Professional Summary:

• 7 years of IT experience, specializing in planning, designing, installing, configuring and administering converged infrastructure.
• Experience in VMware based Datacenter virtualization solutions, Private Cloud Implementations/Operations, Virtualization Management, Converged Infrastructure Platform, Business Continuity and Enterprise level EMC Storage Solutions.
• Deploying and Supporting Enterprise scale VMware vSphere based Virtual Infrastructures.
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP C7000 Blade server Environment with VMware vSphere5.5
• Designing and configuring of vSphere and VDI View environments and worked on Upgrade Projects.
• Implementing vCenter Operations Manager for performance and capacity management of the private cloud.
• Excellent backup and recovery skills focusing primarily on performing disaster recovery and data migration related activities.
• Experienced in managing large scale environments using VMware, Vblock, VCloud Director, EMC Storage and Cisco Switches.
• Experienced in ESX ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Experienced in vSphere 5 and vCenter.
• Experienced in resource management framework, creating resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Experienced with the VMware HA,FT and VMware DRS.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMotion, Storage vMotion, VM Lab Manager and vCenter and VMware Orchestrator.
• Experienced in VM Snapshots and Templates.
• Implementation of VCloud Director, vShield Director.
• Ability to implement VMware's Virtual Switch technology port aggregation, NIC teaming, VLAN trunking and port groups.
• Excellent Knowledge on Vblock Architecture, UCS Compute, MDS- Switches, Nexus Switch.
• Successful deployment of Cisco 1000v VSM with vSphere 5.
• Experience with Service Profiles and UCS Manager.
• In-depth knowledge on Vblock Storage like EMC VNX and VMAX.

NDMP backup configurations.

• Configuring various Tape libraries such as Quantum I Scalar, STK, VTL using Data Domain, EDL and CDL, SILO, HP MSL 6000 Series, Dell Power Vault -110T, 132T 136T Tape Libraries, IBM 3584/3592 LTO Libraries and NDMP Auto-changers.
• Configuring and administering Data Domains.
• Upgrading Data Domain OS.
• Configuring Data Domain Replications.
• Managing Data Domain File systems, M-trees, NFS, CIFS and VTL Libraries.
• VM backups using EMC Networker, EMC Avamar and Net Backup.
• In-Depth Knowledge on Installation, Patching and Troubleshooting Windows XP, 2000, 2003, 2008R2.

Delivery Assurance - Quality Focused Process Oriented:

• Ability to work in high-pressure environments delivering to and managing stakeholder expectations
• Application of structured methods to: Project Scoping and Planning, risks, issues, schedules and deliverables.
• Strong analytical and Problem solving skills.
• Good Inter personnel skills and ability to work as part of a team. Exceptional ability to learn and master new technologies and to deliver outputs in short deadlines

Technical Skills:

Work experience

Confidential

• Installation, configuration and Administration of VMware, Windows, and Red hat Linux servers.Responsibilities:
• Building, testing and managing of VMware vSphere 4.x 5.x
• Working with IDC, storage network team to troubleshoot networking issue
• Configuring BIOS RAID 0, 1 0, 5 and 6 as per client's needs
• Building ESX, ESXi, Hyper V, Red Hat 5.x 6.x using PXE and Kickstart
• Installing and configuring of vCenter 5.0 with Heartbeat 6.4, vCenter 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 servers.
• Create and Configure Virtual Machines, cloning and created Master Templates to create new virtual Machines.
• Physical to Virtual Migration using VMware and Hyper-V tools.
• Implementation and troubleshooting of vSphere Farm on ESXi 5.x platform
• Creating Host profiles to automate ESX configuration.
• Configuring and troubleshooting of HA, DRS, distributed switch, Clustering, vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Configured and tested HA/DRS, Licenses, NTP, HP Management, DNS.
• Creating test VM to test HA and vMotion on the cluster.
• Creating Cloning, Snapshots Management and Templates on regular basis.
• Implementation of VCloud Director, vShield.
• Deployment of vFabric Application director.
• Deployment of vFabric Data director.
• VCE Vblock Infrastructure provisioning, reconfiguration and decommissioning using EMC UIM.
• Advanced Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting across all layers of the Virtual infrastructure.
• EMC VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management for ESXi, Linux RHEL Windows hosts.
• EMC Power Path installation and configuration for Storage Path load balancing.
• Planning implementation of scheduled changes per change management policies.
• Configure SNMP based monitoring alerts on all Vblock infrastructure elements.
• Configuring Hyper-V hosts virtual networking, storage, cluster and Hyper-V VM's high availability.
• Applying patches using update Manager or manually to ESX/ESXi hosts.
• Configuration of Vblock 300/320, UCS compute, storage configuration.
• Provisioning storage to the blade servers for the ESX installation.
• Zoning, LUN Masking and Mapping.
• Configuring Virtual Machines on the Vblock.
• Administering Vblock using UCS Manager, AMP.
• Service Profile template create and deployment.
• Configuring Nexus 1000v switches and MDS- SAN Switches.
• Implemented Disaster recovery site for production site.
• Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX servers.
• Performed Virtual Machine creation, VM Configuration changes and Cloning.
• Performed storage and virtual machine migration using hot and cold migration type.
• Performed health check for the existing environment.
• Troubleshooting issues related to ESX host, vCenter, HA, DRS and VMware update manager.
• Worked with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
• Involved planning and implementation of migration process
• Pre-migration, Migration, Post-Migration and validation check list.
• Tested different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM's.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM versions and Data store to VMFS 5.
• Worked with various internal and external IT groups to allocate resources to perform P2V conversion scheduling.
• Migrated Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter P2V Converter .
• Worked on Storage related daily Change Request activities.
• Have experience in NAS-NFS, NAS-CIFS and SAN storage administration.
• Configuring Qtree, Quotas for NFS and CIFS clients.
• Managing iSCSI Networks.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.0, Vblock 300, EMC VNX 5700, Cisco UCS, Nexus N1000v, Nexus 5548, UCSM, VCloud Director, AMP.

