.

Performing DNS changes after completion of v2v migration

Configuring storage and network before starting migration at destination. Migrating Virtual machines using VMotion and Storage VMotion.

Installation and configuration of Microsoft SQL 2008 on failover cluster. Worked on protocols - LDAP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, NTP, and FTP.

Datacenter/Server consolidation and virtualization using VMware technologies experience with continuity of operations for large-scale virtualized data centers; strong knowledge of VMware ESX and vSphere features including VMotion, HA, Virtual SMP, Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VSwitch design.

Configuring and administering Active Directory, Exchange Servers SQL server 2008 R2, IIS 6.0/7.0.

Upgrading/Migrating Windows NT domain to Windows Servers Active Directory and Windows 2008 Active Directory.

Configuring Windows Domain Controller and ADC Server. Group Policy Design & Implementation in Active Directory, Service Manager.

Experience writing powershell scripts enabling server roles and responsibilities and to automate day to day activities.

Patching production servers in down time using BMC tools in dedicated patch window from application team and validating app after pushing windows patches.

Worked on Migration Project for windows 2003 and 2008 to 2012 and 2016 (4000)

Servers include print servers, File servers, Application servers, Domain controllers requires 100% compliance get security checks cleared to get into production and decommission of all the legacy servers after successful 2008 and 2012 into production.

Testing all the changes on TEST and UAT before making any migration in production.

Creating SNAP Shots and monitoring snapshots in VCenter as part of migration plan before starting any change on production.

Domain controller

Transferring FSMO role using operation master

Changing the active directory Domain controller

Changing the schema master

Adding active directory Schema console for MMC.

Print server migration

Migrating all print queues from windows 2003 to newly built 2008 and 2012 servers trouble shooting print network issues and printer setup on server to make sure all the driver support legacy printers in 2008 and 2012 windows server.

Files server Migration

Moving all file shares from win 2003 to win 2012 using ROBOCOPY after successful migration validating file shares on 2012 closely working with business users to validate.

Application servers

Working closely with application teams to migrate application from windows 2003 to win 2008 and 2012,2016 Supporting app team for app installations.

CLIENT: CYIENT

LOCATION: NASHVILLE, TN

Role: Systems Administrator Dec 2015 – April 2016

Design and Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the US to new locations in US, which involves more than 1500 virtual machines.

Installation and configuration of vCenter server 5.5, ESXi5.5 host’s in large environment on HP BL 460C &Cisco UCS B series Blade servers on both protected and recovery sites.

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

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

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

Build, Configure and deploy VMs and templates.

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.

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

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.

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

Extensive Knowledge and experience in migration of the Virtual machines using tools like double take and VMware Converter.

Build VMware session on ESX 5.0 Server, Cloning, and Creating Templates.

Hands on Experience in migrating the VM’s from one DC to DC using EMC Recover point, which is a block level migration.

Installed and configured SRM 5.0 and 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.

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

Automated routine tasks using scripting languages such as PowerShell, Power cli.

Documented the update process from 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 5.5/5.1/5.0, ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0, Windows 2012/2008R2, SQL Server 2012/2008 R2, vCenter Operations Manager, HA, DRS, vMotion,P2V, V2V, vCenter update manager, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), Double take, VMware Converter, EMC Recover Point, DMZ Environment, Symantec NetBackup, Shell Scripting.

CLIENT: Randstad

LOCATION: Hyderabad, INDIA

Role: Windows Systems Administrator SEP 2010– May 2014

Installing and configuring ESX 4.1, and Virtual Center Server 4.1

Creating and Configuration virtual machines, installing VM Tools into VMs and allocating for end user.

creating and Deployed Templates and Snapshots for Virtual Machines.

Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter.

Performed and handled extensive P2V, V2V migrations for approximately 700 physical Windows 2000/2003 and 2008/2008R2 servers utilizing VMware Converter and SAN Replication method.

Configured and Maintained MS SQL Server 2008 R2.

Monitored ESX Server alarms generated from Virtual Center and take the necessary action.

Worked on VMware Update manager for Host upgrades and patches.

Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC teaming and VLAN.

Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion.

Build VMware session on ESX 4.0 Server, Cloning, and Creating Templates.

Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server for HA, DRS.

Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX & Virtual Machines.

Worked on backup and restore of VMware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and with other third party converters, Patch update, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.

Configured vMotion and Storage vMotion as per VMWARE’s best practices in large-scale enterprise environment.

Built and migrated physical MS Cluster 2003/2008, VERITAS cluster into virtual environment.

Configured HA and DRS, SDRS as per VMware best practices and applied on ESXi Cluster and Storage Cluster.

Managed Windows 2000/2003/2008/2008R2 and provided Active Directory support.

Design, Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of ESX servers 3.5.

Administrating VMware infrastructure 3.5 using vCenter 2.5

Installation and implementation of vCentre server to administrate the ESX servers which include licensing,

HA/DRS clustering, managing the Fiber channel/ISCSI SAN storage configuration.

Installation and configuration of VMs using templates and cloning and managed using resource pools.

Design, configuration and troubleshooting of TCP/IP and Networking.

Upgrading VMs from windows server 2003 to Windows servers 2008.

Installation and configuration of new domains including DNS, WINS, Group policies and WSUS.

Administrating production of servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain, Controllers, IIS Web Servers, Exchange Mail Servers, Patching servers, print Servers, System Management Servers (SMS), Terminal Servers, RAS and File servers on Windows 2003 and windows 2000 in the data centre/server farm.

Installing and managing network infrastructure that includes Domain Controllers, Web Servers, Mail Servers, Print Servers, Terminal Servers, RAS and File servers on Windows 2003 and windows 2000 in the data center.

Administrating DNS, DHCP and Exchange servers.

Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.

Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager and in MS Exchange Administration.

Administrating and responsible for Microsoft File and Print servers cluster on windows 2003. Managing printers’ queues, spoolers, files and folders permission, maintenance/failover of cluster when required.

Responsible for Desktop, Laptop, Network and Outlook support & troubleshooting clients

Installation and configuration of RAS-VPN connectivity in laptops.

Configured the NetBackup on servers and monitored the backups.

Provided Hardware support, troubleshooting and diagnosis.

Environment: ESX 4.0, ESXi 5.0, Virtual Center Server 4.1,vCenter 3.0/4.0,DMX4, CX4-480, FAS3020C, Brocade fabric, SAN Copy, PowerPath, SRDF, TimeFinder, SnapMirror, Snap Drive, Snap Manager, Veritas NetBackup 5.0, Emulex HBAs, Qlogic HBAs, Brocade Web tools, Windows 2003/2008 server, MS-Exchange.

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