Pradeep Kovvuru

Email : adegv5@r.postjobfree.com

Phone : 270-***-****

Education Details :

Masters in Computer Science from University of Central Missouri

Certifications :

VMware Certified Professional(VCP) 6.5 in Data Center Virtualization.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

VMware Certified Professional with 7+ years of experience in installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting VMware ESXi, Windows and Linux Servers.

Building Clustered Infrastructure which includes VSA, vSAN, Kubernetes Clusters from scratch and working on the existing one’s.

Installing, configuring and managing the infrastructure using VMware technologies viz. ESX/ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.x, vSphere 5.x/6.x VCenter Servers, VMware View 5.x/6.x VMware VCenter Converter.

Managing and Monitoring ESXi hosts, Virtual Machines and logs using vRealize Operations Manager.

Collecting Logs from VMware Skyline Server and Diagnosing them to find the root cause.

Administration in advanced features of ESX/ESXi, VMotion, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, Update Manager and concepts of SRM.

Designed and implemented vRealize Operations Manager for creating dashboards and developing policies.

Building Kubernetes clusters for both test and production environments and administering them.

Creating resource pools on existing vsan clusters for building and configuring k8s clusters.

Building Microsoft Windows 2016, 2012,2008 R2, 2008, 2003, 2000 servers at single or multi domain platforms using HP Smart Start, Array configurations, diagnosing server, Updating Firmware and PSP, Application Software under multi-platform environments, deployment & monitoring physical Servers.

Extensive experience in Microsoft Outlook/Exchange and experience supporting Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016 Active Directory (AD).

Experience in GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), IIS 5.1/6.0/7, FTP, Terminal Server, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server.

Experience remediating general windows security issues as well as containment, eradication and recovery of systems with in compromised environments.

Worked extensively on ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Templates, Cloning and snapshots.

Worked on building, managing and troubleshooting VSA 5.5 clusters and vSAN 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7 clusters.

Strong knowledge and hands on experience in data center Migration from VSA 5.5 clusters to vSAN 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7 clusters.

Implemented and managed HA, DRS clusters and Fault Tolerance on critical servers.

Knowledge on HBA, iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.

Extensive experience in working on different hardware’s, building and managing raid arrays, disk groups. .

Strong knowledge on Server, Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Application Virtualization (ThinApp).

Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel virtual networking, wireless networks & Cloud computing concepts).

Experience in configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Cisco UCS B and C series and HP BL series blades and DL series Rack mount servers. Also Managing them through Cisco UCS.

Excellent skills in patching and hardening Win 7/Win2003/2008/2012 servers using Windows Update and by using the staged patches.

Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, GPP, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.

Experience in troubleshooting windows servers when thin clients have issues connecting to Windows Servers.

Developing Scripts using PowerCli, Powershell for building, deploying, maintaining and related tasks from both scatch and modifying the existing scripts.

Administrating, creating and modifying DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation, DFS link, Web servers including record/scope creation, troubleshooting and WINS and DNS and managing user and group accounts Administration. .

Implemented Patch management solution – WSUS and SCCM for managing patches for windows servers.

Installed and configured Dell Open Manage, xClarity created Baselines for upgrading firmwares, installing patches and upgrading the Servers.

Involved in upgrading ESX 4.1, ESXi 5.0 to newer versions.

Extensive experience with Windows 2008, 2012 clustering services.

P2V and V2V conversions using VMware Converter Enterprise 3 and 4 and Plate Spin.

Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitch, dvswitch different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 5.x/6.x, Virtual Centers and VMotion.

Provided 24/7 On Call production support onsite and remotely on rotation basis and writing documents for L1’s for basic troubleshooting purpose.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware

VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/ 5.0/5.5, VMware ESXi 4.0/4.1, ESXi 5.x/6.x, Virtual Center Server 4.x/5.x/6.x, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, DPM, FT, VMotion, Storage Vmotion, vROPs, VMware Skyline, Lab Manager, VMware SRM, VMware Workstation

Virtualization Technology

Citrix Xen Desktop, VDI, Citrix Xen Server, VMware

Operating Systems

Windows 2003,2008/R2,2012/R2,2016 Servers, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7

Application servers

Microsoft Active Directory 2003/2008/2008R2, DHCP, DNS, IIS, SCCM 1610/1702, Microsoft SMS 2003, SQL Server 2000/2005, MSPatch Tool

Hardware

DELL Power Edge servers, Dell Laptops and Desktops, Dell Open Manage, HP Blade servers, HP ProLiant Gen 7/8/9 servers, HPSA, IBM M4, Lenovo M5 System X servers, xClarity, and Cisco B and C Series, Cisco UCS, HP Onboard Administrator.

