PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 7 years of experience in IT Industry as a system administrator specialized in the area of Linux, Solaris, VMware, Windows systems connected to storage devices like Netapp, Oracle ZFSSA, EMC clarrion, vmax.
• Experience in installing Linux and Solaris servers using Kickstart, Jumpstart.
• Well experienced in automation tools such as Puppet, Oracle Ops Center.
• Experience in Subversion repository SVN, centralized configuration management tool - Verdad.
• Good experience in patching Linux and Solaris servers and also patching Solaris Zones, Linux VM’s running on ESX environment.
• Experience in Supporting Solaris Zones, LDoM’s and Oracle VM servers for SPARC running on SPARC T2000, T3, T4 and M series servers.
• Experience with Redhat LVM and Veritas Volume Manager on Linux and Solaris
• Experience installing, configuring and managing VMware ESX on different HW like HP Proliant, Dell, IBM servers using vCenter server.
• Hands on experience in building HP ProLiant DL/BL series and Dell Power Edge Servers with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 configurations for Failure/Recovery.
• Hands on experience in using the vCenter server features like vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Fault Tolerance (FT), Distributed Power Management (DPM) and other products of VMware.
• Hands on experience in physical to virtual machine (P2V) conversions and virtual to virtual machine (V2V) conversions as well as conversions between different virtual machine formats using VMware Converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Strong experience in networking concepts such as vSwitches, VMkernel ports, VM ports and Service console, traffic shaping, NIC teaming, load balancing & failover detection.
• Good knowledge of storage concepts related to iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC CLARiiON, Netapp, Celerra storages.
• Worked with Oracle, HP, NetApp support to replace different failed hardware parts of servers and storage arrays.
• Monitoring of virtual infrastructure using vCenter Operations Manager, and HP Insight Manager (HP SIM), SCCM.
• Involved in Linux and Solaris DR exercises to recover servers across multiple Sites.
• Remote management of servers using Oracle ILOM, HP ILO, IBM IMM, Dell DRAC.
• Experience in scripting using Perl and Shell to automate the tasks by using scheduling.
• Administered performance analysis using tools likeSplunk, Nagios, prstat, mpstat, iostat, sar, vmstat, truss, Dtrace.
• Active team player, self-motivated individual with good communication, interpersonal skills, fast learner and a good listener.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL/BL series, Dell Power Edge, IBM x series, Sun/Oracle T4-1, T4-2, T3-2, M-series

Operating Systems: RHEL 5.x, 6.1, 6.3, 7 beta. Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10, 11. HP - UX 10.2, 11.31, 11i v3. CentOS 5.5, 5.8 Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2, Windows client OS XP/Vista/Windows 7.

Networking & Protocols: LAN/WAN routing, SNMP, TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, RAS, RIP, SMTP, DHCP, LDAP, POP3, VPN and VLAN, ARP/RARP.

Storage: Netapp using FC, iSCSI SAN’s and Celerra NAS, EMC CLARiiON, DDN.

Applications and Virtualization: Oracle Messaging Server, VMware vSphere 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 (ESX/ESXi, vCenter server, VMware converter, VMware Update manager), VMware Infrastructure (VI) 3.0 and 3.5 and Citrix Xenserver.

