Summary of Qualifications:

• Over 8 years of System Engineer and IT experience in multiplatform VMware, Hyper-V Windows server virtualization with hands-on expertise in networking, storage and system integration.
• VMware certified IT Professional with 4 years of experience as VMware/System Administrator with extensive experience in Data Center Environment using ESX server 3.5, 4.0,4.1, ESXi 4.1,5.1 and VSphere VCenter Server 2.0,2.5, 4.0,4.1,5.0,5.1 running Other VMware Products like VCenter Update Manager4.0,4.1, VCenter Lab manager 4.0 , VMware View 4.5 and 4.0 and Site Recovery Manager SRM 4.1 4.0 on Linux/Unix and Windows environment.
• Expertise in ESX and ESXi servers configuration, Installation, management and maintenance with High Availability, DRS, Vmotion, Storage Vmotion and Fault Tolerance.
• Experience in Installation and Configuration of Single Sign on Sever SSO , vCenetr Inventory Services and vCenter5.1 ,
• Experience on VMware operations Manager and vFoglight.
• Experience in SRM implementation and vCenter Heart Beat Implementation.
• Worked on P2V conversions and migrations of physical servers with different OS like Windows and Linux to virtual Platform using VMware converter.
• Implemented Rapid VM deployment preparing templates, cloning and exporting VM to OVF format.
• Worked extensively on Templates/Clones/Snapshots Resource pools
• P2V and V2V migrations using tools like VMware converter /Plate spin/Double Take.
• Experience of using VMware Consolidated backup and Data Recovery appliances in backing up and restoring VM's.
• Configured scheduled tasks, alarms and alerts, CPU, Memory and Network Disk monitoring in VCenter.
• Done Patch Management of hosts and VM's using VMware VCenter Update Manager.
• Experience in installing and configuring storage technology such as SAN, NAS, ISCSI, and RAID.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and maintenance of Linux Redhat, SuSE, Fedora, Ubantu, CentOS and Unix Solaris, HP-UX, AIX Servers.
• Experience Creating and Deploying Windows and UNIX Templates Using Virtual Center Server.
• Managed packages using RPM/YUM on Redhat Linux and maintaining patching on Solaris servers.
• Experience in installing, configuring, supporting and troubleshooting Unix/Linux Networking services and protocols like NIS, LDAP, DNS, NFS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Telnet, FTP, SSH, rlogin.
• Creating and Managing user accounts, system security, performance tuning, change management, Documents and procedures.
• Experienced in configuring RAID Mirroring, striping and parity using veritas volume manager VXVM and SVM.
• File system management on RedHat Linux and Solaris servers using LVM/SVM/ZFS/GFS utilities.
• Experience in Configuring, Administering maintaining Veritas Volume Manager VXVM Veritas Cluster Server.
• Experience in Implementing and Supporting High Availability Cluster environments using Sun Cluster, Veritas Cluster, Redhat Cluster.
• Experience in installing, maintaining and managing various rack mounted and Blade servers from Dell, HP, and IBM.
• Administering Microsoft Windows 2008 , Windows 2003, Windows 2000 and NT Server Environments, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP.
• Experienced on VMware View VDI Implementation.
• Worked on various SAN Fabrics FC SAN,ISCSI SAN and NAS storage.
• Experienced in managing NAS and SAN storage solutions.
• Excellent team player with good communication and leadership skills.
• Experience in working as a part of a highly cross-functional and global team.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