• Experience in vSphere 5.5 Administration ,Design and Upgrades of large environmentsResponsibilities:
• Deploy and Manage VCloud Automation Center based private cloud for self-service provisioning and lifecycle management of VM services that comply with established business policies.
• Worked on Extensive VDI View 5 Implementation and Deployments.
• Extensive Experience with Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory /DNS/DHCP .
• Worked on Windows SQL 2008 Active/Passive and Active/Active Clustering Administration.
• Experience with Datacenter relocation projects with hudeP2V/V2V migrations
• VCAC integration with vCenter and Cisco UCS endpoints to provide both virtual and physical cloud services.
• Implement VCAC workflows to allow tenants to order, deploy, modify and decommission VM's from a list of published Machine Blueprints in the service catalog of the tenant's business group.
• Design and Implement Cisco Unified Computing System UCS platform in private cloud environments.
• Configure backend vSphere, Compute, Network and Storage platforms to provide multiple service classes based on performance and availability in the VCAC private cloud.
• Design and implement vCenter Operations Manager VCOPS for performance and capacity management of the private cloud.
• Create VCOPS custom dashboard specific to VCAC business groups allowing Tenant administrators to view resource utilization of their organization.
• Designed and implemented SRM for the enterprise Disaster Recovery, replicated data and successfully tested the failover and failback for DR
• Analyzed and monitored virtual infrastructure using vCenter Chargeback
• Planned and implemented vCenter migration from vSphere 4.0 to vSphere 5.0
• Perform P2V and V2V migrations of windows and Linux servers.
• Deploy VCloud Director based private cloud to provide a self-service IT portal where Infrastructure as a Service can be consumed from a catalog of predefined applications.
• Implement VCloud Director to tenants to deploy vApps from templates, modify virtual machine hardware, take VM snapshots, delete vApps and provide visibility into current allocated and available capacity.
• Configure Provider Virtual Datacenters with different performance and availability capabilities to provide multiple service tiers in the private cloud.
• Implement VCloud Organizations to segregate production and non-production workload.
• Create Organization Virtual Datacenters with different compute allocation policies to provide VM's with high, medium and low CPU/Memory reservations.
• Configure External Networks, Organization VDC Networks, and Network/IP pools in the VCloud environment. Configure VCloud Catalog storage for vApps template and OS installation media.
• Implement vSphere Storage profiles and VASA to provide multiple tiers of storage with a single VCloud Provider Virtual Datacenter.
• Implement VCloud Director through clustering and load balancing across multiple VCloud Director Cells.
• Implement VMware Site Recovery Manager in the VCloud environment for automated Site to Site disaster recovery of the production VMs.
• EMC Recover point implementation for Continuous Remote Replication of Tier 1 VM data.
• Installing Site Recovery Manager SRM Server on the Source and the DR site and Integrating with respective vCenter.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.0, SRM 5.0 Array replication, Cisco UCS, Nexus N1000v, Nexus 5548, UCSM, Recover Point, EMC VNX 5500.

