Sandeep Sudini

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SUMMARY

VMware professional with 12+ years of extensive experience in Storage and Virtualization design, implementation, administration and troubleshooting in mission critical environments.

• IT System Administrator skilled in multiplatform VMware, Storage (EMC\Hitachi), vRealize, Linux, Windows environments with hands on expertise in system and networking integration.

• Expertise in administration of VMware Workstation, ESX/ESXi servers, VMware vSphere and Windows Servers 2008/ 2008R2 /2012 / 2012R2.

• Installation, configuration, Administration Virtual Center Server, VMware View, SRM Site Recovery Manager 6.0/6.5/8.1/8.2, Disaster Recovery, Plate Spin, vMotion, P2V, P2P, V2V, VMware Update Manager.

• Administration of Active Directory in Windows 2008R2 / 2012 R2 environment. Managing Active Directory issues such as: Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Group Polices, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions.

• Provide updates to the DCIM web tool. Track and communicate progress of assignments using web-based tools.

• Knowledge on Linux environment and VMware vblock.

• Experience in Configuring Networking on Standard vSwitch, Distributed vSwitch.

• Experience in Configuring VMware DRS Rules and VMware HA on Clusters in Virtual Center.

• Capable of administering / configuring iSCSI, NAS and NFS storages. Familiar with RAID concept.

• Expert in maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

• Created Raid Groups, Storage Groups, LUNs and assigned LUNs to Windows and VMware hosts.

• Experience with VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) VMware View in an enterprise environment.

• Comprehensive Administration of VDI environments using View Management Server, vCenter, Cisco UCSM, EMC Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and Fabric Manager

• Hands on experience with Creating and managing VM Cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in Cluster.

• Worked on Windows Server Backup Tool, OS migration for DB, Migrated OS 2008 to Windows Server 2012.

• Patched/upgraded VMware vSphere hosts, VMs and Hyper-V Virtual Machines.

• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates. Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware and HP Blade servers resulting in a reduction of racks and power usage, decrease downtime during maintenance and upgrades and improved monitoring.

Work Experience

VMware & Windows Administrator

UMA TECHNOLOGIES INC, NEW JERSEY

Duration: Aug 2019 to till date

Client – HITACHI VANTARA

• Build, Install and Configure Enterprise Virtualization using VMware Products and Solutions.

• Rack, Stack and Configuring Cisco UCS B and C Series, HP Enclosures, HP Proliant BL/DL Hardware.

• Configured automated VM migrations using automated scripts in PowerShell. Standardized network cable runs for VMware hosts across multiple data center.

• Extensively working on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Mirage and Patch management and upgrades using VMware update manager. Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch.

• P2P, P2V, V2V Migration of Machines from one datacenter to another datacenter using migration tools like Plate spin, Double take, PowerShell scripts and VMware Converter.

• Deploying Windows 2008/2012/2016 Servers in both physical & Virtual Environments.

• Overall design, implementation and management of virtual infrastructure. To include capacity, performance, availability, automated provisioning, and event management.

• Working on Microsoft Windows Active Directory Administration, OU/User Management, Group policy Management and DNS/DHCP management.

• End to End setup and administration of VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5.

• Patch VMware ESXi 6.0 servers using VMware Update Manager Server.

• Creating Golden Image/templates, Cloning, Snapshots and provisioning new Virtual Machines.

• Working on VMware vBlock and NSX technologies.

• Administration and management of Virtual infrastructure environment - monitor, analyze, identify and troubleshoot issues, upgrade of Virtual infrastructure products - VMware vSphere suite including VMware vCenter Server, VMware ESX/ESXi (6 .0/6.5) clusters, Virtual machines and templates, VMware SRM for Disaster recovery of environment, physical to virtual migration (P2Vs), Microsoft hyper-v, Citrix virtual desktop support.

• Administrating production server's/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, File and print Servers, ADS, DNS, DHCP, and other Application Servers on Windows 2012.

• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage

• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.

• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots and Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.

• Creating and configuring vNetwork Standard Switch (vSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.

• Responsible for vRealize Operation Manager dashboards and reports for both vSphere and Horizon view

UMA TECHNOLOGIES INC

Role: VMware /Storage Administrator

Duration: May 2018 to July 2019

Client – Virtustream

Responsibilities:

End to End setup and administration of VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5.

Monitoring virtual infrastructure using VMware Vsphere

Performed V2V on virtual machines to shrink instance and reclaim disk space.

Converting new LUN’s to data stores and adding them to ESX hosts

Server data collection and capacity planning requirements for migrations

V2V Migration of Machines from one datacenter to another datacenter using migration tools like PowerShell scripts and VMware Vmotion

Extensively worked on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Mirage & patch Management and upgrades using VMware update manager.

Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch.

Administration and Management of EMC VMAX,VNX,CLAriion

Administration and managing of VNX arrays using Unisphere manager.

