Silpa Donepudi
Conroe,TX
Summary
To seek a challenging career that encourages creativity and provide exposure to achieve professional and personal growth along with the organization. Dedicated and adaptable professional with a proactive attitude and the ability to learn quickly. Strong work ethic and effective communication skills. Eager to contribute to a dynamic team and support organizational goals.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud Migration Engineer
Microsoft
08.2015 - Current
- Daily face-to-face connects with multiple clients to demonstrate about Azure Migrate Tool
- Developed migration strategies utilizing Azure Migrate Tool to assess on-premises workloads
- Configuring the Azure Migrate appliance at the source infrastructure
- Conducted assessments of on-premises environments using Azure Migrate to gather performance data, dependency mapping, and suitability analysis for cloud migration
- Utilized Azure Migrate for capacity planning, including resource utilization analysis, right-sizing recommendations, and cost estimates to optimize workload performance and cost-efficiency in Azure
- Preparing the Migration Plan based on the produced assessments
- Presenting the Migration Plan strategy and all the related information to the client for the approvals
- Creating the landing Zone at Azure Cloud which is required for Migrations
- Performing the migrate readiness for the in scope servers like validating the target details like Vnet, Subnet, resource group, Vm size etc
- Enabling the server replications through Azure Migrate Tool
- Performing the migrations on the cut-over day to Azure Cloud
- Performing the post migration checks like boot diagnostics, disk resizing, network settings etc
- Handover the migrated servers to Application team to validate the application performance.
Rio Tinto
- Migrating on-premises VMware and Hyper -V Application and standard database Virtual machines to Azure Using Azure Site Recovery and Azure Migrate
- Deploying Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks and Subnets and various Azure resources that are required for Migration
- Deploying and configuring Azure Load balancers and network related resources
- Setting up azure account, virtual machines, azure policy, azure security groups, resource group, and firewall, azure monitoring services and various azure storage types
- Enabling Alerts for the servers as part of Monitoring
- Creating Landing Zone at the Target region
- Enabling Backup for the servers
- Creation of Availability sets, proximity placement groups
- Paas migration from one subscription to other subscription
- Deploying App service creation, App service Plan, App service environment, key vault, Application Insights, Storage accounts, SQL database, Function App, Key vaults using classic deployment and through ARM templates
- Deployment of all required Azure resources using terraform.
AFG
- Administration and troubleshooting of VMware ESXi, VCenter server and its components
- Design, implement and maintain VMware vSphere infrastructure
- Good knowledge on HP blades, dell, Cisco UCS systems and software defined infrastructure
- Migrate VMs across hosts with a HA cluster to perform maintenance tasks on ESXI hosts
- Evaluate new products and performs updates and upgrades
- Failed over windows cluster resources from active nodes to passive nodes in a cluster environment for scheduled maintenance and emergency changes
- Responsible for managing server related incidents or requests and change requests in windows and VMware
- VMware Daily Checks which includes Vcenter health and troubleshooting the issues
- Managing and maintaining of physical servers in the environment
- Knowledge on Active directory, DHCP, DNS related activities
- Management of Users, groups and security permission and File and folder permissions activities
- Installing and configuring several Server commissioning and decommissioning.
VOYA
- Managing VMware infrastructure environment for more than 500 ESXi servers &2000 plus Virtual Machines
- Installing, Configuring & Managing ESX Servers & Virtual Center Server
- Administration and troubleshooting of VMware ESXi, VCenter server and its components
- Monitoring and responding to alarms and alerts on VCenter
- Troubleshooting various kinds of network, storage, and Host and VM issues
- Configuring & Managing HA & DRS Clusters
- Resource management among VM’s in HA cluster & DRS
- Upgrading ESXi Host using Update Manager
- Applying critical Patches to all the ESXi hosts when required in the environment
- Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations
- Converting existing physical servers to virtual servers and V2V
- VM Servers build & rebuild (Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM) as per the client request
- Managing storage including storage provisioning, adding volumes, maintenance of servers & troubleshooting problems in environment
- Troubleshooting issues like, ESX host disconnected or not responding, ESX host memory & CPU degradation, Space issues with data store, VM machines not responding through remote etc
- Creation of vSwitches (Standard and Distributed)
- Setting up Alarms for various Reasons
- Configured Email notification for various alarms in VCenter
- Monitoring performance of hosts & virtual machines
- Troubleshooting with ESXi server hardware issues (PSOD)
- Analyzing the VCenter and ESXi host logs to diagnose the root cause of the problem
- Updating VM’s tools and hardware version using VCenter update Manager
- Generating Snapshot report, ISO mount report and VM’s details using RVTools
- Worked for Storage reclamation and deleted Unused Data stores, ESXi Host & Build Upgrades, ESXi Host Firmware Upgrades.
