Surender Gowda

Background

About Surender Gowda

Currently working as an Storage Engineer at HPE. Primary skills possessed in job : Storage fundamentals, SAN technologies, 3PAR, Alletra, Nimbe, Primara products. Previous Experience working as Windows and VMware administrator for a Life science project Extensive knowledge as a Windows server Administrator, VMware Expertise in VMware and windows server related issues and troubleshooting. Able to focus on specific tasks, keeping overall project goals in mind and Eager to learn new technologies and methodologies.*Involved in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA's.*Providing and maintaining user access in vCenter server and maintenance of vCenter server.*Migrated VMs across hosts within a HA cluster to perform maintenance tasks on ESXi hosts *Worked on various issues with like ESXI host down,Power outages and other hardware issues.*Monitor server hardware, performance, and up time and respond to outages promptly *Work with network, storage and Database teams to implement applications on VMware based virtualization infrastructures. Worked on Windows server related issues as per the incident priority.*Scheduling patches through SCCM *Deployed many virtual machines as per the user's request.*Creation of changes for new Vm build, Decommission requests and any other urgent changes.*Created change requests for major activities in production server and get it approved from CAB/TRB meetings *Handling the CAB call for the Change approvals.*Created several RCA's for high priority incidents and worked as per client satisfaction.*Worked on Local Admin Audit reports