Database servers: Oracle 8i, 9.2, MySQL on Redhat Linux and Solaris

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience in supporting Linux, Solaris, Solaris zones and CentOS servers running on x86, SPARC hardwares such as HP DL380, 360, 160, Oracle T4-1, T4-2, T3-2 series.
• Extensively worked on the automation tool - Puppet to manage configuration files such as creating, updating class files.
• Package management on operating systems such as Linux, Solaris that includes installing, deleting and updating packages.
• Performed storage failovers attached to Solaris hosts like imports, exports of zpools and bringing up the application.
• Updating Operating systems by applying Kernel patches, Bug fix patches, IDR patches.
• Experience with load balancer such as Citrix netscaler including VIP configuration, HA pair setup.
• Upgraded firmware on hardwares such as Citrix Netscalers, Oracle T 4-1, T 4-2, ZT AV, ZT BU, HP systems.
• Worked on Nagios monitoring tool including check modifications and reporting alerts to respective teams.
• Good knowledge on log aggregation software - Splunk that includes querying, analyzing logs in order to troubleshoot.
• Good experience in creating Service Requests for hardware and software related cases with vendors such as Oracle, HP, Citrix, and Cisco.
• Installed and configured Apache Tomcat for internal application tool using Puppet.
• Hardware asset management that includes ordering new hardware as and when required.
• Heavily involved in troubleshooting host, network and storage related issues.
• Coordinated with hardware vendors for datacenter activities such as hardware replacements.
• Automated routine tasks using scripting languages such as Perl and Shell.
• Worked on datacenter automation tool - Oracle Ops Center including installing, configuring and upgrading.
• Domain management that includes updating and testing the certs.
• Good at technical documentation using tools such as Microsoft Visio, OmniGraffle, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
• Worked with Offshore teams to resolve issues related to kickstarts, connectivity issues.

Environment: HP ProLiant DL 380, DL 360, DL 160, IBM dx360 M4, Dell, Oracle T4-1, 4-2, 3-2, Puppet, SVN, Nagios, Splunk, Verdad, Oracle Ops Center, Citrix Netscaler, Cisco switches, Disaster Recovery, SAN/NAS

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of VMware ESX 4.1, ESXi 5.0 on HP ProLiant DL 380, DL 385, DL 580 Rackmount servers which include Windows server 2003/2008 and RHEL 4.0, 5.0. 5.5 connecting through iLO.
• RAID configuration.
• Managing them using VMware vCenter server and VMware vSphere Client.
• Monitored the HP servers using the HP Insight Manager and provided the maintenance in case of power failures, and performed the device mapping.
• Designed the infrastructure and administered the environment running over 30 ESX/ESXi Hosts and 600 Virtual Machines. Also, designed the performance monitoring processes and improved Disaster Recovery processes to utilize virtualization benefits.
• Resource Management - Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for vMotion- migrations between ESX Servers.
• Worked closely with Storage and networking teams to ensure allocated SAN (EMC CLARiiON CX 700, Netapp E2600), fiber and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMware firm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Creation and management of virtual machines, installing VMware tools, creating Templates, Cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.
• Back-ups and remote administration of Windows Server Through Terminal Services.
• Created Snapshot and test rollback, configured vMotion, Cluster and Failover.
• Analyzed existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner.
• Configure VCB, which dumps the backup to Veritas Netbackup Server and Seagate Backup- Backup Proxy Server.
• Day to day support and maintenance of Operating Systems like Windows, RHEL.
• Disk management, Data management, Security management (applying patches).
• Worked on Symantec Antivirus and Symantec Endpoint protection for administering updates and cleanup of a community of more than 600 workstations.
• Participated in development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery & Backup.
• Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in vCenter server.

Environment: HP ProLiant DL 380, DL 385, DL 580, RAID configuration, VMware vSphere 4.1, 5.0, vConverter, vCenter server, vMotion, vReplicator, Clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, vCenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery & Backup, VMware HA & DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 , Veritas Netbackup, Seagate Backup.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Solaris/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Solaris 8/9 installation on SPARC servers and performed disk mirroring activities using SVM and Veritas Volume Manager.
• Responsible for daily activities which included administration and maintenance of Enterprise and Advanced Servers (ES/AS) running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Provided Administration support for server running on RHEL, HP-UX and Solaris at other facilities and also involved in migration activities like p2p & p2v
• Production server migrations, implementation of virtual environment across IBM 3850 servers, Dell Power Edge 2850, 2950.
• Performed data migration from CX 600 to of CX 700 array with the help of Navisphere.
• Handled Performance Monitoring in File system CPU, Memory and Process in all the UNIX Servers
• Veritas Netback up installation and maintenance Backup/restore & Disk/Volume management with Veritas Volume Manager on Sun SPARC Storage Arrays & Multi-Packs
• Configured and managed standard vSwitches and distributed vSwitches.
• Provisioned, allocated, zoned, mapped and masked storage disk space for Solaris and Linux.
• Design, implementation and regular maintenance of MC/Service guard Packages, load balancing.
• Implementation, administration of ODS, VVM, Veritas Cluster and VXFS.
• Installed & configured Sun Fire 210, V240, V440, V490, V880, 1280 & HP Proliant DL- 320/360/380/560/580 L Servers.
• Prepared Backup Schedule for Incremental and Cumulative Backups. Configured and maintained Legato Networker to take backups across the network to tape library. Used nwadmin, nwbackup and nwrecover for backing up and restoring file
• Installation of weblogic, upgraded to service pack updates, installed BEA patches, configuring and creation new domain & services starting & stopping
• Scheduling backups, creating users, writing scripts for administration tasks.
• Configured DNS, DHCP servers & Installation of Weblogic, troubleshooting etc.
• Uploading and Down loading files between Remote & Local servers using secure shell.
• Supporting on all Network, Hardware & Software issues with proper problem solving techniques.

