SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of experience in the Information Technology with expertise in VMware administration and Storage Administration.
• Expertization includes Windows Administration, Virtualization using VMware and Virtual center management, Citrix Administration and Technical Support.
• Implemented and troubleshoot VMWARE ESX 5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0 environments Virtual center management, VMware Virtual Center Installation VM Infra client support.
• Experience in vRealize operations manager (VROPs),
• Responsible for day to day management of VMware ESX farms, including provisioning, patch management and issue resolution.
• Prepared Powershell and PowerCLI Automation scripts for Windows and Vmware Administration and reporting tasks.
• Extensive Tableau experience in Enterprise Environment in Tableau 9.x/10.x as a Developer, Administrator and Analyst
• Performed successfully physical to virtual and virtual to virtual conversions of physical/virtual machines using VMware Converter.
• Deployed key VMware ESX/ESXi technologies, expertise with HA/DRS, P2V. ESX migrations from 3.01 to 3.5 to VSphere 4.0/5.x
• Clustering inside VM’s for High Availability, Storage Allocation & Configuration for ESX
• Deployment of business critical technologies - VSphere View and VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager).
• Experience in using Azure and cloud Infrastructure.
• Expertise in design, implementation and supporting VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0/4.1 environment and Thin App, Lab Manager 4.0.
• Experience with VMware view 5.0/4.6 design and Virtual desktops deployments
• Extensive hands on experience with design and implementation of enterprise wide Virtualization Projects with VMware.
• Experience in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a service (PaaS).
• Experience in Installing and configuring HP C7000, CiscoUCS Blades, Compaq, and Dell Servers. Configuring RAID, Disk Mirroring, SAN Volume Expansion, Raid, SCSI Controller Installation
• Skilled experience in Python with proven expertise in using new tools and technical developments
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Centre servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager
• Coordination and interaction with dedicated global customers, Account Management and Infrastructure team to meet SLAs.
• Design and Implemented VMware SRM 5.0/4.1 in Proof of Concepts projects
• Extensive knowledge in installing, managing and supporting the Active Directory Environment
• Hands on experience in installation, configuration, supporting and managing hadoop Clusters using Horton works, Cloudera
• Experience with large number of P2V, P2C, V2V, V2C migrations using VMware/Platespin, doubletake P2V convertor tools and vCloud connector.
• Proactively monitoring customer’s network on 24x7 bases and updating them regularly.
• Proficient in designing, installing and configuring small, medium and large sized system infrastructure on different o/s platforms.
• Performed system administration activities, security policies and monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels
• Outsourced managed services include infrastructure and transactional based monitoring and alerting, outsourced security, network management and managed web hosting services.
• Reputation for dedicated teamwork, high-energy, work ethic, and commitment to customer service.
• Experience working on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), vSphere Client and setting up ESX in the virtual environment.
• Experience with Active Directory Administration, Disaster Recovery Planning, Remote Access, Office Products, Routers, Switches and Backup devices.
• VMware VDI (Horizon View) infrastructure deployment/administration
• Experience with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring, and Administering VMware ESX/ESXi. Created and managed VMs (Virtual Server) and also involved in the maintenance of Virtual Servers.
• Configuring and managing EMC Power Path solution for path failover, load balancing, path management and automatic I/O failure detections.
• Knowledge of Linux/HP/Windows O.S platforms.
• Smart thinking, strong interpersonal, management and excellent communication skills.
• Proficient in learning new technologies and quickly adaptable to new environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: vRealize operations manager (VROPs), vorchestration VMware ESX Server 3/3.5/4.x/5.x/6.0, VMware Player 1.0/2.0, VMware Converter 3.0, Virtual Center 2.5,4.0,4.1,5.0,5.1,5.5,6.0 SAPR/3, 4.6b, 4.6c, ECC 5.0/ 6.0, Citrix, MOM/SCOM, SMS/SCCM

Operating Systems: Windows 2008/2003/2000/ NT/7/Vista/XP, Unix/Linux (installation).

VMware Tools: ESX/ESXi Server 5.x/ 4.1/3.5/3.0/2.5 VSphere 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0 VMware converter 5/6 and VMware vMotion, sVmotion

Virtualization Tools: VMware ESXi 5.0,4.1/3.x, VMware Standalone Convertor, VMware View, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 6.0 (VDI), ThinApp.

