Uday Kumar Kalidasu
Hyderabad
Summary
Resourceful System Administrator consistently responds to wide range of technical challenges with focused and creative approach. Highly effective at problem solving and decision making 9+ years of progressive IT experience.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
VMware Administrator
CONDUENT Business Services Ltd
07.2021 - 02.2024
- Proficient knowledge on VMware Virtualization product such as VMware vSphere5.x/5.5./6.0/6.5x, vCenter Server 5.5/6.0/6.5 VMware ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7/7.0 Servers, VCF, VxRail ,Dell & Cisco UCS Hardware
- Project management and leadership, and Time Management Skills
- Deploying Connection server and managing and administration of Connection Server troubleshoot technical problem related to virtualization solution
- Project Planning and Coordination and ownership
- Planning and Upgrade of vSphere Virtual Infrastructure
- Server 2008R2, 2012R2,2016,2019 Administration
- Experienced in Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware vSphere 5.0, vCenter Servers and Deploying HA & DRS Cluster, Managing cluster resources
- Worked with Cisco & Dell computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 and vCenter 5.5/6.0/6.5
- Experienced in applying monthly updates to windows servers 2003, 2008R2/2012/2016/2019
- Cloning, Building and deploying new VM's and Installing different guest OS like Windows server 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019 and Linux
- Creating virtual NIC's for respective VM's and assigning network connections to a particular port group in the Vswitch's
- Maintaining disk spaces, RAM and connections to SAN of virtual servers
- Performed V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESXi hosts
- Maintaining Backups of the VM's, taking snapshots
- Participate in developing the organization's technology roadmap
- Coordinate with all departments to ensure the IT infrastructure meets their needs and suggest changes or improvements to the infrastructure as needed
- Maintain a detailed spreadsheet of all servers, networking appliances, software licenses, and hardware within the organization to track maintenance renewal dates
- Responsible for server deployments which include application installation’s, operating system updates and security patches
- Monitoring, managing and reporting daily, weekly and monthly server status.
Associate Consultant Systems
Atos IT services
01.2017 - 06.2021
- Installing, configuring and managing Virtual Infrastructure, ESXi 5.x and 5.1\5.5\6.0 VCenter 5.5/6, vSphere 5/5/5/6
- Using VMware vCenter, created Datacenters Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS
- Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for physical servers using VMware Converter tools
- Baseline creation for ESXi servers upgrade and patch installation using vCenter update Manager
- Migrating Virtual Machines from existing Virtual Infrastructure
- Creating, and deploying Virtual Machine Clones and Templates
- Creating and managing VM Ware cluster
- Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster
- Allocating LUN's to respective hosts depending upon the client request
- Taking care of System performance troubleshooting in terms of CPU and memory utilizations
- Using CA tool for incident, problem & change management
- Installation and configuration of High-end Servers like HP ProLiant, Dell Power Edge, Cisco
- Coordinating with different Vendors for resolving the problem according to the SLA and sending timely escalations to the higher levels in case of any discrepancies & follow up the same
- Installing and configuring of Virtual Standard Switches and assigning port groups to it
- Working in windows platform.
Associate
Accenture Solutions
06.2015 - 01.2017
- Designed cross-functional interactions to reduce dependency and redundancy between diverse operational teams.
- Served as a subject matter expert providing guidance on engineering best practices throughout the organization during various stages of project development cycles.
- Captured technical schematics for use in project planning and execution.
- Prepared action plans for problematic processes and assets.
- Communicated environmental issues with clarity and technical accuracy to scientific and management colleagues.
- Drafted and submitted reports to regulatory bodies on environmental conditions.
Education
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
JNTU K
Kakinada, India06.2012
B.COM - Accounting And Finance
Acharaya Nagaarjuna Univesity
Guntur, India05.2009
Skills
- Patch management
- System Upgrades
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- VMware ESXi Configuration
- Servers expertise
- Virtualization management
- Incident Management
- Monitoring tools
- Configuration Management
- Server Management
- IT best practice framework expertise
- VMware SRM Administration
- Performance Tuning
Technical Summary
- Creating and configuring Data center and clusters in vCenter server.
- Administration and Trouble shooting of ESXi 5.0 & 5.5&6.0&6.5 , Virtual Center 5.5,6.0,6.5, 6.7 &7.0
- Expertise on Creating virtual machines, installing operating systems inside VM’s and installing tools and configure these VM’s based on customer requirements.
- Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and Templates.
- Good Knowledge on Deploying and Managing Virtual Machines using Virtual center through OVF/OVA.
- Configuring Resource Pool, Alerts, Alarms.
- Experience on vMotion and sVmotion, HA feature, DRS feature.
- Creating Virtual Switches & port groups in virtual environment.
- Configuring vSphere Standard Switches (VSS) and virtual distributed switches (VDS).
- Configuring LUNS to ESX/ESXi host data stores and extending the data stores.
- Updating and Upgrading the ESX and ESXI servers using VMware update manager.
- Convert physical machines to virtual machines (P2V) and virtual machines to virtual machines (V2V) with VMware converter.
- Configuring and troubleshooting HA and DRS features using CLI.
- Monitoring performance of server
- Adding ESXi, Creating and configuring Datacentres and Clusters in the VCenter server.
- Creating cluster for high Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS).
- Configured Resource Pool, Alerts, Alarms, NTP.
- Installing different Guest operating systems and VMware tools in virtual machines.
- Analyzing and troubleshooting the performance of CPU, Memory, Disk, NIC cards on VM.
- Creating and managing Resource Pools, Setting Reservation, Shares and Limits.
- Configuring and troubleshooting HA and DRS for fail over and load balancing.
- Involvement in P2V conversion.
Profile Overview
Total Having 8+ Years of Experience in building, configuring and managing Virtualization Environment using VMware ESXi servers.
Timeline
VMware Administrator
CONDUENT Business Services Ltd
07.2021 - 02.2024
Associate Consultant Systems
Atos IT services
01.2017 - 06.2021
Associate
Accenture Solutions
06.2015 - 01.2017
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
JNTU K
B.COM - Accounting And Finance
Acharaya Nagaarjuna Univesity
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