Srikanth Darla
Summary
To pursue a challenging career in an organization that gives me tremendous scope for professional improvement, an opportunity to contribute back to the organization and the professional with best of my knowledge / abilities.
An articulate and well-presented associate Consultant and VMware systems Administrator with 4 years of experience, communication skills, organizational skills, strong customer service skills, and analytical skills. Working as an associate Consultant with Digital Insights for a Healthcare Customer – INTEGRIS HEALTH, OK. Worked as a System Administrator for AMERICAN EXPRESS in Phoenix, AZ. Worked as System Administrator in AVISIRAH LIMITED in HYD, INDIA. A problem solver with an excellent track record, having experience in performing diagnostics and resolving customer technical queries over the phone, via email, and one-on-one. An excellent team player, task-oriented team worker, and ability to adapt new technologies to enhance career and personal prospects.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Systems Administrator (VMware/Windows)
INTEGRIS HEALTH
06.2023 - Current
- Deploying Pool VM’s and Individual VM’s to the end users by using VMware View Admin
- Cisco UCS Infrastructure Firmware Upgrades (UCS Manager, Fabric Interconnect (FI), IOM’s) and Server/Blade Firmware Upgrades as per RCM - release certificate metrics
- Area of expertise is VMware and Windows Administration
- Upgrading Cisco MDS, VMware vSphere / ESXi / VCneter from 6.5 to 6.7
- Co-ordinate with vendors for decommissioning of Virtual Servers and Desktops
- Managing and Administration of Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 Servers
- Managing both Virtual and Physical Windows servers
- Managing Virtual environment and physical environment using various tools
- Administration and Troubleshooting of Physical and Virtual Windows servers
- Managing C drive and other drives space issues
- DELL EMC ECS – for Object and Backup archrivals, Configure PowerScale (Isilon) Cloud pools with ECS
- Scheduling snapshots and replication for protection groups in PURE STORAGE
- Experienced data migration from different Storage arrays to Pure storage using Cirrus Data Appliance
- RDM LUN migration from old storage to new storage with minimal downtime using Open replicator from the SAN side
- VM migration from old storage datastore to new storage datastore using SVmotion without downtime, Consistency Group management, Replication management between datacenters using RecoverPoint technology
- Planning and executing Migrations using SVmotion
- Planning, preparation, configuration, and execution of Switch migration and port migration of SAN/FC/Fiber channel Switches, Cisco MDS, Brocade, Dell EMC Connectrix-B
- Data center operations and engineering works
- Monitoring server and storage performance, troubleshooting and resolving hardware, network, and performance issues.
VMware Systems Administrator
AMERICAN EXPRESS
- P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, Plate Spin
- Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Blade Servers C7000 and C3000
- Hands-on experience in updating/upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers, and windows virtual machines using VMware Update Manager and manual upgrades
- Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup
- Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS)
- Periodic update of patches, drivers, and firmware for all our Global ESX hosts
- Configuring and Managing Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP
- Provide server and client support for all issues such as logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity, DNS and name resolution, and authentication problems
- Managing VMs by vSphere Client and Web Client
- Cloning, and deploying new VMs from Templates for different types of guest OS like Windows 2K3/2K8, Red hat Linux
- Creating virtual NIC cards for the respective VMs and assigning the network connections
- Building new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client
- Experience in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates
- Experience with hot and cold clone process.
Systems Administrator
AVISIRAH LIMITED – India
- System administration support involving server build, installation, configuration and implementation on Linux (Red Hat & SUSE)
- Allocating necessary space requirements for oracle database
- Server Virtualization using VMware for Red Hat Linux
- Installing, configuring, and administering DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, FTP, SFTP, VPN and NIS
- Installing and supporting SQL server and Oracle database
- Worked with Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to create file systems, volumes in efficient manner and troubleshoot
- Providing day-to-day user administration like adding or deleting users, password aging
- Regular disk management like adding/replacing hot swappable drives on existing servers/workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems in SAN switch
- Creating and resolving user’s access issues (Role access, FTP etc.)
- Creating Oracle case and coordinating with hardware & application team to resolve the system hardware issues and break-fix
- Monitoring the ticket queue all the time, working on the tickets and resolving them within the time frame
- Handling system dependencies and binary file management
- Creating maintlog and inform the higher management to inform the unplanned server outages and planned change activities.
Education
M.S in Computer Science -
Sacred Heart University
Skills
- VMware: VMware Vcenters 7x, 6x with ESXi 7x,6x,5x, Cisco UCS
- Cloud Platform: AWS – EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, VPC, Networking
- Virtualization: VMWare, ESXi, vCenter, Vxrail, vSAN, DELL IDRacks
Certificates And Training
AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate|VMware certified professional
Timeline
Systems Administrator (VMware/Windows)
INTEGRIS HEALTH
06.2023 - Current
VMware Systems Administrator
AMERICAN EXPRESS
Systems Administrator
AVISIRAH LIMITED – India
M.S in Computer Science -
Sacred Heart University
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