Hardware: HP Proliant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL465c Blade Servers and Dell Power Edge Servers.

System Tools & Utilities: VMware Vizioncore Tools, PlateSpin tools, Virtual Center Admin Portal, vFoglight, vCenter Operation manager, VMware SRM

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, DNS, POP3, SMTP, and SNMP.Scripting Powershell, PowerCLI.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

System Admin/Tableau Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed VMware VSphere 5 and created virtual machines on ESX 5.5 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Designing and deploying multiple Tableau v9.x/10.1 dashboards across 3-tier environment sourcing from varied data sources such as SQL server, Hive, Flat files
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX 5.5 servers for server consolidation.
• Worked as Technical Lead on various infrastructure projects surrounding Servers consolidation, Physical to Virtual Migrations, Storage and Server Management.
• Responsible for the management of servers and duties include regular and proactive monitoring of servers, responding the alerts
• Used Python scripts to update the content in database and manipulate files
• Worked on Central Management Server (VCenter Server) to manage all the ESX hosts in the datacenter.
• Troubleshooting, Manage and review data backups, Manage & review hadoop log files
• Responsible for upgrading Tableau 9.x to 10.x
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Configure and maintaining the System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) and System Centre Operations Manager(SCOM) on the Windows 2003/2008 servers by deploying Enterprise and custom software’s on the servers and workstations and monitoring them.
• Deployed azure and cloud infrastructure for management of applications like cognos etc.
• Installed and Tested VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 5.0) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans
• Implemented successful recovery by VMware SRM and eliminated the complexity of managing and testing recovery plans
• Implemented View 4.0/4.5/4.5.1 and ThinApp 4.0 in production environment.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, Storage VMotion.
• Managed Company’s Active Directory Domain using best tools like Active Directory Modules for windows powershell, Quest tool, Power GUI editor, ADAC, ADUC, GPM tool, etc.
• Strong knowledge on PowerShell and Python scripting to automate the tasks across the systems.
• Provided planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading support for vRealize Automation & vRealize Orchestrator.
• Installed, upgraded and configured Tableau Server
• Created vRealize Orchestrator Workflows to automation tasks related to IT Operations (e.g. server shutdown, Disk clean-up, Service Restart, Resolve incident in Service, Take remote action).
• Did P2C and V2C using vCloud connector.
• Day to day administration tasks of windows server 2008 and 2012. Migrating and upgrading windows 2003 to 2008 and 2012.
• Developed tools to automate some base tasks using Python, Shell scripting and XML
• Virtualized Windows server Migration using VMware Converter, Platespin Power Convert.
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
• Build and maintained the 18 ESX Host VDI (Virtual Desktop Environment) for application testing on various OS platforms. Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware.
• Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines
• Design database using Erwin and Python /Django for DB scheme scripting
• Migrating users from workstations to virtual desktops (VDI)
• Monitoring the Cisco MDS 9506, Cisco Fabric Interconnects 6140, Nexus 5020 switches.
• Configured the standard cluster settings on vCenter clusters.
• Used VCloud director for deploying VM’s by far decreasing the overhead capacity in vCenter.
• Used VMware Hypericto monitor all the virtual machines across the VBlock environment.
• Installed CiscoB440 M2 and provisioned them for Oracle OVM.
• Used Cisco UCS 1.3 for managing Cisco B200 M2 and B440 M2 Blade servers.
• Configured windows clustering for vCenter server high availability.
• Wrote the strategy document to upgrade the existing VBlock 2.4 matrix to 2.4.1 and then on to 2.5Matrix.
• Wrote scripts in Python for extracting data from HTML file
• Worked on Tableau Server upgrades for new versions
• Worked with the VCE Technical support team, UIMP and UIMOps engineering team to fix the unknown bugs, Provided the logs to replicate the issues.
• Generating Reports and graphs on Performance of ESX Nodes
• Remote installation of ESX Hosts, Windows 2008 Servers using Raritan and Communicating with Network/Storage teams for Server Support.