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VMWARE ENGINEER

• Verified and document the Vcenter ESXi cluster load and configuration in VMware environment
• Validated and documented the Nested Clustering configuration and created test cases for VMware High Availability configuration using Powercli.
• Understood the customer requirements. Configured and setup the NetApp FAS2240, 3270 filers from scratch
• and provisioned the ESX storage to the application users. Also created VMs and data stores on VMware ESXi.
• Work with the backup team to create test cases in the vmware and backup environment
• Create test cases and document the cluster response in case of the hardware or nic card failure using windows powershell.
• Worked with system admins and application testing teams to develop test scenarios
• Worked with EMC to install Isilon in the environment
• Work with EMC to add nodes to Isilon environment for data growth
• Create policies and snapshots as per the customer requirements in an Isilon environment
• Migrated data from Celerra NS480 to an Isilon environment using EMCOPY and Robocopy.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and maintenance of Linux Redhat, SuSE, Fedora, Ubantu, CentOS and Unix Solaris, HP-UX, AIX Servers.
• Managed packages using RPM/YUM on Redhat Linux and maintaining patching on Solaris servers.
• Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Linux Redhat and SUSE and VMkernel Linux appliances.
• Created IP zones and access zones in an Isilon environment
• Created test cases and document the scenario of an ESX host crash using PowerCLI.
• Understand and create test cases for database and application backup
• Installation, configuration, testing, support of VMware ESX server and Virtual Center.
• Upgrade of ESX server from ESX 4.1/ ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 / 5.1
• Experience working on Hp Proliant DL 580 G5 and G7 blades.
• Administrated the environment consisting of 158 Esxi hosts and 1200 Virtual Machines.Fiber channel Upgrade from

EMC DMX-3 to DMX-4.

• Provided assistance to the VDI team for desktop and application virtualization using Vmware view 4.6 and Vmware
• Thinapp 4.6.
• Health and Workload Views and Automated correlation of change events using VCenter Ops manager.
• Performed the Disk, shelf, RLM, SP, BMC, and BIOS firmware upgrades as per the NetApp Auto support.
• Configuration and Troubleshooting issues in NetApp and CX storage.
• Extensively worked on the Snap mirror technology and created the connection entries to use the specific interface based
• on the network traffic go perform the migrations.
• Implementation of SRM 5.0 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
• Installation and Configuration vCenter HeartBeat for vCenter failover and FailBack Purpose.
• Supported Enterprise Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Citrix, XenDesktop 5.5 Server, Citrix Provisioning 6.0 server and
• VDI environment. Troubleshoot and support Citrix environment.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory , DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers
• as per the requirement of the project
• Set up V-Motion, High Availability HA , Distributed Resource System DRS , and related VMware products such
• as VM Workstation.
• Schedule VM Backup and Snapshots and manage/reload Snapshots and Experience with SRM 5 deployment
• and implementation .
• Implemented disaster recovery utilizing Veeam Backup and VDR.
• Install troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machine using VMware Update manager.
• Installed the EMC Power Path across all the ESXi Hosts.
• Configured the standard cluster settings on vCenter clusters.
• Experience in the execution of the build PowerCli scripts for adding up of the data store to the servers.
• Documenting desktop and network problems and their resolution for future reference.
• Monitoring system performance and network connectivity to remote offices.
• Develop and deploy automation solutions to streamline the install and upgrade processes.
• Built and executed DR plan in ERP.Updated the CI's in CMDB. Documented the procedure for other team members to follow.
• Followed SOP's during builds and decommission of servers.
• Created the run book designs and procedural documents for the client's reference.

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VMWARE ENGINEER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Installed and Implemented VMware ESX 4.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI.Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Worked on VMware Capacity planner and performed capacity analysis of existing physical production environment.
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates.
• Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware and UCS Blade servers which reduced racks and power usage, downtime during maintenance and improved monitoring.
• Created and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines
• Experience with multiple backup and recovery technologies like Cloning, Snapshots, and Disaster Recovery technology.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual Center server for HA, DRS.
• Successfully migrated Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS NAS and internal storage.
• Worked on Creation troubleshooting of Virtual Network, VMware ESX virtual Machines
• Created templates from VMs and deployed VMs from templates
• Maintained Microsoft Windows Servers 2003 and 2008 , DNS DHCP and Active Directory
• Performed backup and restore of VMware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and with other third party converters, Patch updation, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Installed and implement NFS server using windows UNIX service and configured with VMware Host servers for storage.
• configured Virtual desktop infrastructure VDI in the environment .
• configured the thin clients and configured the VMs for the VDI environment
• Performed backups and restores using Veritas NetBackup and Networker.
• Installed and implemented open source OpenFiler 2.3 iSCSI SAN with RAID 10 for VMware and other servers with iSCSI initiators.
• Connected Thin Client WYSE, DevonIT , desktop Windows Xp2 clients to RDS 6.1.
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP , Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, RADIUS, Blackberry 5.0 and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2010.
• Responsible production support of Active directory AD , GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Administrating/Responsible production Exchange 2003 Email Server, creating/disabling users, Mailboxes management, public folders administration, monitoring server health, LDAP, smtp traffic/queues, Resolving Outlook issues.
• Installed, Configured and Implemented Terminal Server TS RemoteApp on IIS 7.0 Windows 2008 R2 published applications using TS Web Access, RemoteAppprogramme and TS Gateway.
• Implemented Microsoft Clustering for IIS Web Servers. Familiar with web based .Net application, xml integration in IIS web server, IIS Clustering, Load Balancing, Logging and Reporting.
• Familiar with windows, software and Hardware based Firewalls. Allow/Block ports, inbound/outbound tcp/udp traffic, PAT/NAT, Remote Access VPN and site to site vpn, content filtering, log alayzing, reporting, configurations of Syslog, snmp, access control.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2003/2008, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMwareESXi 4.0 Server,Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell PowerVault NAS, Zywall and SonicWall Firewall, Remote desktop services,Veritas NetBackup,Cisco UCS blade server.