Automation

Powershell, Powercli

Storage

EMC, IBM, HP SAN, Dell EqualLogic Storage, iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, VNX, VMAXe

Storage Tools

VMware VCB, Symantec NetBackup 6.0

Raid Array Tools

Stocli, Percli, Hpssacli, Megacli, Megaraid Manager

Migration Tools

VMware VCenter Convertor, Plate Spin Portability Suite

Networking

TCP/IP settings, LAN, Active Directory Manage, Standard vSwitch, Distributed vSwitch.

Backup Software’s

Symantec netbackup

Ticketing Tools

Service Now and BMC Remedy

IBM - Walmart, Bentonville, AR Jan 2016 – Present

Role : Windows and VMware Administrator

Responsible for installing, configuring, managing and troubleshooting VMware ESXi, Windows servers.

Installing, configuring, managing and troubleshooting vMware ESXi 5.x/6.x servers. Also configuring and managing windows 2003/2008/2012/2016 servers.

Building VMware Storage Appliance 5.5 and VMware virtual SAN 6.5 and 6.7 clusters with HA, DRS and FT configured.

Configuring vSAN ROBO 6.0/6.5 and vSAN 3 node Clusters. Involved in migrating VMs from failed ESXi server in the cluster to other active server using vMotion and Storage vMotion. Building templates, clones and snapshots from existing VMs.

Working on migrating physical to virtual and virtual to virtual servers. Working with L3’s and opening vMware, Microsoft cases and working with them extensively to bring the failed servers online before production getting impacted.

Implemented, and administered Windows 2016/2012/2008/2003 Servers.

Performed installation, configuration, administration and design of Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016 domains in an enterprise network environment including installation and configuration of WINS, DNS, DHCP, as well as allocated IP addressing schemes.

Administration of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and 2007 & Windows 2003 and 2008 Active Directory.

Installed Windows Updates/Patches, Software and Performed Diagnostics on servers during weekends and over nights using SCCM and MSPatch Tool.

Created trust relationships, and implemented security through Group Policy Objects.

Created a multiple location Distributed File Systems and configured the redirection of Documents and other folders.

Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP.

Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.

Implemented Microsoft Clustering for IIS Web Servers.

Responsible for troubleshooting hardware related issues.

Configuring different system hardware servers which includes blade and rack servers.

Configuring and troubleshooting HP Smart Start, various RAID array configurations, diagnosing server hardware/software and updating firmware’s when required.

Creating disk groups and configuring them in the disk management in the cluster. Recovering the failed servers using Disaster recovery from existing backups, snapshots and clones.

Includes configuring and troubleshooting networks on VMware VSA 5.5 and VMware vSAN 6.x clusters which includes networks on ESXI hosts, virtual machines and windows servers.

Patching and upgrading vCenter Servers and ESXi hosts from older versions to 6.7 using Scripts and VUM.

Creation of vSwitch, dvswitch different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 5.x/6.x, Virtual Centers for VMotion and storage vMotion.

Troubleshooting and resolving storage related issues that are generated in Production and Testing environments using vCOps.

Collecting Logs from VMware Skyline Server and Diagnosing them to find the root cause.

Deployed, managed VMware vCOps (Operations Manager), for better diagnostics, performance trending, capacity planning, right sizing and growth projection.

Deployed, managed and troubleshooting VMware vRealize Automation.

Created resource pools on vSAN clusters and deployed K8 clusters on top of them.

Used reports from vRealize Operations Manager to review capacity planning with management and identify capacity constraints.

Working on windows networking concepts includes IE. Configuration of networks, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel virtual networking, wireless networks.

Working on different protocols related to http, https, ftps, osp, DHCP, DNS along with iis an FTP servers .

