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Venkata Subbaiah K

Venkata Subbaiah K

VMware Solution Architect
Bangalore

Summary

Offering unique blend of technical acumen and leadership potential, ready to learn and grow in challenging environment. Contributes to team success by swiftly acquiring and applying insights in VMware Cloud solution.

A competent and dynamic professional with 16 years of experience in the IT industry as VMware Architect & Technical consultant in VMware and Cloud Computing. Proficient in an assortment of technologies including Virtualization (VCF,NSX,VSAN,Aria suite,VMware, ESXi), AWS, Citrix, Windows. Keen interest in troubleshooting technical issues, identifying new techniques and in R&D. Extensively working VMware, Windows administration, and AWS cloud computing. Hands on experience with Deployment & upgrade complete VCF stack and VSphere. Advance troubleshooting end to end with VCF,SDDC,NSX,Vcenter,Esxi,Ariasuite & Tanzu. Root cause analysis on all major vSphere issues. Execute P2V conversions, V2V conversions for multiple Physical and virtual servers using various tools like VEEAM, VMware converter. Having knowledge of Microsoft Azure, SCCM, SCOM, VMWare Skyline,Salse Force,Wolken, Veem, Networker & AVAMAR snapshot backup, VEEAM backup. Working on Power Shell, Power CLI Scripting and creating scripts to minimize the user intervention. An effective communicator with excellent Interpersonal and Team Management abilities.


Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
2007
2007
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

Technical Lead & People Manager

Wipro INDIA
09.2018 - Current
  • Working as VMware consultant to deploy and upgrade the VCF
  • Deploying & managing the NSX, VSAN and Aria Suite
  • Worked as VMware Backline TSE representing Broadcom for all Major issues from vSphere
  • Handling all major technical issues & Technical escalations from customers
  • Working With GS lightning, Bugzilla, Lumber jack & dump analyzer tools
  • End to end troubleshooting on below vSphere issues
  • Vcenter: Failure, Upgrade issues, update issues, Week Ciphers, VCSA vulnerabilities, Linked mode, Vcenter HA, VCDB issues, VC space issues
  • Esxi: Failures, disconnect, PSOD, upgrade, update issues, Esxi installation & configuration, Esxi vulnerabilities, Esxi Week Ciphers, Esxi Space & Performance issues
  • Virtual Machine: VMware tools, Snapshot process, cloning issues, VM hung issues, VM corruption issues, VM performance & VMDK space issues
  • VSphere Storage: Storage disconnect, Lun failure, Datastore space issues, Storage access, Storage performance, Storage configuration, HBA drivers & firmware issues, Storage connectivity issues
  • VSphere Network: Network connectivity, Vswitch & DVswitch configuration, VLAN connectivity, port group configuration
  • Others: VSan related issues, HA & DRS issues, VCLS management, Lifecycle manager, Update manager, Content Library, vTPM issues, Secure boot, UEFI issues, P2V Converter issues
  • Major Project: Pitney Bowes, Nestle & VMware (Broadcom)
  • Managing end-to-end environment for Windows, VMWare & AWS
  • Technical advisor for all major issues for Windows & VMWare
  • First point of contact to Customer for all SLA & Escalations
  • Driving the team towards meeting the Customer SLA and completing the tasks
  • Handling all major projects Vulnerability, Migration and Compliance
  • Attending daily, weekly & Monthly calls with customers and providing updates about the environment
  • Handling Major incidents and submitting the detailed RCA
  • Attending problem management call and providing the analysis on the respective problem records
  • Involvement and executing Global DR activity
  • Analyze and understand the workflows of day-to-day activities and streamline to automate them with help of Automation team
  • Managing the monthly patching compliance accurately and providing monthly updates to customers
  • Participating in Monthly Security Compliance Audit and working towards fixing security risks
  • Monitoring and managing the resource utilization for VMware environment using EMC SRM and Windows using SCOM
  • Skyline integration, QRADAR integrations, Production DR test is key migrations to involve and executed successfully

Technical service specialist

IBM INDIA
02.2016 - 09.2018
  • Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of VM Ware ESXi 5.x,6.0, 6.5 Virtual Center, VI Client
  • Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates
  • Installation, configuration and administering windows 2003, 2008, 2012 servers
  • Upgrading ESX 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using VMware Update Manager
  • Physical to Virtual (P2V) / Virtual to Virtual migration using VMware Converter
  • Create virtual machines, install various operating systems (Windows 2003, 2008,2012 & Red-hot Linux) inside VM’s and install tools and configure these VM’s based on customer requirements
  • Managing & Troubleshooting issues on Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations, performance issues
  • Configured Resource Pool, VMotion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP
  • Configuring Network (Standard & distributed) switch, NIC teaming and adding different port groups to ESX & ESXi servers
  • Monitoring and managing the resource utilization for VMware environment using SPLUNK tool and RV Tools
  • Configuring the sys log server and backup of critical Esxi bundle for troubleshooting
  • Administering Domain Controllers and Active Directory
  • Managing DNS & DHCP issues on client’s machines and end users
  • Managing the print servers and creating queues & troubleshooting printer issues
  • Majority work with Major incidents and issue resolving within SLA
  • Mentoring the team on VMWare Estate and Technical point of contact for customer projects
  • Attending Daily stand-up meetings, Client meetings, technical discussions and provide daily updates & progress on projects to clients
  • Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting and troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs
  • Installing and configuring the ILO for Physical blade servers
  • Monitoring and Maintaining of the servers using IBM Tivoli monitor & HPOO
  • Share folder creation for users and managing through files server manager (DFS)
  • Work with Various hardware & software vendors to resolve problems
  • Troubleshooting the OS crash issues using Windows debugger tool and analyzing the dump
  • Helping in identification, planning, Testing and implementation of new technologies
  • Ensuring Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery are tested on regular basis with Correct Documentation
  • Major Project: H3G-UK, BOI (bank of Ireland)
  • Role: Subject matter expert & Tech Lead

