Pradip Nikalje

Expert in server administration with 11.7 years of experience in Windows server, VMware virtualization, combined with 7 years of experience in server migration. Passion for continuous learning, seeking challenging opportunity to utilize my server migration skills in maintaining and optimizing server infrastructure.

• 1-Received Wintel best Performer of year trophy from HP in 2016

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• BAU/TOC Team work at UBS Bank, Pune location-
• Administration of windows server 2012, 2008 & 2003,2008,2008R2,2016,2019 physical/virtual Server environment over 30,000 servers
• Experience in Installing, Configuring, Troubleshooting, and Upgrading (Server 2K3, 2K8 & 2K12,2K16,2K19)
• Deployed various antivirus tools of McAfee for Secured Network
• Worked on windows firewall for port opening/rule creation
• Administrating of cluster issues of node, resources, groups, quorum disks, failover clusters
• Share Folder permissions issue of share paths
• Involved in the security & software updates and patching on servers
• Managing Virtual infra through vCenter server
• Creating, modifying, managing & deletion of VM’s
• Installing and configuring ESXi server
• Datastore creation & deletion
• Creating Templates and deploying VM’s, Creating clone of VM
• Snapshot creation, consolidation & deletion.
• Migration of VM’s through vMotion & storage vMotion for datastore migration of VM’s
• Configuring alarms and providing permission on vCenter server
• Trouble shooting VM and Datastore issue daily post investigating the vCheck report.
• Worked on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) & update manager.
• Creating & managing HA & DRS Cluster, Fault Tolerance in VM
• Knowledge of VMware ESXi server 5.5 & worked on vCenter for increasing RAM, CPU & Disk
• Knowledge of ticketing tool Service now

• Virtual to virtual server migration from DEEP DC to HP cloud (IAAS) using platespin migration tool from 1 gig to 10 gig speed
• Physical to virtual server migration (P2V) using VMware vconverter
• Physical to physical server migration from datacenter-to-datacenter from 1 gig to 10gig speed
• Physical to physical server migration from datacenter-to-datacenter from 10 gig to 25gig speed
• Physical server migration in same datacenter for rack space consolidation.
• Migration of blade servers from one chassis to another chassis
• OS upgrade of windows from 2008, 2008R2, 2012, to 2016 or 2019 as Microsoft support ended.
• Migrating virtual machine servers from OnPrem virtual infra to azure cloud
• Migrating virtual machines from OnPrem virtual infra to hybrid azure cloud using VMware HCX tool

• Responsible for managing 500+ physical and virtual windows servers DHCP, DNS and various other Infrastructure services
• Installation, troubleshooting of Servers, Patch updating, Updating of OS Service Packs and Antivirus updates on windows servers
• Proactive approach to managing disk space, processor utilization, and diagnose hardware log files and events log analysis
• Managing Virtual infra through vCenter server
• Creating, modifying, managing & deletion of VM’s
• Installing and configuring ESXi server
• Datastore creation & deletion
• Creating Templates and deploying VM’s, Creating clone of VM
• Snapshot creation, consolidation & deletion
• Migration of VM’s through vMotion & storage vMotion for Datastore migration of VM’s
• Configuring alarms and providing permission on vCenter server
• Creating and managing virtual machines resources and installing VM Tools
• Trouble shooting VM and Datastore issue daily post investigating the vCheck report.
• Worked on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) & update manager
• Creating & managing HA & DRS Cluster, Fault Tolerance in VM
• Daily Monitoring of servers through Site Scope and what’s up gold monitoring tools
• Physical health check of servers in datacentre
• Configure the Remote console for the HP ML, DL and Blade servers using ILO and HP OA
• Working on Service request, Incident Management, Problem Management and Change Management
• Raising change request for any planned activity & preparing action plan and service outage report
• Front ending communication to onsite team/client. Participating in weekly review meetings