Summary
v I have over 8 years of experience in IT Industry & VMware Technology.
v I have gained experience in Infrastructure Management Services, Project
Transition, Consulting, Architecting and leadership skills in streams like
VMware ESX, Windows and Linux te¬¬¬¬¬chnologies.
v Proven history of implementing, deploying and administrating secure
Environment.
è I have taken on the position technical lead for 2 customers in VMware for Weyerhaeuser and O2 customers.
Technical Certifications:
v VMware VSphere 410
v MCSE Microsoft certified system engineer
v ITIL – Foundation Certified Professional.
v XEN Certified presentational
Technical Skills:
VMware:
v Installation and configuring ESX server’s (ESX3, 3.5 & 4).
v Configuring & Managing HA & DRS
v Resource management among VM’s in HA cluster & DRS.
v Configuring and Managing the SRM
v Creating and managing VSwitch, DVSwitch and Port groups.
v Converting V2V & P2V using PlatSpin, VMware convertor and Vizioncore vConvertor.
v Performing SVmotion between Multiple ESX datastore.
v Configuring Storage policy
v Installing and configuring Virtual centre, Database etc...
v Configuring Multipath, Assigning/Extending LUNS.
v Troubleshooting various kinds of network, storage and VM issues.
Linux:
v Installation of Red Hat Linux
v Configuration of services like NFS, FTP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, RAID, LVM
v Configuration of services Mail server
v Configuration of Samba Server, NIS
v Enable quota management for Users
v Other Login Services like SSH, Telnet
v Troubleshooting and Maintenance of all these services.
Professional Experience:
1. Hewlett Packard (HP) as a team lead from Jun 2009 to till date
2. TATA consultancy services as a IT annalist from Aug 2007 to may 2009
3. SUNDARAM MOTORS (TVS) as a windows Administrator from jan2007 to Jun 2007
4. ACCEL IT ACADAMY as system administrator Oct 2005 to Dec 2006
5. Vellore Online Systems (P) Limited from May 2003 to Aug 2005
Professional Experience # 1
v Organization : Hewlett Packard (HP), Chennai.
v Designation : Delivery Consultant
v Environment : VMware ESX 3.5/4.0 Servers & VC
v Duration : Jun 2009 to Till Date
v Client : 8 - Clients
v Role : Lead
Responsibilities:
Role 1: Transition Lead for O2
v As Transition Lead, I am handling O2 client. My role was to collect information from onsite engineers, transition VMware Servers developed high level design requirements for technical solutions, designed and Implemented technical solutions. Provided VMware thought leadership, expertise and counsel, facilitate and participated in Meetings and Conference. Did Knowledge transfer to Level 1, 2 & 3 teams.
v Designed and administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center. I wrote the strategy document, designed and administrated the environment. The environment has grown to over 120 ESX hosts and 1000 Virtual machines production environment. I have also designed the performance monitoring processes and improved disaster recovery processes (SRM) to utilize virtualization benefits.
Role 2: Project Lead for Weyerhaeuser
v Upgraded VSphere 4.0 , ESX 4.0 and SRM 4.0 between Washington and
Colorado data centers and migrated production servers using Dell and EMC
Clariion.
v Design and implementation of a new IT Infrastructure using VMware ESX.
v Used Plate spin and VMware converter to do P2V conversions. Prepared high
Level documents for Plate spin and VMware converter.
v Day to day Changes/Issues – Load balancing/adding storage/Migrations.
Role 3: Technical Lead
v Technical lead for Weyerhaeuser and O2. Responsible for Project works,
Initiating new changes, Operational activities, SIP activities.
Role 4: Delivery Consultant for Pepsico, Onsemi & CIBC
v Configuring & Managing ESX servers, Virtual Networks and SAN storages.
v Configuring HA & DRS and troubleshooting the cluster issues.
v Initiating performance improvement activity in virtual environment.
v Performing migration activities – SVmotion, P2V migrations.
v Troubleshooting issues on the VM’s and storage LUNs.
v Patching of ESX servers.
v Configuring and Managing Virtual center and troubleshooting VC issues.
v Load balancing of multipath among ESX Clusters.
v Day to day Changes – Load balancing/adding storage/Migrations.