Senior Systems Engineer

Fidelity Investments
11.2012 - 02.2016
  • Support for approximately 15000 Windows and VMware Servers
  • Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of VM Ware ESX & ESXi 5x,6.x Virtual Center, VI Client, windows 2003,2008,2012 servers
  • Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates
  • Upgrading ESX 5,5 to ESXi 6.x using VMware Update Manager
  • Physical to Virtual (P2V) / Virtual to Virtual (V2V – VEEAM TOOL) migration using VMware Converter
  • Performing the Virtual machine, Physical server build through Blade logic automation
  • V2V migration across global sites utilizing the traditional method and implementation of VEEAM tool migration
  • Creating iSCSI data store on windows 2008 storage server and adding data stores to ESX & ESXi servers, adding RDMS to Virtual machines
  • Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations
  • Manage Virtual Machines using Virtual Center and web access
  • Configured Resource Pool, VMotion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP
  • Exposure on VMotion migration, High Availability feature, DRS feature
  • Applying the host profiles and performs the ESXi compliance check
  • Setting VM priorities on CPU and Memory resources
  • Configuring diff VLAN’s in virtual connect manager and adding this to ESX & ESXi servers
  • Manage the ESX & ESXi server from Putty or SSH and Power CLI commands
  • Group Policy management in Windows server 2003 & 2008,2012 servers
  • Performing drive expansion, EOL hardware migration by using Veritas Volume manager
  • Performing VM Storage migration for End of Life and Decommission process for VM & Physical servers
  • ESX Hardware support, patching and maintenance
  • Performing the weekend patching, Storage migration for physical cluster servers using VERITAS cluster manage
  • Supported Change Management and Incident Management as per the ITIL process
  • Major Project: Platform hosting IM-India
  • Role: L3 Engineer

System Analyst (Level-F)

Accenture
05.2008 - 11.2012
  • AD, DNS, DHCP monitoring and support in Server 2003,2000,2008
  • Print Server and Terminal Server management in Server 2003
  • Patch Management for production servers through WSUS
  • Drive Incident closure as per the agreed target and ensure closure of escalated calls
  • Monitoring more than 350 servers and performing daily health checks
  • Creating and providing access to Users on servers locally and Domain wide
  • Taking required actions depending on the alert type by referring to the technical document
  • Connecting to the remote servers using RDP restarting of services of application depending on the request by the clients and severity of the alert
  • Responsible for backup of critical servers (Symantec)
  • Adding servers to the Domain and installing AD & components
  • Managing ESXI 4.x,5.0 ESX servers
  • Creating virtual machines using template and configuring the vm as per the client requirements
  • Performing simple vmotion and adding virtual disks, VLAN configuration
  • Managing standard switch and assign network to VM's
  • Handling PSOD issue for ESX servers through VMWare support
  • Regularly perform hardware and software maintenance
  • Installation of operating system, Installation of device drivers and application software
  • Working with Incident & Change management process
  • Installation of Citrix Presentation server 4.0/ XenApp 4.5/5.0 & Citrix Client Tools
  • Administration of Citrix XenApp Farms
  • Configuration of Citrix server policies, Load Management and Printers in the Farm
  • Expertise in creating Citrix Streaming Profiles and Publishing Applications to users in Citrix XenApp 4.5/5.0
  • Expertise in using Citrix Access Management Console and Presentation Server consoles
  • Installing Hot Fixes (Rollup Packs, Feature packs) released by Citrix on Citrix Meta frame presentation Servers through Installation Manager
  • Troubleshooting various user related issues while accessing Citrix web applications
  • Major Project: Shared Services, MHRA
  • Role: System Admin

Education

B. Tech -

Sri Venkateswara University

Skills

VMware Administration

Certification

VMware Certified Professional 8.0 (VCP-DCV)

Timeline

Technical Lead & People Manager

Wipro INDIA
09.2018 - Current

Technical service specialist

IBM INDIA
02.2016 - 09.2018

Senior Systems Engineer

Fidelity Investments
11.2012 - 02.2016

System Analyst (Level-F)

Accenture
05.2008 - 11.2012

B. Tech -

Sri Venkateswara University

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