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VMWARE ADMINISTRATOR/BACKUP ENGINEER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Update VMware virtualization system from old version to vSphere 4
• Install, configure and maintain vCenter Server 4.0, ESX server 4.0, vSphere 4 Client and VMware view 4.0.2
• Create and migrate virtual machines host on vCenter and ESX Server
• Create, migrate, and configure virtual desktops with VMware View Management and WYSE.
• Upgrade environment from VI 3.5 to vSphere 4.0.
• Automating tasks using VMwarevCLI Windows Powershell
• In process to implement VMware view and ThinApp for end users.
• Installation and configuration of vSphere components like ESX/ESXi server, vCenter Server and vSphere client
• Creating and configuring 3par SAN, Dell EqualogiciSCSI and NFS datastores for ESX servers, Configure networking for ESX servers, Configuring and managing Resource pools using shares.
• Configuring VMotion for migrating VMs, HA for cluster environment and DRS for load balancing guests between multiple ESX hosts.
• User administration and access policy implementation for the VMware operations group. Capacity planning and performance monitoring of virtual Machines and architecting VM implementation as per different application perspective.
• Deployment of Virtual machines from templates and P2V migration using vConverter and PlatespinPowerConvert,Troubleshoot common virtual environment problems.
• Preparing documentation for the virtual environment.
• Created virtual machines on VMware ESX Server 2.0 and monitor system with VMware Infrastructure 3.0 Updated Windows Server NT4 and Windows Server 2000 to Windows Server 2003
• Configured and administrated Active Directory with domains, computers, groups and users Supported helpdesk for troubleshooting and maintaining over 70 servers, 400 workstations Setup printer servers, installed and maintained 60 network printers

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2000/2003/2008, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMwareESXi 4.0 Server,Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, SAN, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell, NetBackup,Cisco UCS , HP Blade Systems , Linux Rhel 5 Rhel 4, NetApp filers FAS 3070.

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VMWARE ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performed Installation and maintenance of CLARiiON CX3-40, CX3-80 CX-700, along with LUN masking and Zoning and Hosts Configurations support.
• Worked on DMX 4/3/3000, ECC Support, Storage Provisioning
• Worked on SNAP view, Creating Meta LUN and expand LUN in CLARIION CX3-40, CX3-80 using Navisphere.
• User administration on CLARIION Storage and adding Storage in Domain zoning Host to Storage, Meta device
• configuring, mapping and masking on SYMMETRIX DMX using SYMCLI and real time performance monitoring on DMX through ECC.
• CLARIION Performance analysis by Navisphere analyzer and DMX performance analysis through ECC Performance Manger.
• Worked on SYMMETRIX TimeFinder mirroring and CLONE BCV.
• Worked on EMC open Migrator/lm and EMC Power Path
• Configuring Snapview, Snapshots and Snapview Clones on CLARIION CX Series Sub-Systems.
• Configuration and Administration of ECC
• Assigned storage from DMX/Symmetrix CLARIION arrays to UNIX Windows systems.
• Used SRDF and timefinders for DR purpose
• Performed installation and implementation of Netapp FAS 3070 and FAS 6040.
• Supported Cisco MDS and Brocade using Connectrix and Fabric/Device Manager and Configuring Zones.
• Experience with multiple backup and recovery technologies like Cloning, Snapshots, and Disaster Recovery technology.
• Experience with Cisco fabric manager, zoning, storage allocation
• Support Ontap upgrades export Qtrees, creation and exports through NFS.

