PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 14 + years of experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Consultant / Sr. System Administrator in administration, installation and support of VMware, Cisco UCS technology server hardware, software, peripherals, and networked systems for ESXi, Linux, Windows Server, proven success delivering LAN / WAN connectivity.
• Cloud implementation, VMware vSphere 6 infrastructure, vCenter, ESX Virtualization, EMC VNX and PURE SAN, Cisco Unified Computing System, Linux infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with Cisco UCS, Virtual Infrastructure on VMware, Installation, Upgrades and Patching.
• Worked on Cisco UCS Manager, UCS Central to build service profile and templates.
• Promoted local UCS domain to global domain and register to the UCS Central.
• Converted Cisco UCS local service profile to global service profile.
• Upgraded UCS domain firmware ver. from 2.2(3f) to 3.1(1e).
• VMware Infrastructure ESXi 6.x/vSphere Installation & Configuration.
• Design, Implementation, Testing and Deployment of VMware Infrastructure.
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.
• Customizing guest operating system on Virtual Machines.
• Server Consolidation with VMware Converter (P2P and P2V Conversions)
• Patch management using VMware update manager for ESX server.
• Strong foundation and experience in VMWare ESXi 6.x and Virtualization Technology, vMotion, Storage vMotion, vSphere Replication, HA, DRS, ESXi Cluster etc.
• Installed and configured vCenter 5.x with Optional Heartbeat 6.4
• Deployed and configured vSphere Replication Appliance for VMware SRM.
• Deployed and configured VMware SRM 5.8 for Disaster Recovery/Protecting VMs.
• Used HPOO (Operation Orchestration) tool to deploy VMs.
• Used HPSA HP Server Automation Client tool to configured VMs.
• Working knowledge of Power Shell, VB Script & batch files for automation work.
• Installed and configured Citrix XenServer and XenCenter.
• Windows patch management through wsus server.
• Installed configured Red Hat Linux / UNIX OS on physical/virtual environment.
• Installed and configured Oracle 10g.
• Installed configured SQL servers on clustered and standalone server environments.
• Active Directory maintenance of organization unit.
• Installed and configured IIS, DHCP, ADS, DNS etc.
• Implemented and Managed Clustering on Windows 2008 Server.
• Installed and configure SQL 2008 Cluster environment over Windows 2008 Cluster using DAS (Direct Attached Storage).
• Deployment, maintenance and support of production environment.
• Knowledge of SAN / NAS environment (EMC Clariion, NetApp)
• Analysis of project/business requirements and designing IT infrastructure for optimal performance.
• Extensive experience of monitoring and support tools.
• Adept in installation / configuration, troubleshooting of networking components.
• Knowledge of vShield Manager implementation and configurations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 2012 R2 / ESX 5.x/ ESX 6/ Citrix, Red Hat Linux / UNIX

Remote Management: UCS KVM Console / ILO / DRAC / VNC / RDP

Virtual Tools: VMware, vSphere, Virtual Center, Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco UCS Central, XenCenter