Environment: Sun Fire 12K, 6800, 880, 220, E10K, E5500, E450, Sun E220R, E420R, SPARCstation 20, Solaris 7, 8, Linux serversEMC, Pentasafe, HP Multiplexers, SUN and HP DLT Libraries, Brocade Switches, Glance, PerfView, MC/Serviceguard, Veritas Volume Manager 3.1, Veritas Net backup 3.4 and Omni backup.

Confidential, Hershey, PA

VMware/Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• The project included the upgrade of multiple mission critical windows 2000/2003 member servers using VMware ESX 3.0 Server and P2V conversions using vConverter to prevent downtime and production outage.
• Installed and administered VMware ESX Servers on a HP Blade Servers, which includes over 10 VMware ESX Servers, which are SAN/NAS connected in Production and Non-Production environments that host over 50 Servers running Windows 2000 and 2003 variations.
• Participated in on and off hours support roles for Windows Servers, to help maintain and troubleshoot both software and hardware.
• Lead all development, engineering and support for management of the Virtual Center Environment and Virtual Infrastructure Client.
• Administered more than 50 Windows Servers across the company on a 24/7-basis support.
• Server Virus Management (weekly scans and real time monitoring, signature updates).
• Provided Support for DNS/DHCP/WINS services under instruction from Network Management System.
• Maintained VMware Machines (Hosted on VMware ESX 3.0 and with XP installed).
• Configured the Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC for testing and development.
• Provided Hardware support, troubleshooting and diagnosis.
• Respond to and address any tickets/ work requests in the Remedy Queue.
• Access Servers using Terminal Servers or other approved method.
• Perform system health checks as required.

Environment: VMware ESX 3.0, VM Converter, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure Client, vMotion, SAN/NAS, iSCSI, VCB, VMware HA & DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003, DNS, DHCP, Veritas Netbackup, Windows NT Backup, IIS (HTTP & FTP).

Confidential

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed the Windows 2000/2003 Server in the organization with over 200 clients.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory, a directory service which contains information of all user accounts and which optimizes the network traffic. It provides the user logon and authentication services using Kerberos.
• Administered the Group Policy, a collection of permissions, security and rights, which can be applied on sites domains and OU’s. Also used group policy to automatically upgrade, repair software installation online.
• Installation and support of desktops with Windows 2000 and Windows XP Operating system.
• Provide Remote support and administration on network for internal and external clients using tools like Microsoft remote desktop connection.
• Provide day-to-day support (troubleshooting & installing) for more than 200 users for hardware, network & software’s including Microsoft Office applications, Mail clients and network related issues.
• Installation and configuration of network Printers.
• Managed the member server, a server which hosts services like IIS, DNS, and DHCP.
• Protected the organization’s network from unwanted traffic coming from the internet using ISA Server which is a proxy server and a web caching server.
• Provided the backup and recovery of the files and data, worked on Windows Firewall, Terminal server, and trouble shooting the computer related problems.
• Attending regular calls of the users related to computers & network problems.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003 Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Backup and Recovery, IIS (HTTP & FTP), Managing the Domain and the Domain Controller, ISA, Terminal Services, Disk Management, File Sharing.