Arun K Aravind - Vmware and Windows Admin - KYNDRYL SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

Summary

Experienced technical professional prepared to excel in technical support and system maintenance roles. Skilled in diagnosing and resolving technical issues, ensuring optimal system performance. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, with adaptability to changing needs and environments.

Overview

1

Certification

18

years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Specialist

KYNDRYL SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

11.2021 - Current

Providing technical support and managing the Tier 2 team.
Managing Cloud server hosted in Azure.
Installation, configuration and troubleshooting VMware ESXi 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5,7 and ESXi 8
Create VMs template and deploying the VMs from templates.
Configuring and managing HA, DRS enabled clusters.
Managing the Dell, IBM, HP and CISCO UCS hardware server.
Creating the VMs and installing the windows server as per the client standard.
Creating the Backup and replication of VMs.
Migrated the VMware ESXI5.1 farm to ESXi 6.5 Farm and from 6.5 to 8
Participated in Mock DR activity using SRM and Zerto
Configuring SRM
DR configuration using Zerto
Maintained comprehensive documentation of technical processes, facilitating knowledge sharing among team members.
Provided exceptional customer support, resolving complex technical issues with effective communication skills.
Managed multiple high-priority projects simultaneously, consistently meeting deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.
Trained junior technicians on industry best practices and company-specific procedures, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
Mentored fellow team members in advanced technical concepts, fostering a collaborative work environment where ideas were freely exchanged.
Streamlined technical workflows for enhanced productivity through the implementation of automation tools.
Reduced downtime by proactively identifying potential network problems and implementing corrective measures.
Developed technical requirement documentation for new software products.
Installation/Configuration/Troubleshooting of VMWare vSphere Server.
Experience in cluster manage, Resource allocation, Resource sharing, HA Configuration.
Install, configure and up gradation of ESX, ESXI boxes (Firmware Upgradation & intelligent provisioning).
Patching of ESXi hosts from the Update Manager (VUM).
Taking snapshot of virtual machine & Restoration.
Host and Date center migration.
VDP implementation.
Participated in DR activities for all the critical servers, we do up all the critical servers’ replicas to perform the DR exercise.
Checking NIC teaming and duplex information.
Generating array diagnostics utility reports.
Various datacenter and vendor coordination for parts replacements.
Working and implementation of NSR report and activity.
Responsible for granting share and folder access to end users.
Responsible for adding various groups and granting desired permission.
Managing Users and Computers with Group Policy.
Handling issues related to File and Print Servers.
Maintaining Windows clustering (failover clustering).
Updating Windows Up-to-date and installing all the Windows updates and patches.
Patching (Automatic and Manual) issues.
Responsible for end-to-end patching and security compliance every month.
SAN multipathing and HBA checks.
Experience in creating and implementing changes.
Normal change, OPR for any installation and configuration change.
Energy change for any P1, p2 business impacting CI.
Disk expansion on virtual and physical servers.
Page file split and movement on servers.
Troubleshooting TSM back up failure issues.
Troubleshooting system state back up issues.
Initiating back from backup archive command line.
Initiating incremental and system state back up.
Tsm client installation.
Tsm modification on dsm.opt files.
Checking and analyzing issues in TSM errors logs, TSMScheduler logs.
Used various remote management tools like RDP client, HP ILO.
Ability to raise tickets with Microsoft, other applications or Hardware vendor to resolve hardware, OS or Application related issue.
Work within ITIL model and effective with problem and incident management tools.
Submit a comprehensive report of the issue & the resolution for the business-critical issues to the higher-level management along with timelines.
Send reports to higher level management after analyzing the performance of the critical servers & inform the same in the management bridge calls if required.
Strictly adhere to the process & compliance procedures set up by the company.

Wipro Technologies

01.2016 - 01.2020

Mindteck (India) Limited – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

01.2015 - 01.2016

Company Overview: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Regenersis (India) Private Limited (Formerly Digicomp Complete Solutions Ltd.)

01.2008 - 01.2015

Education

B Tech - Electronics and Communication

MG University

Diploma - Electronics

Technical Education Board

Skills

IT infrastructure

Hardware configuration

Virtualization technologies

IT infrastructure planning

Change management

Technical consulting

Root-cause analysis

Team building

Problem-solving abilities

Excellent communication

Disaster recovery planning

VMware cloud foundation

Load balancing techniques

Server hardware maintenance

PowerShell scripting

Server migration planning

Failover clustering

Certificate services management