PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of IT experience and gained expertise in systems - Windows and Linux administration and transformed traditional environments to virtualized environments with VMWARE.
• Professional experience of 4+ years in virtualization technologies like VMWARE, VDI and 6+ years on windows and Unix (mainly Linux) and 5+ years on storage technologies.
• Proficiency in installing and configuring VMware vSphere 6.0, 5.x/ 4.x and VMware VCenter 6.0, 5.5, 4.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, vDS, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN.
• Extensive experience in working with vMotion and Storage vMotion technologies.
• Strong experience in configuring HA and DRS on clusters and using EVC mode as needed.
• Provided systems administration support to physical Windows and Unix environments for various web, application and database
• Expertise in design and Implementation of Windows, VMWARE environments on Cisco UCS, HP Blade Servers, Dell Power Edge series.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, MS Exchange 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint.
• Well versed with Storage technologies, All Flash and Hybrid storage arrays of multiple vendors configured, and integrated virtual and physical environments for high performance and availability.
• Implemented Disaster Recovery Solutions of physical and virtual environments using various local and remote replication methodologies - like VMWARE SRM, SAN Based Replication like - EMC Recover Point, SRDF, HP Remote Copy.
• Strong knowledge and working experience on Citrix Xen Desktop, VWMARE VDI environment supporting user environments.
• Performed Data Center Migrations, OS version upgrade projects on Windows, Unix, VMWARE, storage platform refresh projects, POC’s.
• Worked on a project to upgrade vCenter from 4.0 to 5.5 across three Data Centers.
• Worked on P2V and V2V conversions using VMware Converter and Platespin.
• Worked on Data Center Decommission and Data Center Migration projects to migrate 4000 virtual and physical servers.
• Worked on a project to upgrade vCenter Operations Manager to vRealize Operations Manager.
• Experience in Active Directory such as Domain Controllers, editing Domain users and Groups, Organizational Units, and Forest Functional Level.
• Worked on a project to upgrade Domain Controllers from W2K8 to W2k12 and upgrade the domain function level from .
• Experience in enabling VSAN on a cluster, creating manual disk groups, assigning storage policies and scaling VSAN cluster with additional hosts.
• Experience of installing, upgrading and configuring UCS B250M2, UCSB230M2, UCS B200M2 and UCS C200 Rack-mount servers in UCS 5100 chassis and configuring the Cisco UCS 6100 Fabric interconnects.
• Experience working with Hyper Converged management solutions such as HP OneView and UCS Manager.
• Experience working with Cisco M81KR VIC card, UCS 2104 Fabric Extenders and Cisco UCS 6248 series Fabric Interconnects.
• Experience in configuring Nexus 1000v VSM and VEM modules, Nexus 5548 and Catalyst 3500 management switches.
• Highly experience in LAN/WAN networking architecture and TCP/IP protocol stack, wireless networks, Cloud computing concepts.
• Configured default gateway, add/remove static routes and dynamic routing protocols (OSPF) on NSX Edge Logical Distributed Router.
• Experience in distributed Firewall Services, Strong working knowledge of installing and supporting DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS environment.
• Administration of production Windows Servers infrastructure that includes Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers, File and Print and FTP/SFTP servers.
• Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using SCOM, HP SIM and Dell Open Manage.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Server OS: Windows 2008, 2012, Windows 7, 8, Mac OSXRed Hat Enterprise Linux, Cisco IOS.

Scripting: PowerShell Scripting, Python.

VMWARE: VMware ESX, ESXi 4.1/4.0/5.0/5.1/5.5, vCenter, vCO, vCAC vCloud Director, SRM, Double-Take, PlateSpin, vConvertervCOps, Citrix XenDesktop 7.x, VMware View 5 and ThinApp.

Hardware: Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis, HP C7000 Chassis, Dell M1000E Chassis, Cisco UCS C & B Series, HP ProLiant DL & BL SeriesDELL PowerEdge, Cisco 1000v, 1800, 2600, 2800, 3800 Routers.

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, DHCP, SNMP, WINS, DNS, NFS, NIS, LDAP, SMTPiSCSI,NFS, FC, FCOE.

