Avesh Sampara
Hyderabad,TG
Summary
To continuously grow in a challenging information technology career with an industry leading company and leverage proven experience and a “can do” attitude to successfully obtain company and individual goals and objectives.
Over 16 years of professional experience as Infrastructure Engineer performing VMware Products internal certification & implementation, support of vCenter, ESX Server, vRO, vROPs (Aria operations and orchestration). Primary strengths lie in ability to make sound business judgments, decisiveness, and well-developed planning, analytical, and communication skills.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Consultant Specialist
HSBC Software Development Center
05.2016 - Current
- New vCenter deployments, migration of objects, upgrading and patching
- ESXi Deployment, upgrade and troubleshooting issues
- Standalone vRO Deployment, upgrade and troubleshooting issues
- Analysing latest CVE released for vCenters/ESX/vROPs and vRO
- Development of Jenkins pipelines for execution of tasks on vcenter/esx
- Tasks included Day-to-Day operations, configuration of master servers, hardware and software troubleshooting, new device configuration
- Comprehensive understanding of VMware ESXi 3.X, 4.X, 5.X,6.X, 7.X, 8.x and Windows […] Server Core Infrastructure
- Documentation of Newly created automation task and troubleshooting steps for future reference for Team
- Testing and Certification of New Firmware released for HP/Lenovo/Dell Servers
- Testing and certification of VMTools for Windows Servers
- Evergreening of HP Gen9 Servers to Lenovo/Dell Servers
- Hands on experience in Powershell/Powercli Scripting
- Hands on experience on managing of HP ILO and IBM ASM, IMM
- Hands on experience on HP DL380, DL560 Server and IBM Servers
- Installing and configuring ESXi 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 client
- 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 VMWare 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 datastore to another using Storage VMotion
- Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between virtual machines
- Configuring alarms
- Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting
- Troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs
- Manage task, events and alarms
- Troubleshooting virtual machine issues
- Manage users, groups, permissions and roles
- Regular System Administration tasks like User Accounts, access, Permissions, Security, Planning
System Administrator
Computer Science Corp
03.2015 - 05.2016
- Configuring RAID in Physical Servers
- Installation and administration of various Server Operating Systems like Windows 2012,2012 R2, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2008 and Windows 2003
- Hands on experience on managing of DELL DRAC and IBM ASM, IMM
- Worked on ESXi Installation and configuration
- Adding hosts to the cluster
- Administration of Active Directory, Creation, Deletion and managing the Users, Groups and OUs
- Delegation of administration tasks to the role base IDs
- Worked on DR Environment
- Restoration and Testing the DR Servers
- Worked on DR Activity and prepared documents
- File server management, including Shared folder creation, quota management, and access restriction through Security groups
- Testing the Microsoft Server Patches in the Test Environment, generating the reports and getting the necessary approval for installing in production
- Effectively managing physical and virtual entities to improving efficiency of time, cost, and resources
- Installing, configuring and managing ESX server and Virtual Center
- VM Servers build & rebuild (Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM as per the client request through change management process)
- Creating and managing resource pools and adding the VM's into resource pools
- Manage VM's using VMware Vcenter 5.1
- Creating and managing VM Ware cluster
- Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster
- Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections
- Moving VM's from one LUN to another LUN using Storage VMotion
- Manage tasks, events and alarms
- Troubleshooting virtual machine issues
- Manage users, groups, permissions and roles
System Administrator
ProcessMAP InfoTech Pvt Ltd
05.2011 - 02.2015
- Configuring RAID in Physical Servers
- Installation and administration of various Server Operating Systems like Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2008 and Windows 2003
- Administrating DNS, DHCP servers
- Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager
- Experienced with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals
- Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment
- Installing, configuring and managing ESX server 3.x and 4.x
- VM Servers build & rebuild (Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM as per the client request through change management process)
- Manage VM's using VMware virtual center
- Creating and managing VMWare cluster
- Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster
- Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections
- Responsible for Desktop, Laptop, Network and Outlook support & troubleshooting client’s issues
- Manage tasks, events and alarms
- Troubleshooting virtual machine issues
- Manage users, groups, permissions and roles
Senior Process Executive
Infosys Limited
12.2008 - 05.2011
- Responsible for creation and maintenance of all user and Non user accounts of Microsoft Corporation supporting them using centralized tools AccManNG
- Responsible for research and development activity to deliver the quick solutions to the users while adhering to the Service Level Agreement
- Monitoring network activities to ensure the smooth functioning of network access system of the MS
- Resolving the error ids in SQL environment and giving responses through ITSM tool
- Responsible for carrying out the root cause analysis and implementing SIP (service improvement plan)
- Manage mailbox permissions and other user account related queries through Powershell
- Dealing with the smart card, RAS approvals
- Move and delete the computer objects in AD
- IRM (Information Rights Management) trouble shooting
- SPN constraint delegation registration
- Forefront Identity Management and group managements
Education
BSc - Computer Science
Nagarjuna University
01.2008
Skills
- VMware ESXi
- VMware vCenter
- VMware Aria Operations
- VMware Aria Orchestrator
- VMware Aria Operations for logs
- NetApp 7-Mode
- All Windows Servers
- All Windows Client OS
- ADS/DNS/DHCP/FTP/IIS
Professional Highlights
- HSBC Software Development Center, Senior Consultant Specialist, 05/01/16 - Present, New vCenter deployments, migration of objects, upgrading and patching, ESXi Deployment, upgrade and troubleshooting, Development of Jenkins pipelines, Documentation of automation tasks
- Computer Science Corp, System Administrator, 03/01/15 - 05/31/16, Configuring RAID in Physical Servers, Administration of Active Directory, Worked on DR Environment, File server management
- ProcessMAP InfoTech Pvt Ltd, System Administrator, 05/01/11 - 02/28/15, Configuring RAID in Physical Servers, Administrating DNS, DHCP servers, Responsible for Active directory, Installing, configuring and managing ESX server
- Infosys Limited, Microsoft, Hyderabad, Senior Process Executive, 12/01/08 - 05/31/11, Creation and maintenance of user accounts, Monitoring network activities, Resolving error ids in SQL environment
Experience Years
16
Certification
VMware vSphere 8.x Professional, 2V0-21.23
Timeline
Senior Consultant Specialist
HSBC Software Development Center
05.2016 - Current
System Administrator
Computer Science Corp
03.2015 - 05.2016
System Administrator
ProcessMAP InfoTech Pvt Ltd
05.2011 - 02.2015
Senior Process Executive
Infosys Limited
12.2008 - 05.2011
BSc - Computer Science
Nagarjuna University
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