Karthika Teja G

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Vmware VDI Horizon System Engineer

8+Years of enterprise IT projects life cycle experience on deploying, administrating, maintaining, and supporting enterprise level in VMware and Windows Admi, Hardware, and customized applications. Experience on analysis, administration, and support of VMWare Horizon View VDI, Thin clients, and other VDI-related technology.

●Experience in Migrating the environment into the 2016 windows server.

●Experience in Installing, Setup, Configuration & Administer Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016.

●Experience in implementation and supporting VMware VSphere, Vcenter, ESXi 4.1/4.0/5.0/5.5/6/6.5.

●Experience in Windows System Administration, Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Performance Monitoring, Active directory.

●Enterprise level computer systems management, Configured TCP/IP networks, and network printers.

●Experience installing the SQL 2008, 2012 and 2016.

●Experience in installing HP ProLiant Server Hardware, Dell Hardware, Cisco UCS, Microsoft, HP products, and windows configuration.

●Experience and Familiar with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware ESX/ESXi Servers.

●Experience in Microsoft Windows Desktop 7, 8, 10

●Knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite, virtual networking, wireless networks &Cloud computing concepts. Experience and Familiar with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware ESX/ESXi Servers.

●Experience in Creating and managing VMs (virtual server) and the maintenance of the virtual server.

●Experience in storage of SAN and NAS.

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

●Experience with the VMware Vmotion, storage Vmotion, HA and VMware DRS.

●Deployed and Maintained Microsoft Technologies including: Windows Servers 2003, 2008, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, and Implementation, Remote Desktop Services, Windows Deployment Services.

●Experience in working on Microsoft Office 365.

●Experience in Writing/Maintaining and troubleshooting scripts written in PowerShell for build and operations environment to develop, test, and implement automation tools.

●Good communication and people skills. Ability to work individually and in teams.

●Highly motivated with good organizational and Analytical skills.

●Outstanding customer service skills with the highest number of positive reviews polished communication and presentation skills.

●Experience in WINS, DNS, DHCP, Virtual Server Administration, and Patch Management on Microsoft Windows Servers.

Education:

Bachelor’s in computer science from St. Josephs College, Visakhapatnam, India

Technical Skills:

VMware ESX/ESXi

VMware vCenter, Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019

Windows 7/10

Hyper-V, Active Directory, PowerCLI scripting

Vmware vROPS, VMware Horizon RDSH

VMWare User Environment Manager Dynamic Environment Manager, Systems Administration

DNS, DHCP, Desktop pools

patching, monitoring

Information Technology

Active Directory

VMware Horizon / VDI

AppSense

SCCM, SCOM,

Cisco UCS, UCS Manager

VxRail, Linked Clones,

Instant Clones, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) troubleshooting,

Application pools, RDS Desktop

Horizon security server

Citrix, Group policy management, Profile management recompose, change management.

ServiceNow

Dynamic Environment Manager, Systems Administration

Microsoft NOS & Office Suite

Microsoft App-V

VMware App Volumes

TrueSSO

Migration, Single sign on

Professional Summary:

VMware VDI Horizon Engineer

Hitachi Vantara, Santa Clara, CA September 2018 to Till Present

●Actively involved and participated in the planning and design expansion of Horizon VDI for additional use cases while scaling infrastructure to maintain peak performance.

●Tested, troubleshooted and deployed applications, upgrades and operating system security updates in the virtual desktop environment while working with application teams to minimize user impact.

●Managed ThinApp and AppVolumes application delivery technologies.

●Created, Tested, and maintained Group Policies used to configure the virtual desktops.

●Monitored, tuned, and troubleshoot the VDI environment using vRealize Operations Manager for View

●Configured and migrated DMVPN Tunnels from current environment.

●Deployed PowerShell scripts to various VCenter servers for monthly VMware metric reports.

●Configure, manage, and maintain a VMware Horizon View Desktop Infrastructure (VI) environment.

●Deliver Microsoft operating systems (OS) and Maintain application patches to VMware Horizon View platform management server OS's.

●Managing and maintaining over 200 ESXi5.x servers located in different clusters and physical locations across the globe.

●Configured and Managed HA/DRS and vSphere vMotion.

●Deliver VMware Horizon View application patches and updates to the VMware Horizon View platform management systems, but not limited to vSphere Hypervisor (ESX), vCenter Management Toolset, Horizon View connection servers and VMware Horizon View Security servers.

● Managing User profiles and Configuring VMWARE infrastructure for new locations and coordinating with vendors to resolve Hardware related issues.

●Perform monthly updates to the VMWare Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) non-persistent Master/Gold Image.

●Administer and manage 8000 VDI's sprawl and its infrastructure.

●Providing Hands and Feet Datacenter support to Network and Storage teams who work from remote locations to support this infrastructure.

●Working on integrating SCOM with Service Now for Auto ticketing knowledge of PowerShell like cleaning missing VDI desktops, Pool information, network labelling etc.

VMware VDI Engineer

Nationwide Mutual Insurance, Columbus OH July 2016 to August 2018

●Worked with the Business Technology Infrastructure team to apply VDI systems technology solutions in support of identified business problems.