Storage and Backup: SAN, NAS, (Dell, EMC, NetApp, Hitachi and HP) ComvaultNetworker, Avamar, Data domain, Veeam. Automation vCenter Orchestrator, PowerCLI, PowerShell, PowerTool.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

VMware Administrator

Confidential, Franklin lakes, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Administered VMware Infrastructure ­ vSphere/vCenter/VDI environments by running over 125 ESXi Hosts and 3000 Virtual Machines
• Supported Production, Development and Test environments by supporting day to day maintenance activities of virtual environment.
• Installed and tested VSphere 6.0 to enable Hybrid cloud architecture and implanted open stack in test environment.
• Deployed Vcenter Operations Manager (VCOPS), leveraging its capability for proactive monitoring of health of the entire virtual environment.
• Designed and implemented a cloud solution for internal customers, based on VMware vCloud 5.
• Took part in a Proof of Concept of Cloud Automation Center, building and configuring all components, adding automation to virtual server provisioning.
• Installed and tested vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations(VROPS), to enable cloud orchestration layer for Software Data Center model in test bed.
• Managed and support VMware vCloud Center and VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) in Customer pre-production environment.
• Installed and configured CISCO UCS Blade servers and troubleshooted issues on it.
• Managed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) VMware View 5.0 by configuring VMware View Composer, View Connection Server, View Agent and View Client.
• Configured Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere Environment using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) integrating with storage-based replication.
• Integrated VMWARE with EMC backup technologies for image-based backups which take advantage of change block tracking feature on VMWARE.
• Enabled VSI plugins to view storage in vCenter for better path management and storage visibility.
• Analysis of existing shell scripts, determination of required functional changes, modification, testing, and implementation of script changes.
• Updating UCS firmware, drivers through policies & commission/ decommission of blades and chassis. Creating policies and building SAN boot blades servers.
• Performed Hardware and Software maintenance of VMware ESX/ESXiHost Clusters, Servers and Virtual Machines.
• Performed Daily Monitoring of System performance, capacity & managed Inventory adjust System configurations to accommodate required loads and functionality.
• Experience with Physical System (rack/stack, cabling, hard drive replacement, hardware upgrades) also Installed, Configured and Supported Cisco UCS servers
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, implemented vMotion and Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager
• Created and managed Virtual Machines, Installed VMware tools, Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual Machines; including deploying link Clones using View Composer. Assigned dedicated/floating Pools as per requirement.
• Installed and configured windows Azure and Amazon web services in test environment.
• Utilize SCOM system management tool to monitor infrastructure health.
• Troubleshoot failed ESXi host connections, and virtual machine connections.
• Used powerCLI to modify configurations and perform basic operations like managing.

VMware and Windows L3 Administrator

Confidential, Cary, NC

Responsibilities:

• Design, Installation, configuring and support of new vSphere 5/5.5 ESXi servers with HP C7000 blade system and Cisco UCS.
• Deployed vCloud Director 5.5 in the vSphere environment.
• Install/Configure and troubleshoot VMware vCloud Director and administrating multiple labs and test environment.
• Providing resource allocation and deployment via vCloud Director.
• Implementation, support and monitoring of the Cisco UCS environment.
• Upgrade the whole HP Blade Chassis environment to latest versions including upgrading the HP Flexfabrics (VCM) to 4.0 firmware.
• Upgrade and stabilize the VI from ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.5 U1 using VUM and host profiles.
• Linked different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance of vSphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment.
• Configuring High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Host profiles, Storage profiles, Standard Switch and vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS).
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Install, troubleshoot and administer Windows 2003 and 2008 R2 Servers.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Design, Implement, Troubleshoots and Support Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) based on VMware View 5.x built on vSphere ESXi 5.x hosts.
• Manage Desktop pools, user’s entitlement and Windows 7 image on VMware View environment
• Deployment of Windows 7 and Windows XP pools for different internal and external clients.
• Deployed automated/manual linked clone and persistent desktops with floating and dedicated assignments.
• Implemented the creation of templates for Windows 2007 taking snapshots and implementation of linked clone pools.
• Setup and manage Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, GPO, Folders redirect.
• Manage user application virtualization with VMware ThinApp and Citrix XenApp.
• Identify and push patches and software packages to the persistent desktops using SCCM.

