Rajavijay Nelakanty
VMware Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Rajahmundry,AP
Summary
Cloud Engineer / VMware Administrator
Multi-faceted, efficient & reliable professional looking forward to work on Cloud Infrastructure in a challenging atmosphere with 6 years and 10 Months of experience in IT Infrastructure management
Overview
3
3
Languages
5
5
Certifications
4
4
years of post-secondary education
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Cloud Engineer / VMware Administrator
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
07.2019 - Current
- 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 Utilisation), Building and Configuring hosts deploying them to the existing environment, setting up Users and Groups, Upgrade Hosts and install security patches.
- Enabling Site Recovery Manager on the VM’s, Configuring storage, Network mapping etc.
- Worked on Disaster Recovery Exercises - DR Plan for Production Servers with client, Involved in Troubleshooting ESXi host and VM issues..
- Managing and maintaining IAM policies for organisations 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.
- Housekeeping and maintenance activities, Identify and analyse the issue for triggered alert, perform troubleshooting to resolve the same..
- Cloud Infrastructure and Application Monitoring to ensure high levels of performance and availability.
- Housekeeping and maintenance activities, Identify and analyse the issue for triggered alert, perform troubleshooting to resolve the same.
- Excellent communication and diagnostic skills; consistently solving problems and rarely escalate issues, communicating with vendors and interacting with them for troubleshooting.
- Updating Storage LUNs to VMFS-5 and VM hardware and VM-tools
- Configuring DRS, HA and EVC cluster, creating DRS rules for High utilization VM'sConfiguring FT and required host configurations for critical vms
- Using VMware Powercli scripts for reports and capacity planning
System Administrator
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
03.2015 - 07.2019
- 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
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Godavari Institute of Engineering And Technology
Rajahmundry 06.2010 - 04.2014
Skills
VMware vSphere Suite VMware vCenter 5x, 6xundefined
Accomplishments
VMware vSphere Advanced Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.7]
VMware vSphere 6.7 Foundations (09/2020)
Certification
Configuration Management System Administration
Affiliations
12/2019 - Present
Vmware
Configuration Management,System Administration, System Operations,Windows
2 years of experience VMware vSphere Suite and Cloud Infrastructure.
Vmware
Additional Information
LANGUAGES
English
Full Professional Proficiency
Hindi
Professional Proficiency
INTERESTS
Cooking
Singing
Travelling
Watching Movies
Responsibilities and Nature of Job
· Installing and managing ESX and ESXI 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 host in different model blade servers.
· Installing and managing vCenter Server 5.5, 6.0 and VCSA 6.5
· Worked on vCenter migration project, migrating windows vcenter 5.5 to VCSA 6.5 and upgraded all esxi to 6.7
on the environment.
· Creating baseline on update manager and remediating ESXI host with latest Patch
· Configuring Virtual Center Alert, creating roles with different permissions for multiple team to access Virtual Center
· Managing vCenter and ESXI host and VM's with virtual center alert
· Updating Storage LUNs to VMFS-5 and VM hardware and VM-tools
· 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
· Managing Incident Tickets, Change Request (CR) and Problem ticket for RCA via Remedy
· Handling server migration Projects i.e. From windows 2003 to windows 2012 R2
· Working with hardware team to add/replace the faulty peripherals, upgrading BIOS and firmware
· Working in disaster recovery fails over and plan business continuity using VMware site recovery manager
· vSan, Update manager, VMware Horizon view, vSphere Replication
· Creating new customer on the vCloud Portal and uploading Template to the vcloud catalog
· Creation of VM templates, deploying virtual servers using template, cloning of virtual server.
· Creating snapshots before change implementation & for testing purpose.
· Installation and up gradation of VM tools
· Using Thin Provisioning for all new VM servers
· Created clones from existing VMs
· Build servers for production and test environments
· Migration of Windows 2003 OS to Windows 2008 / 2012 as part of End Of Life
· Involved in monthly patching activities and hardware and firmware up gradation tasks
· Coordinating with Storage and Network team for issues related to VMware infrastructure
· Implementing day today changes like CPU & Memory upgrades, Hard disk addition to the VM’s.
Timeline
VMware vSphere Advanced Troubleshooting Workshop [V6.7]
04-2021
Cloud Engineer / VMware Administrator
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
07.2019 - Current
System Administrator
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
03.2015 - 07.2019
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Godavari Institute of Engineering And Technology
06.2010 - 04.2014
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