BALRAJ B

+91- 9573800641
Balraj23vmware@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE:

To pursue a career with organisations having a global vision that encourages

creativity and offers an opportunity to learn and develop both in professional and personal
life, wish to use and enhance my technical knowledge and ability to work in-groups.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Having 4.7 years IT experience as a VMware Administrator and Wintel Administrator.

 Troubleshooting the issues like C: Drive, Sever unreachable and RDP issues.
 Worked on user raised tickets these can be resolved in change request with Vendor like
extending disk size, Memory failure, motherboard crash.
 Resources utilization analysis (High Memory & CPU ).
 Disk & Data stores issues (Low disk space in Drive C: D: E: etc... and Data Store Low disk
space).
 Remote Server Administration through Remote Desktop Connection manager.
 Managing virtualization Environment using VMware ESX/ESXI 5.x and 6.x, Virtual
Center, vSphere client, vSphere web client.
 Installation, Configurations, Administration and Troubleshooting of ESXi 5.x and 6.x,
Virtual Centre, vSphere Client and update manager.
 Creating and Managing Virtual Machines with Template.
 Creating Cluster with High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
features.
 Expertise in monitoring VM’s & ESXi host servers using Virtual Centre.
 Migrating VM’s using vMotion and Storage vMotion, Performing Snapshots, Cloning
Cold Migration and Hot migration.
 Configuring Alarms and scheduled tasks.
 Hands on migrating P2V & V2V migrations using Standalone Converter Tool.
 Experience in upgrading Virtual Machine Tools by Update Manager.
 Expertise in Installation, configuring of Windows Servers OS’s 2003, 2008 & 2012 and
doing post build activities before delivery.
 Provided first level help desk support for problems relating to Active Directory.
 Expertise in Windows 2012 Active Directory server administration.
 Providing Temp Admin access to users as on demand.
 Good experience on Data Centre power maintenance activity.
 Hands on working with Hardware tickets and communicating with vendor support.
 Co-coordinating with different teams and vendors for resolving issues within the SLA.
 Experience on configuring data store to ESXi server using SCSI, iSCSI or LUNs.
 Responsible in using Service now Ticking tool for resolving incidents and change requests
raised by users.
 Creating and Managing resource pools, Setting Reservation, Shares and Limits.
 Resolved P1 & P2 tickets.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION:

 Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) from JNTU.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Severs : HP ProLiant DL 360, DL 380, Synergy BL 460C G10.

Server OS : Windows 2016/2012/2008/2003/2000.
Virtual : VMware ESX, ESXi 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.5/6.7
Client OS : All Microsoft Operating Systems
Monitoring Tools: Zen OS tool
Ticking tools : Service now tool (Snow).

WORK EXPERIENCE:

 Working as VMware & Wintel Administrator in Cognizant Technology Solutions

(CTS) from August 2015 to till date.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Organization : Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd.

Project : Washington Gas Limited
Duration : August 2015 to till date.
Job Designation : VMware & Wintel Administrator
Roles & Responsibilities:
 Managing different infrastructures (Data Centre with around 7,000 + Servers) and
Managing VMware infrastructure with 610 + ESXi hosts, 9000 + virtual machines
globally.
 Checking the tickets and assigning to the group to resolve within the SLA.
 Troubleshooting the issues like C: Drive, Sever unreachable and RDP issues.
 Worked on user raised tickets these can be resolved in change request with Vendor
like extending disk size, Memory failure, motherboard crash.
 Resources utilization analysis (High Memory, High CPU).
  Disk & Data stores issues (Low disk space in Drive C: D: E: etc... and Data Store Low
disk space).
 Remote Server Administration through Remote Desktop Connection manager.
 Troubleshooting the issues like C: Drive, Sever unreachable and RDP issues.
 Monitoring health of environment through monitoring tools for errors/crashes.
 Installing configuring & trouble shooting of ESXI Servers & virtual centre Installing,
Configuring and managing virtual infrastructure and virtual centre.
 Creating and managing virtual machines and installing the Guest Operating system
& installing VM Tools into VMs.
 Upgrading CPU and Memory of VM’s based on requests.
 Importing and exporting the virtual machines.
 Managing VM’s using VMware virtual centre and virtual web client.
 Configurations of Virtual switches and VLANS.
 Creating templates from VMs and deploy VMs from templates and allocate
resources.
 Creating duplicate VMs using cloning technology.
 Experience in upgrading Virtual Machine Tools by Update Manager.
 Consolidating the Data centre.
 Creating and managing VMware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster.
 Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server
resources between virtual machines.
 Moving physical machine to virtual machine using P2V converter.
 Migrating the Virtual Machines using V-Motion.
 Moving VM from one data store to another data store using Storage V-Motion.
 Managing users, groups, permissions and roles.
 Changing disk mode to exclude virtual disks from snap shot using the Snap shot
Manager.

Organization : Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd.

Project : VCM
Duration : August 2015 to December 2015.
Roles & Responsibilities:
 Installing different flavours of Windows Servers 2003, 2008R2, 2012 and doing post
build activities.
 Monitoring, managing and reporting daily, weekly and monthly server status.
 Installing, configuring and troubleshooting Active Directory.
 Creating, managing and troubleshooting group policies.
 Installing, configuring and Maintaining DHCP.
 Perform Security Health Check of Windows servers and other compliance.
 Providing Active Directory access to users as on demand.
 Remote Server Administration through Remote Desktop Connection Manager.
 All the new Software’s / Hardware’s / Upgrades / Patches / Service Packs are tested
on the test environment to ensure that the production is not affected.
 Co-ordinating with vendor, desktop team, enterprises team, network team and
security team to resolve issues.
 Root Cause Analysis of problems occurring on servers with the help of Events Logs.

DECLARATION:

I hereby declare that above information is true and correct to my knowledge and belief.
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