Oracle 8i/9i, 10g, SQL: Server 2008, MS Access

Monitoring Tools: MOM, BMC Blade Logic

Automation Tools: HPOO (Operation Orchestration), HP Server Automation

Security Tools: Symantec ESM

Design/CASE Tools: MS Project

Miscellaneous: IIS, ADS, DNS, DHCP etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Vmware / cisco Ucs Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building Cisco UCS Infrastructure environment.
• Provisioning of ESX servers and virtual environment using vSphere.
• Built ESX hosts / clusters on Cisco UCS Chassis HW.
• Built Cisco UCS domain's and configuration per Confidential standard.
• Worked on Cisco UCS Mini chassis and configured UCS Domain.
• Promoted local UCS domain to global domain and register to the UCS Central.
• Converted Cisco UCS local service profile to global service profile.
• Built Cisco UCS MINI domain for US remote sites (Chesapeake, Lancaster, Rocky Mount, Suffolk, Florence & Ontario)
• Configured UCSM Manager BootDeviceOrder, HostFirmware, Qos, LocalDisk Policies according to enterprise customer requirement and Cisco best practices.
• Configured UCSM MAC,WWNN/WWPN, UUID Pools according to enterprise customer requirement.
• Created ESX host templates local & global for Cisco UCS environment.
• Created SAN boot policies to use it in UCS global service profile template (GSPT).
• Created vNIC network template, VLANs (LAN Cloud) and tag VLANs.
• Created vHBA templates and attached to the global service profile template (GSPT)
• Created ESX gold images to deploy ESX hosts.
• Used Cisco B200 M3 and M4 series HW blades.
• Cisco UCS - daily administration & break/fix of 6248, 6296 and 6324 series FI’s.
• Storage allocation and validation as per project requirements.
• Entire Server platform hardware refresh from HP ProLiant to Cisco UCS standard/Mini.
• Configure, Manage HA and DRS enabled ESXi Clusters.
• Configured storage for ESX clusters.
• Upgraded VMware ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 6 version across the Confidential environment globally.
• Built upgrade ESXi hosts and cluster for global sites - Knowsley UK, Huckelhoven Germany, France & Italy.
• Worked with Datacenter facilities/vendor company in installation, setup and configure, troubleshoot server hardware.
• Hands on and comprehensive understanding of Booting ESXi from SAN, vCenter Server deployment options, vCenter server, Database, Hardware requirements.
• Configure and manage vCenter Server, vCenter Server Inventory, Licenses, Virtual Networks, vSwitch load-balancing policies, vCenter Server Appliance.
• Designing Virtual Machine templates and building Virtual Machines using templates, cloning existing VMs, creating and managing VM Snapshots.
• Ensuring the server builds are in compliance with Security Audit guidelines per Confidential satndard.
• Perform VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Performance monitoring of VMs & ESXi Servers using vCenter and other monitoring tools.
• Installed ESXi, Configure and manage the ESXi firewall, lockdown mode, integrate with AD.
• Migrate existing ESXi hosts and VMs from HP to Cisco UCS hardware environment as part of hardware Tech Refresh project.
• Provisioned Linux/Windows 2012 R2 /ESX servers.
• Patch management using VMware update manager (VUM) for ESX Server.
• Installed, configured Update Manager, Update Manager Plug-in, baselines, Scan and remediate to perform ESXi patching and host upgrades.
• Uploaded ESX patches and enic / fnic driver for Cisco UCS and created patch baseline for ESX hosts.
• Implemented VMware SRM environment and protect prod VMs.
• Implemented DR solutions using Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vSphere Replication, PURE, EMC VNX.
• Implemented multi-site DR solution based on VMware vSphere, EMC VMAX, EMC SRDF and EMC VPLEX.

Environment: Tools Used: VMware, ILO, ESX, ADS, Cisco UCS Central, Cisco KVM, VMware SRM etc.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building server infrastructure environment and automation.
• Provisioned of ESX servers and virtual environment using vSphere.
• Build ESX hosts / clusters on HP, Dell Chassis HW.
• Managed multiple vCenter Servers spread across different geographic locations hosting thousands of Virtual Machines.
• Storage allocation and validation as per project requirements.
• Configured storage for ESX clusters.
• Provisioned of Windows Enterprise 64-bit server on HP Blade as well as virtual machine.
• Pro-actively monitor ticketing system (Remedy) and resolve tickets within specified SLA
• Provisioned Linux/Windows 2012 R2/ESX servers.
• Patch management using VMware update manager (VUM) for ESX Server.
• Used kick start server to image Linux/Unix and ESXi OS.
• Administer RHEL/CentOS including troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues.
• Installed/Upgrades RPM’s and building packages.
• Installed and supported applications such as MySQL, Apache, Jboss, Samba & PostgreSQL etc.
• Performed updates and upgrades on the systems currently on the network for performance and auditing purposes for ESXi, Linux, Windows servers.
• Build, install and configure Enterprise Linux servers within a physical and virtual environment
• Datacenter Migrations - Physical moves and Critical Data Moves from different datacenter locations.
• Installed configured SQL servers on 64 bit clustered and standalone server environments.
• Handled hardware tech refresh project.
• Deployed virtual machine through HPOO flow (Automation Tool).
• Configured virtual machine thorough HPSA (Automation Tool).
• Worked on Quest One Active role for AD administration.