Environment: Microsoft Windows Server 2008/03, Windows 8/7, and VMware ESX I 5.1/5.5/6.0, VMware Vsphere 5.1/5.5/6.0, VMware View, Tableau Desktop 8.x/9.x, Tableau Server 8.x/9.x, VDI, Powershell, PowerCLI Proliant Servers, HP Systems Insight Manager, And HP Virtual Connect. EMC VMAX, VNX

System Admin/Tableau Admin

Responsibilities :

• Installed VMware VSphere 5 and created virtual machines on ESX 5.0 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Responsible for deployment, Implementation and configuration of V-Block state-of-art by VMware, Cisco and EMC.
• Automation for execution of tests in batch using Shell scripting in Python
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX 5.0 servers for server consolidation.
• Worked as Technical Lead on various infrastructure projects surrounding Servers consolidation, Physical to Virtual Migrations, Storage and Server Management.
• Responsible for the management of servers and duties include regular and proactive monitoring of servers, responding the alerts
• Worked on Central Management Server (VCenter Server) to manage all the ESX hosts in the datacenter.
• Worked with the Linux administration team to prepare and configure the system to support hadoop deployment
• Implemented azure platform with Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) and Platform as a service (paas).
• Rewrite existing Python /Django/Java module to deliver certain format of data
• Created Powershell and PowerCLI scripts for automation.
• Powershell and PowerCLI Scripting for administration and automation tasks.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Extensive knowledge about 3000 windows virtue machines & 2000 Linux virtue machine running on azure.
• Installed and Tested VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 5.0) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans using Netapp FAS 3070 and FAS 2070
• Implemented View 4.0/4.5/4.5.1 and ThinApp 4.0 in production environment.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, Storage Vmotion
• Generated property list for every application dynamically using Python
• Virtualized Windows server Migration using VMware Converter, Platespin Power Convert.
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines
• Monitoring the Cisco MDS 9506, Cisco Fabric Interconnects 6140, Nexus 5020 switches.
• Configured the standard cluster settings on vCenter clusters.
• Used VCloud director for deploying VM’s by far decreasing the overhead capacity in vCenter.
• Integrated different tools like SAS, Tableau, SSRS with hadoop, this way users can pull data from HDFS hive
• Used VMware Hypericto monitor all the virtual machines across the VBlock environment.
• Installed CiscoB440 M2 and provisioned them for Oracle OVM.
• Implementation of SRM 4.0 on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution for VMware Vsphere Environment, vSphere Linked Mode and replicated storage, Configuring Sites Roles and Privileges, Alarms for monitoring the Site Status. Failback Testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and Shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites
• Huge Experience using VMware converter (75 % virtualized) running different applications with Different Hardware.
• Wrote scripts to make some of the upgradation process automated, few of the VMware steps and UCS steps automated using PowerShell and PowerCLI.
• Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Linux Red hat and SUSE and VMkernel Linux appliances.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates, and many more…
• Building Windows 2008 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines.
• Database Upgrade for vCenter and update manager from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 on 2 vCenter Servers
• Building VM’s and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project
• Generating Reports and graphs on Performance of ESX Nodes
• Remote installation of ESX Hosts, Windows 2008 Servers using Raritan and Communicating with Network/Storage teams for Server Support.

Environment: Windows 2003/2000/NT Servers, Active Directory, Tableau Desktop 8.x/9.x, Tableau Server 8.x/9.x, DNS/DHCP/IIS 5.0, 6.0 Server, Windows XP/Vista, VMware ESX, Printer Server, Powershell, PowerCLI.

System Administrator/ Tableau Admin

Responsibilities :

