Chandra Shekar G Email & Phone Number

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Team Lead:-Providing support to 50+ Datacenters with 180+ HCI nodes on DELL iDRAC servers.-Collaborating with Linux, Windows and Firewall team for smooth support.-Onboarding new Datacenters, DC migration/upgrade activities, Sundown the clusters as per customer requests.-Managing a team of 5 members for Infra support on Nutanix Hybrid cloud with VMware virtualization.-Involving as a point of contact for Infra support in all client meetings and migration activities.-Handling entire Infra inventories of Assets masters, Clusters and domain with all licenses and certificates information.VMware Virtualization:Working Knowledge on Deploying Virtual Machines by using template on VMware vSphere Client.Working Knowledge of VMotion & SVMotion.Creating resources pool, Template & Clone in Virtual Center.Installing, Configuring & managing VMware 6.x & 7.x.Migrating the Virtual Machines from one host to another host by using V Motion techniqueConfiguring Resource Pool, Alerts, and AlarmsIncreasing Disk Space to meet client Requirements.Working with Templates and Clones & Deploying Virtual Machine from Templates.Creating/managing HA and DRS Clusters and implemented FT.Patching ESXI Servers.Addition of Disks, CPU, and Memory as requested.Decommission of VM’s.Adding, Deleting and checking unauthorized Administrator access in vSphere.Nutanix:*Installation of Nutanix Foundation.*Configuring Controller VMs and Prism central servers.*Installing and upgrading of AOS versions in Prism servers.*Running NCC health checks.*Applying and reclaiming Licenses to AOS and Prism Central VMs.*Generating CSR and server key files to renew SSL certificates.Windows Server Administration:*Managing a Domain controller with all the Active Directory components included for each datacenter (Production and Development)*Managing and creating active directory objects based on the requirements.*Managing and creating the group policies.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Project: Quaero360 (A Liquid Analytics Project)Domain: VMware Infrastructure Admin, Windows, Backup and Replication, Insights Dashboard, IISVMware Administration:* Manage an environment of Quaero360 with two Data centers (Production and Development) with 4 clusters and more than 500 VMs together.*Working on vCenter version 6.5 and 7.0. and ESXi's with version 6.5 and 7.0.*Managing vCenter activities respective with daily operations and quarterly updates/upgrades applied.*Updating/upgrading ESXi clusters twice an year with latest patches.*Working on DR activity once in an year*VM activities - vMotion, Storage vMotion, Snapshots, vCPU RAM and Disk management.*Troubleshooting VMs, vCenter server and ESXi server in L2/L3 level.*Troubleshooting the network issues obtained by vLAN, vSwitches and vDistributedSwitches.*Working on monthly volumetric reports and maintaining master inventory sheets for each Data center.QlikSense:Installing Qlik server software in windows platform.Creating Streams and groups in AD as per the application team requirements.Applying database connections.Scheduling tasks for dashboard refreshments.Configuring TNS entries for DB connections.Refreshing dashboards in 3 tier architecture process.Importing vizlib extensions as per apps team requirements.Providing usage reports on individual dashboards/client/users/session.Other General Management tasks irrespective of technology:*Troubleshooting Domain and LDAP/LDAPs issues.*User management tasks and providing accesses to users.*Applying licenses to all the devices.*Basic troubleshoot will be done for any HARDWARE issue and will engage the respective vendors raising P1 issues*Applying/renewing SSL certificates.*Remediating vulnerabilities by fixing the issues based on criticality.*Maintaining an audit report for each and every tasks done to show the operational work.QlikSense and QlikView Administration are done.Replicating all VMs from Production to DR site daily.

Hyderabad Area, India

Job Role: Service Delivery SpecialistProject: Zeus IndiaDomain: VMware vCenter L1, Windows L1, Backup administrator L1/L2Technology and Tools: Virtualization (VMware vSphere, vCenter), Server Administratrion (Windows Server) Backup and Storage (Netbackup, EMC Avamar, Symantec Backup Exec and Commvault)VMware:  Working on vCenter 6.0, 6.5 and 7.x versions. Working on Incidents and alerts generated. Managing large environment with HA/DRS configured cluster. Troubleshooting the VM unresponsive issues. Performing cloning of servers as per the user requests. Migrating the VMs. Increasing the drive capacity from the storage to avoid capacity issues. Adding LUNs to the hosts. Have good knowledge on vStandard Switch and vDistributed Switch. Working on VUM for Upgrades, Patches etc. Addition of Disks, CPU, and Memory as requested. Decommission of VM’s. Adding, Deleting and checking unauthorized Administrator access in vSphere.Windows Server: Working on Windows 2008/2012/2016 Servers. Working on Tasks, Incidents and work order requests. Managed user accounts using Active Directory 2008/2012 to create new domain accounts, provide controlled access to existing network shares. Troubleshooting the drive issues. Monitoring of Filesystems space, capturing Network usage, Log files & File System errors and Scheduling system tasks. Rebooting the servers as per the change. Participating in P1 & P2 issues Installing the software as per the user requirement. Modifying the DNS records like Alias, Host name etc., Knowledge on FSMO roles, Trusts, Forests and Sub-Trees. Have good knowledge on IIS servers. Have good knowledge on DNS, DHCP, WDS services. Server decommissions. Co-ordinating with other teams in finding the physical path for any restoration. Maintaining Anti-Virus & Backups for the servers.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Job Role: System AdministratorProject: North America Leveraged accountDomain: Backup monitoring team L1/L2Backup Tools: Netbackup, EMC Avamar, Symantec Backup Exec and Commvault* Taking backups from different platforms (Windows, LINUX, UNIX, NDMP, VMware etc.) with Differential, Cumulative and Full backups.* Taking backups of Applications like Exchange, Oracle DB, SQL etc.* Initiating the Manual backups upon requests.* Monitoring the Backup failures.* Restarting the failed backup jobs as per the schedule and priority.* Working on retention policies.* Providing file level restore to the clients upon requests.* Working on monthly metrics report for each client.* Daily backup reports for stand-up meetings.* Tape management activities. Such as (Sending filled up tapes to off-site and replacing the slots with full capacity tapes with long term expiry dates) * Supportive for 24/7.* Strict adherence to SLA’s and security policies.