Environment: Tools Used: HPSA, HPOO, VMware, ILO, ESX, VMware, RDP, ADS, Cisco UCS etc.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Active member of server provisioning team for Confidential & Confidential ’s client across the globe.
• Responsible for building server infrastructure.
• Provisioning of ESX servers, building Cloud environment.
• Building of VMware Virtual Center for ESX clusters on HP Blade/Chassis/Dell HW.
• Provisioning of Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise 64-bit server on HP Blade/Chassis/Dell HW.
• Pro-actively monitor ticketing system (Remedy) and resolve tickets within specified SLA
• Experience with Cisco UCS, Virtual Infra on VMware, Installation, Upgrades and Patching.
• Working knowledge of Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
• Provision virtual servers for Confidential & Confidential and their clients.
• Provisioned Windows/ESX cluster servers.
• Installed configured Red Hat Linux / UNIX OS.
• Used kick start server to image Linux/Unix and ESXi OS.
• Troubleshoot production server’s issues.
• Installed configured SQL servers on 64 bit clustered and standalone server environments.
• Implementation of SQL Logins, Roles and Authentication Modes as a part of Security Policies for various categories of users.
• Oracle 10g installation and configurations.
• Patch management using VMware update manager (VUM) for ESX server.
• Windows patch management through wsus server.
• Handled hardware tech refresh project for Confidential & Confidential ’s client.
• Application/system monitoring through iLA monitoring tools, servers logs and VMware; analysis of Memory usage, CPU usage, Disk usage and Network usage etc.

Environment: Tools Used: BMC Blade logic, VMware, ILO, DRAC, ESX, VMware, RDP, DHCP, ADS, etc.

Confidential, NYC, NY

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Provide 24*7 supports for Data Centers of North America.
• Active Member of Data Center migration team.
• Successfully completed migration of 3 Data Centers in Greater New York Area.
• Migrations include physical as well as virtual servers across the NA.
• Coordinated with PM & App/Dev team to migrate applications in virtualize environment.
• Successfully decommissioned physical servers and data center equipment’s and sent for disposals to the vendor.
• Transitioned 35+ Applications to off-shore
• Active member of server patch management team.
• Manage third party Data Centers i.e. EQUINIX, NY and SAVVIS, NJ
• Manage Online Print Servers
• Pro-actively monitor ticketing system (Remedy) and resolve tickets within specified SLA
• Provide On Call Support (Production Environment) for their client
• Convert server P2V and V2V with the help of VMware tool
• Performed live VMs migration using XenMotion on Citrix XenServer.
• Created virtual machine on Citrix XenServer/XenCenter.
• Created Citrix XenServer VM Snapshots.
• Installed and configured IIS.
• Supported web application / application pools.
• Hosted website/internal wiki pages for internal system admin documents using IIS.
• Installed and configured Oracle DB server on Linux and windows environment.
• Provided oracle infrastructure support to the database team.
• Performed backup and restore data on prod and dev environment using NetBackup.
• Deployed of various applications on production servers.
• Hands-on experience writing / executing SQL queries based on project requirement.
• Experienced in creating and testing database ODBC connection with various applications.
• Up gradation of Enterprise level servers and applications.
• Supporting and coordinating SAN /NAS environment with storage team
• Application monitoring through MOM (Microsoft Operation Manager) and VMware; analysis of Memory usage, CPU usage, Disk usage and Network usage etc.

Environment: Tools Used: MOM, VMware, Dell KVM, RDP, DHCP, ADS, etc.

Confidential

IT Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure the Windows 2003 Server Cluster Network OS, Active Directory Services including overall administration, DHCP Server, SQL Server, routing, remote access, Network security, fault tolerance, and optimization of server and network resources.
• Project monitoring and status reporting, client liaison, analysis and design, onsite project coordination, development, maintenance, testing, documentation, implementation and user for UP & Uttaranchal region for IMMOLS (Integrated Materials Management Online System)

Environment: Tools Used: DSLAM, ADSL, OFC, ROUTER, SWITCH, SHDSL MODEM etc.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administration and configuration of Windows 2003 Servers.
• Configure and Maintain Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
• Schedule backup and supervise the technical team to restore the backup in-case of system failure.
• Deploy and monitor latest patches and service packs on servers.
• Implement project plan for Service Support and delivery.
• Manage and coordinate Knowledge transfer sessions within the team regularly.
• Installation, setup and Maintenance of active directory.
• Installed and configured SQL DB server on windows environment.
• Installed and configured Oracle8i.
• Installed and configured IIS.
• Administration of FTP Server.
• Manage Online Print Servers
• Ensure the servers & desktops are virus free. Update scan engine and version updates on weekly basis.

Environment: Tools Used: ADS, DHCP, DNS, RDP, IIS, FTP, etc.