Developing scripts using power shell and power CLI for automation purposes.

Troubleshooting thin clients not getting connected to windows servers.

Configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Cisco B and C series servers through Cisco UCS.

Created baselines in both VMware update manager and Dell Open Manage for patching and upgrading the servers.

Writing documents for basic troubleshooting and providing them to L1. Involving and coordinating with different teams when servers are inaccessible.

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

Verizon, Irving, TX. August 2015 - Jan 2015

Role : System Administrator

●Building, configuring, patching, upgrading and troubleshooting of physical and virtual Windows, VMware and Linux servers (rack mounts/blades, and VMs)

●Responsible for building, configuring and troubleshooting more than 1000 Virtual machines in both Windows and Linux and managing them.

●Deploying VMware security/bug fixes to ESXi hosts, Creating and pushing out deployment packages using SCCM. Also assisted in patching linux machines.

●Working on Guest OS installations, Setting up VM priorities, Cloning and taking snapshots of the virutal machines for troubleshooting purpose.

●Deployed Virtual machines using existing templates and from clones.

●Creating Standard and Distributed virtual switches and port groups, configuring virtual networking settings for redundancy by teaming up NICs, and configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.

●Developing powershell and powercli scripts to automate process of installing patches and upgrading the hosts.

●Working with Active directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP and FTP.

●Creating shares and file permissions on Windows Servers for certain Active Directory groups.

●Creating and managing User Accounts and Computer Accounts and assigned folder permissions.

●Migrating Servers from physical to virtual servers and decommissioning the old physical servers.

●Configuring different Raid Arrays depends on the requirement on different hardware using storcli, perccli and Megaraid manager.

●Building 2-node and 3 node vSAN clusters, creating disk groups and troubleshooting cluster health day by day.

●Collecting logs from ESXi hosts, Windows Servers and troubleshooting them if there are issues related to Hardwar, software and firmware and upgrading them if required.

●Provided Oncall support 24x7 and written documents for future purpose.

Confianza Pvt Ltd India. June 2011- June 2014

Role : System Administrator

●Implementation and migration of Windows Active Directory Infrastructure.

●Designed from scratch and led migration to a new 2008 R2 domain, including migration of all users accounts, computer accounts, and Exchange mailboxes.

●Installed, configured, supported and maintained physical Windows Server 2012 R2/2008 Servers and virtual Windows Server 2008 R2/2012 Servers along with DNS Servers, DFS Servers, Domain Controllers, Printer Servers, and Created Virtual DR Servers.

●Building ESX/ ESXi hosts upgrading/ downgrading BIOS and ILO Firmware, Performing memory test, updating ESX drivers and configuring server profiles.

●Installed VMware ESX 4.X, ESXi 4.x, 5.x and conducted CPU load tests on the host and also installed HP systems insight manager.

●Integrated ESX/ESXi hosts to v-center and applied, managed host profiles and checked for profile compliance.

●Wrote complex PowerShell & PowerCLI Scripts and remotely executed multiple servers from any server running the script.

●Conversion of physical servers to virtual machines, upgrade of already existing virtual machines to higher versions with aid of VMware and Vizioncore technologies.

●Building virtual machines, creating templates, cloning and deploying virtual machines.

●Successfully implementing pre-migration and post-migration activities.

●Interacting closely with storage Administrators, System Administrators and Database Administrators to Plan recommend and implement strategies around upgrades for Servers, Storage for Virtualized environment.

●Maintenance of the server farm, Performance tuning and capacity planning related to the Virtualized environment and monitoring performance activities.

●Deploying Virtual Machines from Gold Templates

●Running reports of the Virtual Center using Virtual Center operations Manager

●Migrating Physical and Virtual Machines using VMConvertor and Plate Spin.

●Building MS SQL Cluster on Virtual Servers

●Disaster Recovery methods and procedure related to Virtualization Environments.

●Led a team of five, for Datacenter Migration and virtualization of over Windows Servers as a part of Disentanglement.

●24x7 on-call rotation for support of production systems and trips to data-center for trouble shooting.

●Creating, updating and managing project documentation.

●Effective communication between cross-functional teams and within the team for Virtualized environment.

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