Nestle
- Administering ESX, ESXi& vCenter using vSphere Client& Web Client interface
- Migration of Live Virtual Machines using vMotion & Storage vMotion, troubleshooting issues relating to vMotion such as compatibility issues
- Managing virtual machines, Creating & managing resource pools
- VM cloning and troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Guest Windows O/S
- Managing CPU & Memory resources
- Monitoring performance of hosts & virtual machines
- Implementing and maintain DRS, SDRS and HA
- Setting up Alarms for various Performance Reasons
- Migrating Virtual Machines using sVmotion & Cold Migration
- Run RVTools and monitor the VCenter status
- Based on the requirements taking snapshot and full back up without stopping VM
- Updating VM’s tools and hardware version using VCenter update Manager
- Manage Task, events and troubleshooting VM related issue in VMware end
- ESX Troubleshooting, Monitoring virtual machine & ESX server performance
- Coordinating with ITIL Team on Incident, Change and Problem management calls
- Remote Management of Win2k & Win2k3 servers (4000+ servers)
- Patch management – To keep the systems up to date from the Latest Vulnerabilities addressed by software vendors like Microsoft
- Ensure that project deliverables are met, and project time is maintained.
Standard Life
- It is a Greenfield approach, created the target environment for Production and DR and consolidated the existing environment
- Installation of ESXi host & configuration, creation of cluster, adding hosts to cluster and applying Host profile
- Creation of vSwitches (Standard and Distributed)
- Apply critical Patches to all the ESXi hosts when required in the environment
- Implementation and configuration of Zerto for migrating huge vm workloads across DC’s
- Creation of around 1K Virtual Protection Group for migrating ~8000 VMs in Zerto and migrated to target Environment
- Created SOPs and documented Handbook for migration
- Performed server builds and OS upgrades and build the target environment and performed the migration
- Develop powerCLI scripting for automation like assigning VM tags, Security tags and security groups to the VM’s in the target
- Organizing migration plans and environment upgrades
- Migrate the specified workload to the target environment, check its consistency, and troubleshoot for any compatibility issues
- Performed quality check for the migrated servers
- Review the migration methods regularly and update the Standard Operating Procedures.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Engineering
Chatrapati Sahuji University
Kanpur Skills
- Datacenter Technologies
- VMware vSphere 55
- VMware vSphere 60
- VMware vSphere 65
- Server Hardware
- Cisco M5 C240
- Cisco M5 C480
- Cisco UCS
- Dell
- Cloud Migration
- Azure Migrate
- Azure Site Recovery
- Zerto
- Plate spin
- Carbonite
- VMware Standalone Converter
- Operating Systems
- Windows- 2012/2016
- Linux- Red Hat Linux 75
- Cloud Technologies
- Microsoft Azure
- Scripting
- PowerCLI
- PowerShell
- Terraform
Certification
- ITIL V3
- VMware Certified Professional - Datacenter Virtualization
- Platespin Migrate 12
- Nutanix Platform Professional (NPP 5.0) Certification
- Microsoft Azure Administrator
- Microsoft Azure Associate
Timeline
Cloud Migration Engineer
Microsoft
08.2015 - Current
Rio Tinto
AFG
VOYA
Nestle
Standard Life
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Engineering
Chatrapati Sahuji University
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