Process and other knowledge’s:
v Working with change request, customer handling for different ITIL processes.
(Problem management, SR management, Change management)
v Handled tech-talks in major technologies.
Professional Experience # 2
v Organization : TATA consultancy services, Chennai.
v Designation : System Engg
v Environment : VMware ESX Servers & VC.
v Duration : Aug 2007 to May 2009.
v Client : VMware Inc.
v Role : Support
Responsibilities:
v Handling ESX 3.5/4.0 servers.
v ESX server installation and configuration on production environment.
v Virtual machine creation and migration and managing virtual machines resource allocation.
v Creating Alarm as per threshold.
v Creating templates and cloning virtual machines of Windows XP/2000/2003 and RHEL servers in production environment.
v Ensuring that the physical ESX servers are not overloaded.
v Root Cause Analysis for recurring problems.
v Configuring Virtual Switches, Vmotion, VMware HA, DRS, Alarms and updating VMware tools in all VMs.
v Proactively monitoring the system's health and taking preventive or corrective action as required.
v Monitoring the alert from the logs, errors and warnings and provided corrective action if required.
v Following change management process for any changes that are done on the Infrastructure.
v Maintaining a test server with a similar set up installed for doing any proactive testing and later applying it in the Production server.
v Preparing and sending Incident reports on Daily/Weekly/Monthly basis.
v Active participation in problem/Change management.
v Patch management For ESX servers using VMTS tool and update manager
.
Professional Experience # 3¬¬¬
v Organization : SUNDARAM MOTORS (TVS), Chennai.
v Designation : system Administrator
v Environment : Windows Administrator
v Duration : Jan 2007 to July 2007
v Client :
v Role : Support.
Responsibilities:
v Managing mission critical DATACENTER OPERATION (24/7) support.
v Installing ESX server and virtual server
v Handling ESX Server’s and LINUX Server’s.
v Handling Backup & Recovery operation.
v Maintaining virtual machine and migrating the vm’s using vmotion
v Regularly tack backup using VERITAS backup utilities
v To schedule the database backup time in VERITAS utilities
v Monitoring the server use to network monitor and event viewer
v Maintain the network printer
v Use sus to update client system
v Use group policy to control user and computer
v To edit group policy to use GPMC
v Use to MacAfee antivirus software and e-policy to control the network and update the anti virus
v There use terminal server to use the client system
v Most of the client thin client (HCL win bee)
v Conducting various backups like Database, Archive, User, and Root & Oracle as per schedule in Linux.
Professional Experience # 4
v Organization : ACCEL IT ACADAMY, Chennai.
v Designation : Windows Administrator
v Environment : Windows 2003 servers
v Duration : Oct 2005 to Dec 2006
v Role : System Administrator
Responsibilities:
v Administration of User & Group Accounts on Windows
v Backup Management using Backup utilities Exec
v Administration of Network file and Application Servers
v Monitoring Performance of Windows Servers
v Regularly Monitoring the Resource Utilization of Windows Servers
Professional Experience # 5
v Organization : Vellore Online Systems Private Limited, vellore.
v Designation : System support Executive
v Environment : Desktop Environment
v Duration : May 2003 to Aug 2005
v Role : Desktop Engineer
Responsibilities:
v Administration of User & Group Accounts on Windows
v Obtaining backup of the Server and client regularly.
v User maintenance and defining security rights and roles.
v Software and anti-virus updates from the Internet.
v Maintained two servers and their respective 100 clients
v Backup Management using Backup utilities Exec
v Administration of Network file and Application Servers
v Monitoring Performance of Windows Servers
v Regularly Monitoring the Resource Utilization of Windows Servers
Education:
B.C.A III year PURSUING
Madras university-Chennai
DECE 2001 – 2003 First Class with Honors (86%)
Director of Technical Education- Chennai.
HSC 2000 – 2001 First Class (60%)
Krishna Swamy Higher Secondary School, Vellore.
SSLC 1998 – 1999 First Class (78%)
Krishna Swamy Higher Secondary School, Vellore.
Personal Details:
Date of Birth : 05-July 1984
Sex ` : Male
Nationality : Indian
Passport no : G1941374