Storage provisioning and reclamations in EMC Symmetrix VMAX and DMAX.

Configuration the EMC Symmetrix local replication solutaion Time Finder clone and BCV.

Configuration the EMC Symmetric remote replication SRDF/S.

Worked on VMware vBlock migrations.

Management of Vxblock 540

vxBlock RCM Upgrade, operational Run Book development

Responsible for Change management

Coordinating with other teams while working on change and incident management.

Generate weekly monthly storage and SAN capacity reports for higher management and internal charge back billing

Document and maintain standard operating procedure documents to current

VMware & Windows Administrator

UMA TECHNOLOGIES INC, NEW JERSEY

Duration: May 2017 to April 2018

Client – HITACHI VANTARA

• Build, Install and Configure Enterprise Virtualization using VMware Products and Solutions.

• Rack, Stack and Configuring Cisco UCS B and C Series, HP Enclosures, HP Proliant BL/DL Hardware.

• Configured automated VM migrations using automated scripts in PowerShell. Standardized network cable runs for VMware hosts across multiple data center.

• Extensively worked on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Mirage and Patch management and upgrades using VMware update manager. Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch.

• P2P, P2V, V2V Migration of Machines from one datacenter to another datacenter using migration tools like Plate spin, Double take and VMware Converter.

• Experience in Deploying Windows 2008/2012 Servers in both physical & Virtual Environments.

• Overall design, implementation and management of virtual infrastructure. To include capacity, performance, availability, automated provisioning, and event management.

• Worked on Microsoft Windows Active Directory Administration, OU/User Management, Group policy Management and DNS/DHCP management.

• End to End setup and administration of VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5.

• Patch VMware ESXi 6.0 servers using VMware Update Manager Server.

• Creating Golden Image/templates, Cloning, Snapshots and provisioning new Virtual Machines.

•Working on VMware vBlock and NSX technologies.

• Administration and management of Virtual infrastructure environment - monitor, analyze, identify and troubleshoot issues, upgrade of Virtual infrastructure products - VMware vSphere suite including VMware vCenter Server, VMware ESX/ESXi (6 .0/6.5) clusters, Virtual machines and templates; VMware Site Recovery manager for Disaster recovery of environment; physical to virtual migration (P2Vs); Microsoft hyper-v, Citrix virtual desktop support.

• Administrating production server's/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, File and print Servers, ADS, DNS, DHCP, and other Application Servers on Windows 2012.

• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage

• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.

• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots and Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.

• Creating and configuring vNetwork Standard Switch (vSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.

• Responsible for vRealize Operation Manager dashboards and reports for both vSphere and Horizon view

VMware & Windows Administrator

Hire IT People Inc, NEW JERSEY

May 2016 to Apr 2017

Client – HITACHI VANTARA

• Build, Install and Configure Enterprise Virtualization using VMware Products and Solutions.

• Rack, Stack and Configuring Cisco UCS B and C Series, HP Enclosures, HP Proliant BL/DL Hardware.

• Configured automated VM migrations using automated scripts in PowerShell. Standardized network cable runs for VMware hosts across multiple data center.

• Extensively worked on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Mirage and Patch management and upgrades using VMware update manager. Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch.

• P2P, P2V, V2V Migration of Machines from one datacenter to another datacenter using migration tools like Plate spin, Double take and VMware Converter.

• Experience in Deploying Windows 2008/2012 Servers in both physical & Virtual Environments.

• Overall design, implementation and management of virtual infrastructure. To include capacity, performance, availability, automated provisioning, and event management.

• Worked on Microsoft Windows Active Directory Administration, OU/User Management, Group policy Management and DNS/DHCP management.

• End to End setup and administration of VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5.

• Patch VMware ESXi 6.0 servers using VMware Update Manager Server.

• Creating Golden Image/templates, Cloning, Snapshots and provisioning new Virtual Machines.

•Working on VMware vBlock and NSX technologies.

• Administration and management of Virtual infrastructure environment - monitor, analyze, identify and troubleshoot issues, upgrade of Virtual infrastructure products - VMware vSphere suite including VMware vCenter Server, VMware ESX/ESXi (6 .0/6.5) clusters, Virtual machines and templates; VMware Site Recovery manager for Disaster recovery of environment; physical to virtual migration (P2Vs); Microsoft hyper-v, Citrix virtual desktop support.

• Administrating production server's/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, File and print Servers, ADS, DNS, DHCP, and other Application Servers on Windows 2012.

• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage

• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.

• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots and Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.

• Creating and configuring vNetwork Standard Switch (vSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.

• Responsible for vRealize Operation Manager dashboards and reports for both vSphere and Horizon view

Senior Systems Engineer

Capgemini, Hyderabad

Dec 2010 to Mar 2016

• Administration and management of Virtual infrastructure environment - monitor, analyze, identify and troubleshoot issues, upgrade of Virtual infrastructure products - VMware vSphere suite including VMware vCenter Server, VMware ESX/ESXi (6.0/6.5) clusters.

• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, 2012 R2 Servers on Virtual Machines and Citrix virtual desktop support.

• Installed VMware ESX server 5.0/5.5 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Designed standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates.

• Managing large VMware infrastructure - 100+ hosts and 1500+ virtual machines and performed hundreds of migrations such as P2V, V2V and P2P using VM Converter and PlateSpin.

• Creating clusters, Resource pools and adding VM's to them and installing VM Tools.

• Performed Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations, deploying new virtual servers, maintain templates, and perform updates when necessary.

• Resource Management- Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for load balancing

• VMs migration across the ESXI servers using advanced features like vMotion.

• Monitoring roles and responsibilities to the users and Groups for access to the Virtual Center

• Performing and monitoring user's roles using Active Directory in windows server 2012R2.

• Responsible for the monitoring and troubleshooting server issues with Event Log Analyzer

• Holding permissions for user to access to folders in NTFS, FAT file systems.

• Supported storage department in Installing and configuring ISCSi, NAS and NFS storages.

• Configured Domain Name Server (DNS), created lookup zones with associated pointer records.

• Support in Administration of RHEL and Centos which includes installation, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues.

• Maintained/configured VMware Horizon Suite. Monitored logs by using VMware Log Insight.

• Monitoring roles and responsibilities to the users and Groups for access to the Virtual Center

• Responsible for the monitoring server issues with Manage Engine, Event Log Analyzer

• Plan, implement and configure Fault Tolerance (FT) solutions for business critical servers

• Perform P2P conversions using PlateSpin from old HP & Dell Hardware to Cisco UCS Blades

• Responsible for Virtual Environment maintain and well-organizing Administering Windows 2008/2012 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.

VSN TECHNOLOGIES

VMware Admin

Hyderabad

May 2008 to Nov 2010

• Installing and configuring ESX servers.

• Installing, configuring and managing virtual infrastructure and virtual center.

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

• Creating and managing virtual machines and installing VM Tools into VM’s.

• Manage VM’s using VMware virtual center.

• Managing VM’s through web access.

• Installation and configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN and NAS environment.

• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.

• Creating and managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster.

• Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections.

• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter

• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations.

• Creating templates from VM’s and deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources

• Creating duplicate VM’s using cloning technology.

• Moving VM’s from one LUN to another LUN using Storage VMotion.

• Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between virtual machines.

• Moving physical machine to virtual machine using p2v converter.

• Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting.

• Troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs.

• Installation, Configuration, and administration of Windows 2003/2000 Servers

• Installation, configuration, and administration of Windows XP/2000 Professional Client OS

• Configuring and managed DHCP, DNS and Active Directory

• Responsible for server deployments, which include application installations, operating system updates and security patches

• Handling Desktop Management including Home Directory, Profiles, and Folder Redirection.

• Maintaining Anti-Virus Server.

• Create and implement an effective back-up strategy for servers including protection and restoration of the entity’s critical data.

• Creating and Managing User accounts.

• Configuring MS Outlook, Outlook Express Clients

• Troubleshooting LAN Connectivity related problems

• Taking up the users email client issues and login into their remote systems

• Through Remote Desktop or Net Meeting and resolve the issue within SLA

• Taking Back ups and Troubleshooting Systems

• Adequate documentation for daily startup, shutdown and emergency

• Maintaining Assets Inventory and documentation.

• configuring various levels of RAID in Servers based on the business Requirements.

Additional Information

Technical Skills

Operating Systems: Windows Xp,7 & 10, Windows server 2003.2008,2012,2016, Linux (Red hat 5 /Ubuntu /Centos).

Certifications:

Hitachi Ops Center administration

VMware:

VMware vSphere (5.0 /5.1/5.5 /6.0 /6.5) ESX/ESXi, vCenter Server, VMware vCenter update Manager, VMware vCenter Converter (5.5/6.0), VMware Data Recovery, VMware Consolidated backup, SRM, VMware Mirage (5.0/5.1), HA, FT, DRS,vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Horizon.

HARDWARE:

Hitachi VSP G1000, VSP G1500, HUS-VM, USPV /USPVM, and HUS

EMC Symmetric Family – VMAX / DMX 4 /DMX 3

Emulex and Q-Logic HBAs

Windows Application Services:

Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), DNS, DHCP, WIN Services, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, RDS, DFS, IIS Remote Desktop Services, Putty and Terminal Services.

Networking: Cisco 25xx, 35xx Routers and 35xx Switches.

Network Protocol's/Services: TCP/IP, SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, VPN, Telnet, SSH, FTP, WinSCP and NTP.

Third Party Applications: Platespin, Veeam monitor, Veeam Reporter, Veeam Backup and Replication

Storage: ISCSI, SAN, NFS, VNX, VMAX.

Citrix: Xenserver 7.0, Xendesktop

Education:

Computer Science & Engineering from JNTU University

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