ENVIRONMENT: CLARIION CX3-40, CX3-80, CX700, SYMMETRIX 4/3/3000, Netapp FAS 6040, 3070, Cisco MDS 9509, 9506, VeritasNetBackup, QLogic and Emulex HBAs, McData and Brocade switches 4100, 24000, 48000, Navishpere Manager, NaviCli, ECC, Symcli, Powerpath, SnapView, MirrorView, SanCopy, TimeFinder, SRDF, SnapMirror, SnapRestore.

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LINUX ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Handling IBM x346/x366/x3660/x3880/x3856 e Servers.
• Installed SuSe Enterprise Linux 9 on the above servers using Autoyast.
• Installed Red hat Linux U8 ES 3.0 and U5 ES 3.0 .Application running on Red hat is Tea leaf.
• Handling NFS,LDAP,Creating LVM's and making file systems on SAN and internal .
• Storages on SuSe Linux.
• Did IP bonding and IP Multipathing for SAN
• Worked on Centrify and E trust Client.
• Did Performance Tuning on SLES9 and Red hat Linux ES 3.0.
• Handling tickets to solve small problems in AIX5.3 and Solaris 9.
• Handling day to day administration jobs in SuSe Linux and Red hat Linux
• Installed VERITAS Foundation Suite and created volumes.
• Installed Vmware GSX servers.
• Installed oracle Grid and Oracle RAC with ASM .
• Worked on SuseZlinux SLES9.
• Installed, queried and updated RPMS.
• Installed WAS 5.0 in 32 bit OS and WAS 6.0 in 64 bit OS.
• Installed splunk in SuSe Linux.
• Installed MQM in SuSe Linux.
• Worked on DR project. Made Golden images for DR.

ENVIRONMENT : SUSE SLES 9 SP1,SP2,SP3,SP4 , RHEL ES 3.0,AS 4.0, IBM X346,X366,X3660,X3880,X3856.

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LINUX/UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Handled Dell Servers 1950/1850/2650/6650
• Worked and Installed Red hat Linux AS4 Server and Workstation Version .
• Day to Day activities include locally/remotely jumping servers/client machines, Handled remedy tickets.
• Installed VMware GSX beta version for Linux and Xen.
• Worked on production servers which included installing net dump ver. 0.0.7.2 etc.
• Monitored stale NFS in Solaris/Linux servers and adding users on NIS domain and allocated users passwords.

ENVIRONMENT: Red hat AS4.0, Sun Solaris 8, and Dell Power Edge 1750/1850/2650/1950/6650.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• LAN Technologies : Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet, VLAN, Inter-VLAN Routing, VTP, STP, RSTP, LWAP, WLC
• Protocols/Services: Routing Protocols RIP, IGRP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP , HSRP, VRRP, GLBP
• VMware Technologies: VMware Vsphere, VMware ESX 3, 3.5 and 4.0,5.0 / 5.1 Virtual center server 2.5 and 4 VMware converter enterprise, vCenter Ops Manager suite, VMware Update Manager,FT, HA, DRS, DPM, Vmotion, Svmotion,VMware GSX server, SRM, Thinapp, Lab Manager,VMware Workstation, VMware capacity planner and VMware Player.
• OS products/Services : Windows Server NT/2000/2003/2008 - Active Directory Domain Services ADDS , DNS, DHCP, WSUS, Web-Server IIS7 , IIS 6 , Application Server, TCP/IP Networking, FTP, SSL, Terminal Services and Clustering, Virtual Server 2005, Virtual PC , UNIX, LINUX,IBM AIX, Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008.
• Backup Tools: NetBackup,networker, vRanger Pro 4, Windows server backup tools, wbadmin command tools, NTDS utility.
• Applications : MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio ,Ethereal ,Solar Winds.
• Third party VMware Applications: Platespin power convert, Vizoncore VcharterPro,Vfoglight, Platespin Power Recon.