Bala Gopu

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About Bala Gopu

Experienced IT professional with over 7+Years of experience in Windows and VMWare Platforms. • Demonstrated excellence in leading enterprise-wide virtualization effort with accountability of overseeing vendor / hardware qualification, architecture / design, installation, configuration, migration & documentation. • Experience on windows, VMware Administration, Server Administrator. • Installation and Deploying Windows Servers 2008/2008R2/2012/2012R2/2016 in Physical and Virtual Environment. • Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center. • Upgrading the Server Builds. Worked with NIC teaming and Vlan tagging for redundancy and fault tolerance. • Worked with infrastructure including Server Hardware, VMware Environment, Data Storage, Switching & Routing, Backups, E-Mail, Firewall, Spam Filtering, AV, VPN, Mobile Devices, VOIP Systems, Network Monitoring and all Microsoft Technologies. • Excellent knowledge of server hardware, networks, infrastructure design coencepts, Database. • Worked with IT change management and problem Management. • Extensive experience on networking, IP addressing, DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, IIS. • Experience on Azure Services, O365 Administration. • Responsible for all AD, IIS, SQL, Load Balancing, NSG's, and VPN configurations for Azure. • Worked on Microsoft Exchange server and outlook issues. • Experience on Various Ticketing Tools (Service Now, Remedy, Microsoft ticketing tools). • Proficiency in installation & troubleshooting of Blade Server, Rack Servers, etc. viz. Dell, HP and Assembled. • Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center. • Built ESX servers and implemented complete integration with SAN for VMotion in a VMware DRS and HA enabled environment. • Perform full, incremental and differential backups of the servers on daily and weekly basis.