Role VMware/UCS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementingSiteRecovery Manager for automated disaster recovery of virtual environment.
• Implementing EMC Recover point for Continuous Remote Asynchronous Replication of production data.
• Installing Site Recovery Manager Server on the Source and the DR site and Integrating with respective vCenter's.
• Implementing and managing Block based VNX storage system in VMware virtualization environment.
• Installing, Configuring and Managing Cisco Unified Computing System UCS platform for vSphere Infrastructures.
• Installing and configuring Recover point using Deployment Manager.
• Integrating SRM with the backend recover point using SRA adaptor.
• Implementing and Configuring recover point Production Volumes, Production Journal, Replica Copies, Replica Journal, Consistency Groups, Replication Sets, Replication priority and other settings.
• Configuring SRM Resource mappings, folder mappings, network mappings, protection groups and data store groups.
• Creating and configuring Recovery plans and Recovery network options.
• Planning and executing non-disruptive Disaster Recovery testing by creating isolated network bubble at the DR site.
• Managing SRM based protection in a highly dynamic environment ensuring newly deployed Tier1 VM's are protected and on replicated data stores.
• Manage all aspects of vSphere environments.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management including Raid Groups and Traditional LUNS, Pools and thin LUNs, LUN Migration, FAST VP, FAST Cache, Storage groups, Host Initiator registration.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.0, SRM 5.0 Array replication, Cisco UCS, Nexus N1000v, Nexus 5548, UCSM, Recover Point, EMC VNX 5500.

Role Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured VMware ESX/ESXi 5.0/4.1 Hosts.
• Upgraded of vCenter Servers /ESXi hosts from vSphere 4.0, 4.1 to 5.0
• Upgraded VMs hardware components according to the vSphere requirement.
• Worked on SRM 5.0 deployment and configuration of DR site.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM versions and Data store upgrade to VMFS 5.
• Deployment of vFabric Application director.
• Deployed VM appliances from OVF templates.
• Performed storage and virtual machine migration using hot and cold migration type.
• SAN space allocation for ESX hosts.
• Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX server.
• Troubleshooting issues related to ESX host, vCenter, HA, DRS and VMware update manager.
• Disk Space increase using VMware converter and importing of virtual server using VMware converter.
• Performed LUN management, MetaLUN's, RAID groups, storage groups.
• Planned and implemented High availability Disaster Recovery on Datacenters using Site Recovery Manager 5 SRM5 .
• Worked with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
• Implementing and managing Block based VNX/VMAX storage system in VMware virtualization environment.
• Installing, Configuring and Managing Cisco Unified Computing System UCS platform for VMware Deployments.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management including Raid Groups and Traditional LUNS, Pools and thin LUNs, LUN Migration, FAST VP, FAST Cache, Storage groups, Host Initiator registration.
• VNX Storage Array monitoring and advanced performance analysis of its Storage Processors, frontend ports, LUNs, Pools and physical disk using Unisphere Analyzer.
• Managing/troubleshooting Cisco UCS.
• Deployed, provisioned the shared NFS storage for ESX servers and virtual machines.
• Assigned LUNs to the Hosts Windows, Solaris, Linux .
• Configured VADP VM backups using Networker.
• Configured Snapshot backups using Networker.
• Disaster Recovery, planning and Management.
• Migrated Tape based backups to Data Domain.
• Escalation Management PIR preparation, handling Escalation Calls.
• Root Cause Analysis.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1/5.0, SRM 5.0 Array replication, EMC Data Domain, VADP, UCSM, Recover Point, Microsoft Hyper-V, Cisco UCS, VMAX 20K, VNX 5700

Role VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in planning and implementation of virtual environment
• Created Virtual Machines and Installed VMware Tools
• Provided physical to virtual migrations for servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Deployed Through Templates
• Cloned Virtual Machines
• Managed and Troubleshoot Virtual Network issues
• Worked on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Worked on Cold migration and vMotion
• Worked on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into Resource pools.
• Configured DNS, DHCP
• Customized 2003/2008 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching.
• Maintaining, implementing and optimizing operating systems/software utilizing VMware virtualization technologies for vSphere 4.0/4.1 including configuration of VMware HA and DRS.
• Designing and deploying a corporate VMware ESX Server infrastructure.
• Managed testing, implementation and administration of vCenter Lab Manager Server.
• Documentation included PCI compliance Requirements, Project Plan, Network Diagrams, P2V migration and Network design and upgrade recommendations.
• Disaster recovery planning, implementation and recovering systems during crash or hardware failure.
• Updated and patched all ESX servers and coordinate hardware-software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy
• Backup and Storage Consulting - Networker, NetBackup and EMC Avamar.
• Migrated Backup servers and 10000 clients from Networker to NetBackup.
• Configured Master and Media servers.
• Configured VM backups using NetBackup.
• Implemented Data Domain to replace Tape based backups.
• Preparing and Implementing Service Improvement Plans
• Escalation Management PIR preparation, handling Escalation Calls.
• Root Cause Analysis.
• Liaison and Interfacing with clients and other technology groups for process enhancement and Escalation Matrix definition.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.0, EMC Avamar, Cisco UCS, P2V Conversion, Plate spin migration, vCenter upgradation.