Vivek Sharan

Senior VMware Administrator

• Actively handling Windows and Vmware related day to day requests and requirements.
• Demonstrated proficiency in implementing VMware environments, including ESXi, vCenter, HA, DRS, vmotion and datastore using SAN architecture.
• Successfully driven VDI Infrastructure project right from the datacenter to virtual setup till the end user in production.
• Managing and successfully driving quarterly patching of around 700+ Esxi hosts in infrastructure.
• Successfully executed vCenter upgrade from version 7.0.3 to version 8.0.Update 3.
• Responsible for ESXi upgrades from version 7.0.3 to version 8.X. Driving this consistently with 100% compliance without any issue.
• Automating the day-to-day tasks using Powershell scripting. For eg. Upgrading vmware tools, VM Notes, VM hardware version, checking Esxi configuration.
• Good hands-on knowledge on Dell devices like Dell OME, Dell Secure Connect Gateway, Cisco UCS and Cisco Intersight.
• Successfully migrated Esxi hosts from UCS manager to Cisco Intersight.
• Datacenter experience. Worked with various engineers and vendors in setup of compute devices in datacenter like setting up of Dell servers, Cisco servers & Pure storage devices right from Rack mounting till production.
• Good troubleshooting skills both in Windows server OS and Client OS
• Able to figure out solution of the problem within a given SLA
• Helping SCCM team with deployments and updates installation related issues.
• Good hands-on experience in troubleshooting patching related issues and in remediating the vulnerabilities with tools like SCCM and Qualys.

AWS Cloud Admin

• Managed cloud infrastructure for 2.5 years, overseeing EC2 instances to optimize availability and scalability in both production and development environments.
• Provisioning and configuring EC2 instances and Elastic Block Storage(EBS) volumes.
• Created VPC configurations consisting of subnets, route tables, and internet gateways.
• Taking care of AWS Security Group for Inbound/Outbound Rules.
• Managed IAM for user, group, and role-based access control.
• Decommission of ec2 instances, creation of AMI backup.

VMware & Wintel Admin

• Migrating virtual machines and virtual disks from one Data store to another Data store.
• Taking snapshots, datastore storage extension and provisioning, creating port groups, affinity & anti-affinity rules.
• Doing hot & cold migrations, CPU/memory capacity management through VRops
• Worked closely with other vendors like McAfee, Microsoft, VMware and resolved various issues by continuously following up and working closely with the vendors

• Good Knowledge and hands on experience on Windows server 2008/2012/2016/2019/2022.
• Mainly responsible for Patch Management activity starting with Tivoli Shavlik, Microsoft SCCM and HCL BigFix Tool.
• Leading monthly Maintenance activity of around 3000 servers using Microsoft SCCM & HCL BigFix with a compliance of 98%
• Used Microsoft SCCM not just for Patching but for deployment of various software packages like HP-OMI, McAfee, etc with 95%+ success rate.
• Provided recommendations, provided various articles and created SOPs on improvements in terms of patching activity which improved overall compliance percentage.
• Worked with Server Build Team. As a part of server builds, created build documents and new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the Client.
• Well aware with the decommissioning of Virtual Servers, Physical servers & Host decommission.
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory and provided appropriate access to meet the requirements
• Involved in day-to-day task incidents and recommended changes to reduce problem reoccurrences.
• Troubleshooting skills from OS point of side by carefully observing Event logs & performance monitor.
• Knowledge of Active Directory. Involved in day-to-day basic tasks like user account creation, Group creation, DNS entry creation, account lockout issue, certificate management.

• Leading L1.5 Monitoring team and Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule
• Performed duties in accordance with all applicable standards; making sure incidents are acknowledged and delivered to respective teams within given SLA
• Based on the performance, promoted to windows & VMware infra L2 team