Nivagana Somnath

VMware and Windows System Administrator with 5+ years of experience in VMware ESXi, vCenter, HA, DRS, and Windows Server administration. Experienced in infrastructure monitoring, troubleshooting, migrations, and security compliance. Seeking a challenging role in a professional environment to leverage technical expertise and support organizational objectives.

Six sigma

• Having 5+ years IT experience as a VMware Administrator, Wintel Administrator and VDI administrator.
• Troubleshooting the issues like C: Drive, Sever unreachable, and RDP issues.
• Worked on user raised tickets these can be resolved in change request with Vender like extending disk size, Memory failure, motherboard crash.
• Resources utilization analysis (High Memory, High CPU, High Network Traffic).
• Disk & Data stores issues (Low disk space in Drive C: D: E: etc... and Data Store Low disk space).
• Remote Server Administration through Remote Desktop Connection... etc.
• Managing virtualization Environment using VMware ESX/ESXI 5.x and 6.x, Virtual Center, vSphere client, vSphere web client.
• Installation, Configurations, Administration and Troubleshooting of ESXi 5.x and 6.x, Virtual Center, vSphere Client, and update manager.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines with Template.
• Creating Cluster with High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) features.
• Expertise in monitoring VM's & ESXi host servers using Virtual Center.
• Migrating VM's using vMotion and Storage vMotion, Performing Snapshots, Cloning Cold Migration and Hot migration.
• Configuring Alarms and scheduled tasks.
• Installing and upgrading VM tools and Hardware Version to improve virtual machine performance.
• Hands on migrating P2V & V2V migrations using Standalone Converter Tool.
• Experience on configuring data store to Esxi server using SCSI, or LUNs.
• Expertise in Windows 2012, 2008 Active Directory server administration.
• Hands on working with Hardware tickets and with communicating vendor support.
• Co-coordinating with different teams and vendors for resolving issues within the SLA.
• Responsible in using Service now Ticking tool for resolving incidents and change requests raised by users.
• Involved in P1 & P2 tickets handling.

• Handled team operations, including roster preparation, shift planning, and workload distribution.
• Assigned tasks to team members and tracked activities frequently to ensure timely completion.
• Coordinated with team members to ensure SLA adherence and on-time delivery of activities.
• Provided guidance and support to team members for resolving complex infrastructure issues.
• Installing different flavors of Windows Servers 2012, 2012R2, 2016, 2019 and 2022 and doing post build activities.
• Preparing daily checklists updating management.
• Monitoring, managing and reporting daily, weekly and monthly server status.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting ESXI and WINDOWS OS.
• Creating, managing and troubleshooting group policies.
• Perform Security Health Check of Windows servers and other compliance.
• Providing Active Directory access to users as on demand.
• Monitoring Active Directory servers
• Remote Server Administration through Remote Desktop Connection... etc.
• Troubleshooting Windows related and VM ware related server issues
• Taking snapshots of servers in VMware Enviroment.
• Performing the Storage vMotion between the hosts to manage the resources.
• Creating Clone copies for the servers based on App team request or OS upgradation activities
• Taking Server Snapshot based on user request., Reverting the server snapshot based on user request
• Maintain and updating the infra inventories up to date
• Providing space to the servers as request based.
• Providing the servers utilization report by using RV tools when user requested
• Installing the applications in server as user requested
• Adding and Providing Access to the users for the Particular groups in AD.
• Creating share folders for the users and providing access to the users
• Giving assistance to the Other teams whenever they required the assistance from VM team end
• Significant experience on VMware ESX/ESXI (6.7 and 7.0 ), vCenter (6.7 and 7.0).
• Adding ESXI, Creating and configuring Datacenter and clusters in vCenter server.
• Expertise on Creating virtual machines, install operating systems inside VM's and install 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.
• Experience on V-Motion and SV Motion migration, HA feature, DRS feature.
• Configuring LUNS to ESX server 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.
• Extensive Experience in Microsoft Server 2012, 2016, 2019 and 2022
• Expertise in installing, configuring and troubleshooting on Windows 2012/2016/ 2019 and 2022 servers using enterprise standards.
• Good troubleshooting skills both with hardware and software in the Windows environment.
• Virtual and physical server provisioning and decommission process.
• Granting access to the Servers/ Share Folders & Files on both the domains.
• Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. following standards and project/operational requirements.
• Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off-site as necessary.
• Apply OS patches and upgrades regularly and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure/add new services as necessary.
• Microsoft Windows security patches management & deployment.
• Configuring and troubleshooting Group policies for controlling computers and users.