Kalakshi S S
Naragund
Summary
- 4 years hands-on experience and knowledge in Cisco UCS, VMware administration, VMware vSphere and Windows environment.
- Exposure to managing high-severity incidents to ensure service availability with minimal delay and low to zero impact towards ensuring smooth operations of various environments.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
01.2022 - Current
- Troubleshooting of faults in Data centers managed by Cisco UCS.
- Co-ordinate with vendors in case of hardware failures.
- Upgrade firmware of servers and infrastructure under Cisco UCS.
- Backup configuration of the UCS pods.
- Perform checks and coordinate with Disaster Recovery activities.
- Hands-on experience on ITIL process, which includes Incident & Change Management.
- Managed and maintained VMware infrastructure across multiple clusters and sites consisting of 2000+ ESXi hosts, vCenter Server and virtual switches.
- Work experience managing complex compute infrastructures supporting physical (Cisco), virtual (VMware) and compute environments.
- Implemented and maintained VMware vMotion, high availability (HA) and distributed resource scheduling (DRS) features to maximize uptime and resource utilization.
- Closely monitored the Disk Utilization, CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization on server and taking actions accordingly.
- Performed patching and upgrade of hosts and Vcenter using Update Manager and Power CLI.
- Working experience on VROPs, CIMC, Densify to monitor and build the VMs.
- Moving VM’s from one LUN to another LUN using Storage V-Motion.
- Basic troubleshooting experience of VMs and Hosts.
ASST. SYSTEM ENGINEER
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
08.2020 - 12.2021
- Supporting all VMware related issue in cluster [HA &DRS], ESXi hosts and VM Storage through V-center
- Hyper-V managing cluster resources, hosts, quorum and load balancing
- Configuring, maintaining and monitoring Windows OS such as Windows server 2008, 2012, and 2016
- Experience in installation, administration, change management, WSUS patching in production environment
- Monitoring CPU Memory and disk space utilization on Windows server
- Performing health-checks and troubleshooting them
- Daily operational calls with clients, Microsoft patch meetings and support over call for user issues.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Adichunchungiri Institute of Technology, Chikamagalur
2020
High School | Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dharwad
2016
Skills
- Platforms : Cisco UCS, Windows Server Platform(2008,2012,2016),
- Virtualization : Hyper-V, VMware Vsphere 55, 65, 70u2
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting : vRealize Operations Manager, vCenter Server Alarms
- Ticketing tool : Servicenow
- Hardware : Cisco UCS, Dell/IBM servers
- VMware Technologies : vMotion, HA, DRS, vSAN
- Operating Systems : Windows Server, Linux
- Disaster Recovery
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
01.2022 - Current
ASST. SYSTEM ENGINEER
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
08.2020 - 12.2021
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Adichunchungiri Institute of Technology, Chikamagalur
High School | Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dharwad