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Balashiva Patturi

Hyderabad

Summary

Highly skilled and experienced VMware administrator with 3 years of experience in deploying, administrating, maintaining, and supporting enterprise datacenter virtualization and cloud technologies.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

VMware/System Administrator

12.2023 - 06.2024
  • Working as a VMware/System Administrator
  • Hands on Experience on working with Service-NOW & SM9Ticketing tool
  • Supported day to day operations, monitoring alerts and resolving client/server issues
  • Having experience in using formalized incident and change management process
  • Performed software installations and upgrades to windows operating systems
  • Troubleshooting Software and Hardware issues in VMware/Windows environment
  • Supporting Production environment with strictly maintained SLA’s
  • Handson Experience in HPSA tool.

VMware Administrator

DXC Technology
06.2021 - 12.2023
  • Worked as a VMware Administrator for SAP project
  • Specialized on VMware ESXi, and vSphere environments with vCenter Management, VMware vApps, vCloud Director, Consolidated backup(vCenter), DRS and HA
  • Managed a virtualization environment using VMWare ESXi 6.5, ESXi 6.7, and ESXi 7.0, along with Virtual Center and vSphere Client
  • Hands on Experience on working with Service-NOW & Service Provider Cockpit [SPC] Ticketing tool
  • Hands on Experience in VMware NSX-T environments consists of NSX-T Manager, NSX-T Controllers, and Edge Transport Nodes for network virtualization
  • Experience in configuring vSphere DRS settings and creating affinity and anti-affinity rules to enhance workload distribution and resource allocation
  • Performed backups and snapshots for Virtual machines, ensuring reliable data protection and efficient disaster recovery
  • Implemented cluster-level admission control policies to maintain resource availability during host failures
  • Experience in working with SSL certificates - raising CSR, importing and exporting certificates, knowledge on SSL terminologies
  • Planned and executed regular patching and upgrade activities for VMWare components, coordinating with stakeholders to minimize service disruptions and maintain system security
  • Experience in Upgrading VMware Cloud Director, Life Cycle Manager, SDDC Manager, ESXi Upgrade, NSX-T Upgrade, vCenter Upgrade
  • Proficient in handling major incidents associated with system outages, ensuring timely resolution and minimizing the impact on operations
  • Supported VMware, specifically ESXi vSphere to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose, and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and over 2000+ ESXi servers
  • Experience in troubleshooting ESXi server issues from remote board end of hardware models HP ProLiant DL580 and DL560, Dell INC
  • Power Edge R930 and R840, Lenovo, Cisco Rack servers and blade servers
  • Experience in high-level root-cause analysis to identify the causes of service interruptions and implement preventive measures
  • Experience in creating and maintaining documentation and wikis, including the creation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Education

Bachelor of Technology -

Kamala Institute of Technology And Sciences

Skills

  • Proficiency in VMware vSphere, ESXi
  • Root Cause & System Log Analysis and Reporting
  • Analyzing and solving recurring problems
  • Experience in Windows admin
  • Having knowledge in Salesforce
  • Experience in working with NSX, vCD and vrealize environment
  • PowerCLI, Disater recovery, VLAN
  • Experience in Creating VM Templates, Switches and Snapshots

Certification

  • Certified in Microsoft Azure-900 and Azure-104.
  • Certified in Hybrid cloud-MSV and VMware
  • Certified in AWS Cloud Practitioner

Accomplishments

  • Received Champ Award as a recognition in Q1 FY23.
  • Got promoted as Analyst 1 Cloud Engineer in Jan 24

Timeline

VMware/System Administrator

12.2023 - 06.2024

VMware Administrator

DXC Technology
06.2021 - 12.2023

Bachelor of Technology -

Kamala Institute of Technology And Sciences
Balashiva Patturi