• Installation and configuration of ESX servers and VM virtual servers using VM-templates to facilitate server consolidation, migration and testing.
• Analyze performance of physical servers to determine and customize virtual server specification Deployment of VM Templates to deploy virtual servers.
• Migration of virtual machines from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0.
• Developed web based application using Django framework with Python concepts
• Installing patches and software upgrades recommended by security scan.
• Expertise in thin provisioning, VMFS expansion, RAID technologies.
• P2V & V2V conversions using System center virtual center manager 2007.
• VMware tool up-gradation at host level and VM level.
• Good experience working with HP EVA virtualization adapter.
• Server bang light fixing once every month.
• Clear up of orphaned vmdk files periodically to clean up memory.
• VM migration across cluster level using v2v, Mount file option and SCP.
• LUN path mapping and keeping track of VM’s along with their datastores.
• Worked on day on support troubleshooting client’s problems.
• Implementation of Host Profile in development cluster.
• Used BMC Remedy 7.0for the change management and Incident resolution.
• Documented and build the low-level design document on the VBlock environment.
• Provided 24/7On-call for the VBlock Environment
• Provisioned CiscoB200 M2 blade severs using UIMP 2.1 version.
• Performed datastore migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapps NFS, EMC CLARiiON SAN Storage
• Generated Python Django forms to maintain the record of online users
• Experience with Cisco UCS 5048 chassis and Blades B200 M2 administration.
• Responsible for deployment, Implementation and configuration of V-Block state-of-art by VMware, Cisco and EMC.
• Experience with HP blades C7000 and C3000 server models
• Implementation Of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
• Experience of Storage Migration on 1650 VM’s (Fiber channel Upgrade from EMC DMX-3 to DMX-4)
• Implementation of SRM 4.0 on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution for VMware Vsphere Environment, vSphere Linked Mode and replicated storage, Configuring Sites Roles and Privileges, Alarms for monitoring the Site Status. Failback Testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and Shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites
• Huge Experience using VMware converter (75 % virtualized) running different applications with Different Hardware.
• Wrote scripts to make some of the upgradation process automated, few of the VMware steps and UCS steps automated using Perl and PowerShell.
• Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Linux Red hat and SUSE and VMkernel Linux appliances.
• Build, configure and deploy Virtual Machines and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Linux Servers and Windows Servers. Managed Virtual Machines Using VMware vSphere.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates, and many more.
• Building Windows 2008 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines.
• Database Upgrade for vCenter and update manager from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 on 2 vCenter Servers
• Building VM’s and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project
• Good experience in working on Vshield manager.
• Good administration command on vsphere using Linux commands.
• Enhancement of virtual environment from 30% to 70%.
• Capacity planning for entire campus once every month using Vkernel tool.
• Wrote scripts to rename VM’s and create VM’s using Perl, Python and PowerShell.
• Implementation of EMC power path LUN path monitoring tool.
• Capacity planning of virtualization world using Vkernel tool.
• Experienced in migrating and importing virtual machines.

Systems Engineer/ Administrator

Responsibilities :

• Identified Servers which were consolidated for virtualization using VMware Capacity Planner tool
• Preparing the Project plan & VMware ESX setup Implementation plan.
• VMware ESX server Hardware setup in all sites with HA/DRS Clustering/Vmotion.
• Networking setup with the port group and VLAN trunking on the ESX server and Physical switches.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting vSphere performance: CPU, memory, disk/storage, and other issues.
• Involved in planning and design of Site Recovery Manager Environment for disaster recovery.
• Experience in troubleshooting issues during Site Recovery Manager Implementation.
• Performed ESX host 2.5 migration using VMware Converter and migratory to ESX 3.5
• Performed physical to virtual migration using vConverter.
• Monitored VMware environment and performance using vFoglight and Virtual Center Admin Portal (VCAP).
• Installed / configured / maintained Windows 2000 Server / Windows 2003 environment.
• Supported day-to-day issues in Windows 2000 Server / Windows 2003 environment
• Preparing the Technical document of the complete setup and VM environment standardization
• Used Cisco UCS 1.3 for managing Cisco B200 M2 and B440 M2 Blade servers.
• Configured windows clustering for vCenter server high availability.
• Wrote the strategy document to upgrade the existing VBlock 2.4 matrix to 2.4.1 and then on to 2.5Matrix.
• Worked with the VCETechnical support team, UIMP and UIMOps engineering team to fix the unknown bugs, Provided the logs to replicate the issues.
• Used BMC Remedy 7.0for the change management and Incident resolution.
• Documented and build the low-level design document on the VBlock environment.
• Provided 24/7On-call for the VBlock Environment
• Provisioned CiscoB200 M2 blade severs using UIMP 2.1 version.
• Performed datastore migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapps NFS, EMC CLARiiON SAN Storage
• Experience with Cisco UCS 5048 chassis and Blades B200 M2 administration
• Experience with HP blades C7000 and C3000 server models
• Implementation Of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
• Experience of Storage Migration on 1650 VM’s (Fiber channel Upgrade from EMC DMX-3 to DMX-4)
• Experience in resolving ESX related technical issues from the host console.
• Performed a thorough Health Check on VMware Infrastructure using VMware Health check tool