VMware and Windows L3 Administrator

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Responsibilities:

• Installing, Configuring and Managing VMware ESXi 4.5/5.0 Server and Windows 2008/2012 servers.
• Installing vCenter Server, vSphere Client and Web Client for operations and management.
• Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks, Storage, Memory and processers for the Virtual Machines.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines using templates and images, and building production ready VM’s
• Monitoring and managing performance of vSphere ESXi servers and Virtual Machines.
• Experience in adding NFS storage and iSCSI storage to vSphere hosts.
• Implemented Virtual Machine cold clone and hot clone procedure while cloning the VM’s.
• Implemented Virtual Machine cold migration and hot migration procedures.
• Configured Resource pools and Shares in VMware Environment for Prod, test and dev environments.
• Experience in configuring customized alarms in vCenter server for data store usage, host CPU and Memory usage.
• Implemented storage vMotion to migrate VM’s from HP EVA to EMC VMAX, VNX storage.
• Maintain and administer all virtual backups with EMC Avamar/Data Domain Backup and Recovery technology.
• Create and manage maintenance process procedures for Vmware version updates patches on all ESXi Hosts. Ensuring seamless failover and testing during maintenance tasks.
• Report on VM improvements, and make recommendations for the upgrades, which includes VM virtual hardware versions, and VMware Tools with less business impact.
• Develop and implement processes to streamline management and VM builds within our ESXi environment.
• Integrated EMC storage array VNX, VMAX with vCenter server using VSI plugins, and enabled VAAI and VASA.
• Participate in strategic planning and guidance of ESXi environment, which includes various sites, and DR solutions including SRM and VSphere replication.
• Management, monitoring and troubleshooting of physical server environment using Dell Open Manager, Firmware and Bios updates and working with respective hardware vendors for ordering troubleshooting.
• Enabled monitoring and alerting of virtual environment with the utilization of Solarwinds VM Monitor, vCOPS and various other monitoring tools.
• Provide on-call support for server infrastructure or application failures resulting in the need to engage on-call IT personnel.

VMware / Linux System Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured ESXi 4.x infrastructure environment for Data Center migration.
• Performed physical to virtual (VMware) Migrations for over 180 servers using VMware Converter Standalone.
• Managed and maintained virtual computing environment based on VMware and administered virtual windows and Linux operation systems.
• Create templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Center permissions.
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Creating and managing resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Perform Life Cycle Management for ESXi hosts. Worked on capacity planning and management of Virtual machines in VMware environment.
• Managing and maintaining Linux running servers in same environment.
• Install / Configure VIO servers as well as configuring virtual Ethernet shared Ethernet (SEA), virtual SCSI and NPIV on IBM Power 6 and 7 systems.
• Administration of Red Hat Linux DNS, Web Server.
• Building software packages on Red Hat Linux (RPM)
• Troubleshooting issues related to NFS, SSH, NIS, DNS, FTP, VMWARE, NETBACKUP, VERITAS (VCS), ZONES, LVM, RAID, File System, Permissions, Performance Monitoring, IP Bonding, Multipathing, NAS, SAN, Storage, V-Center, Opsware etc.
• OS Rebuild and automate the processes.

System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuring of new vSphere 4 ESXi servers for the P2V candidates on Dell 1000 E chassis with M910 blades .
• Automating and building the Windows 2k8 servers using BMC Blade Logic Automation tools.
• Day to day administration and troubleshooting the issues related to Windows Servers.
• Administering, troubleshooting and automating vSphere ESXi using Power CLI.
• Design and Implemented and configuring of new ESX servers for the P2V candidates.
• Identified P2V candidates and prepared the infrastructure for the 1200+ P2V migrations.
• Involved in Installation, configuration and testing of Platespin Migrate and Power Recon.
• Consolidation and Capacity planning of Physical Servers using Power Recon.
• Architected scalability and sizing of servers for P2V migrations using performance traces and Plate Spin Power Recon .
• Conducted process planning, knowledge transfer, and resource management to expedite migrations and reduce P2V failure rates.
• Thorough planning was done for downtime, knowing each server usage & their placement in Datacenter.
• Experience with Datacenter relocation projects and SAN Replication migrations.
• Execution of Platespin Portability Suite jobs as documented process.
• DNS change/Re-pointing validating activities as a part of the migration
• Migration of 300+ servers from different data centers were moved to Centralized Data Center using Platespin Portability Suite.
• Migration of Windows servers from VMware ESX3.5 to VMware ESX 4.0 Farms
• Refreshed the physical servers as part of P2P with Platespin Portability Suite.
• Preparation and validation of the migration workbooks before the migration job is setup.
• Technical documentation on the diagnostics procedure and process documentation on troubleshooting, configuration .