●Responsible for analysis, administration, and support of VMWare Horizon View VDI, thin clients, and other VDI-related technology.

●Expertise in installation, configuration, and administration of Windows and VMWARE servers on different platforms

●Deployed VDI Instances and creating over 15000+ desktops by building an entirely new infrastructure of Horizon View 7 also integrated with existing Infrastructure.

●Created VDI Golden Images

●Installing and configuring View Connection Servers (Standard & Replica)

●Successfully configured View Security servers in DMZ and paired them with the Connection servers and responsible for troubleshooting issues regarding replication errors for connection servers.

●Implemented VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW / Horizon 6.X / 7.6.

● Expertise level in thin provisioning, VMFS expansion, RAID technologies

● Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching.

●Expertise level and experience in working with vMotion and Storage vMotion technology.

●Proficient in Windows servers and upgrade of 2008 servers to 2012 and 2016 servers as per the versions used like standard and enterprise upgrade and Active Directory Administration

●Experience on vRealize Operation Manager dash boards and reports for both vSphere and Horizon view.

●Configured Resource Pool, Alerts, Alarms and Migrated Virtual Machine using PowerCLI.

●Experience on developing workflow for automation within VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO).

●Experience in Configuring Networking on Standard vSwitch, Distributed vSwitch. Capable of administering/configuring iSCSI, NAS and NFS storages.

●Used Commvault backups in VMware, for backup recovery and disaster recovery.

●Worked on Automated provisioning using vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO).

VMware VDI Engineer

Kroger, Cincinnati, OH May 2014 to June 2016

●Managed & assisted in the implementation of VMware Horizon 6 VDI system via agile methodology.

●Provided Tier 3 support for VMware Horizon View VDI and Windows Assisted with setting up and troubleshooting Active Directory and Group Policy.

●Constructed\managed VDI base images, pools, virtual desktop machines.

●Resolved VDI system issues during implement\pilot phase.

●Created cost benefit analysis\performance evaluation matrix of industry-leading thin client technology.

●Involved in VDI troubleshooting, implementation & best practices.

●Developed VDI implementation roadmap.

●Created VDI administrator roles\responsibility mode.

●Performed patch management for 4VDI environments pertaining to SEP & Microsoft updates via Alteris.

●Created and maintained VDI parent images\snapshots creations via Alteris & VDI optimization best practices\standards.

●Provides production support including on-call rotation Prioritization, distribution, and monitoring of incidents, service request, and changes Assist in facilitating datacenter activities such as system upgrades and hardware provisioning

●Managing Linked Clone VDI Perform monthly updates to the VMWare Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) non-persistent Master/Gold Image Administer and manage 8000 VDI's sprawl and its infrastructure.

●Providing Hands and Feet Datacenter support to Network and Storage teams who work from remote locations to support this infrastructure.

●Worked on integrating SCOM with Service Now for Auto ticketing

●Wrote PowerShell for cleaning missing VDI desktops, Pool information, network labelling etc.

●Managed VMware-assisted support calls\cases pertaining to resolving VDI environment issues.

●Generated documentation in the areas of VDI Troubleshooting, VDI Optimizations, VDI standard operating procedures, VDI risk assessment, VDI system proposals, VDI ROI\Executive reporting.

●Established productive & excellent customer service relationships with third-party vendor.

Vmware/Windows Engineer

Comerica Bank, Auburn Hills, MI March 2012 to April 2014

●Installed and configured VMware vCenter 5.1 servers to enable centralized management of multiple hosts.

●Administrated the environment having about 200+ ESXi hosts and about 3000+ VMs.

●Configured linked mode configuration on vCenter servers for the ease of operations.

●Supported a large-scale Datacenter project including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities.

●Design and implement various VMware server consolidations using Virtual Center, ESX Sever and various P2V conversion tools such as Platespin and VMware Converter.

●Created and maintained environmental specific installation and configuration guides for P2V conversions, ESX Server, vCenter Server, vSphere Clients, VMware Tools, Patch upgrades.

●Implemented and tested Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

●Administrated 12 fully populated vBlock 300HX series environments.

●Deployed and maintained MS Exchange 2007 servers in production and migrated all users from MS Exchange 2003 to MS Exchange 2007

●Secured the Dev environment by implementing a new Dev domain. In this domain, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policies, and Security Policies were introduced to help secure the critical data that is imported into Dev.

●Built, installed, and maintained all Windows servers in an educational environment. Effectively and efficiently troubleshot and repaired all server related issues.

●Configured and maintained DNS and Active Directory. Controlled and maintained Inventory Technology related inventories for all support areas. Documented and filed all end user related issues. Created and managed user accounts on the MAC network.

●Worked with the VCE Technical support team, CISCO TAC, UIMP and UIMOPs engineering team to fix the unknown bugs, helped them to replicate the issues.

●Installed and Configured UIMOPs for vBlock Infrastructure monitoring.

●Configured the standard cluster settings for the vCenter clusters.

●Used vCloud Director for provisioning the VMs and vApps.

●Implementing and managing Windows 2003/2008 ADS, DNS, DHCP Server with client

requirements. Administered the Group Policy, also used group policy to automatically upgrade, repair software installation online.

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