Rajavijay Nelakanty
Sr.Vmware Administrator
Rajahmundry
Summary
Efficient and experienced professional with proven knowledge of document imaging, Vmware & Nutanix technology with 4.5+ years of experience in the planning, designing, implementing and providing escalation (L2&L3) support. 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
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Sr.IT Analyst -Vmware/Nutanix
TCS
04.2022 - Current
- Design, implement and maintain VMware vSphere infrastructure for the project AMD
- Proactively identify and perform hardware and software upgrades
- Performed Vcenter Upgrade, Vcenter certificate renewal using CLI
- Provide technical guidance to other VMware administrators
- Managed infrastructure of Prism Central, Prism Element
- Migrated Server from Vmware to Nutanix using MOVE tool
- Contributed to the successful completion of numerous IT projects by providing expert VMware administration support throughout all stages of planning, implementation, and post-deployment maintenance.
- Safeguarded business continuity with regular backups, snapshots, and replication of mission-critical data across multiple sites.
- Utilized scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell to automate tasks when possible
- Performed regular maintenance activities such as patching servers
- Planned and implemented upgrades to system hardware and software.
- Improved data center efficiency with comprehensive virtualization solutions using VMware technologies.
- Developed training materials for end-users in order to ensure proper use of new systems and applications
- Led daily standup meetings with team members in order to review progress on active projects.
- Attended meetings to deliver status reports to key stakeholders.
- Enhanced system performance by optimizing VMware configurations and settings.
- Streamlined IT operations by automating routine tasks using PowerCLI scripting.
- Diagnosed and resolved hardware and software issues.
- Configured and tested Windows Server operating systems with roles features.
Vmware Administrator
Kyndryl
07.2019 - 03.2022
- Worked for LLOYDS Bank project
- Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of ESX 5.x, 6.x, vSphere vCenter 5.x, 6.x and vSphere Suite
- Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server, Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates, Configuration of Resource Pool, VMotion, Taking Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations
- Monitoring of Virtual machines (CPU, Memory and Disk Utilization), Building and Configuring hosts deploying them to existing environment, setting up Users and Groups, Upgrade Hosts and install security patches
- Enabling Site Recovery Manager on VM's, Configuring storage, Network mapping etc
- Managing and maintaining IAM policies for organizations in Vmware to define groups, create users, assign roles and define rules for role-based access to Vmware resources
- Create snapshots and amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances
- Established, Installed and managed ESX and ESXI 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 host in different model blade servers
- Created baseline on update manager and remediating ESXI host with latest Patch
- Configuring DRS, HA and EVC cluster, creating DRS rules for High utilization VM's, Configuring FT and required host configurations for critical vms
- Using VMware Powercli scripts for reports and capacity planning.
System Administrator
IBM Pvt LTD.
04.2015 - 06.2019
- Installing, supporting, and maintaining servers and planning for and responding to service outages and other problems
- Provided technical support to programmers
- Handled production, scheduling, and processing, as well as job abends and corrections, problem reporting, change control, and automation
- Ensured SLAs were met and serve as point of escalation
- Hands on experience of 3+ years as an operational professional, infrastructure development for Cloud Computing platforms for IBM
- A Competent Professional having experience in ~ Operations Management ~ Process Management ~ Client Relationship Management ~ Incident Management
- Excellent interpersonal skills with problem solving logical thinking and analytical abilities.
Education
B.tech(Mechanical Engineering) -
GIET
01.2010 - 04.2014
Skills
vSphere products (vCenter,Esxi,vSAN,SRM,vRops)
Nutanix Products (Prism Central, Prism Element, MOVE URL)
Troubleshooting & Problem Solving
System updates
Virtualization management
Multitasking Abilities
Problem-solving abilities
Python Basics
Locations
Rajahmundry, India
Timeline
Sr.IT Analyst -Vmware/Nutanix
TCS
04.2022 - Current
Vmware Administrator
Kyndryl
07.2019 - 03.2022
System Administrator
IBM Pvt LTD.
04.2015 - 06.2019
B.tech(Mechanical Engineering) -
GIET
01.2010 - 04.2014