SUMMARY

• 8+ Years of experience Implementing and Managing enterprise scale VMware vSphere Infrastructure.
• End to End Implementation of VCE Vblock based converged infrastructure platforms.
• Cisco Unified Computing Platform deployment in Vblock Environment.
• EMC VNX and VMAX Implementation and Management in Vblock Environments.
• Cisco Nexus 1000v deployment as Vblock virtual networking access layer.
• Vblock Infrastructure services life cycle management with EMC UIM.
• Cisco Nexus 5K VPC (Virtual Port Channel) implementation and configuration as Vblock network aggregation layer.
• Cisco MDS 9148 and Nexus 5k Unified based SAN fabric deployment in Vblock platforms.
• Implementing and Managing Vblock Advanced Management Pod.
• VMware vCenter Operations Manager deployment for Cloud infrastructure performance and capacity monitoring.
• VMware Site Recovery Manager Implementation and Management for Virtual Infrastructure Automated Disaster recovery.
• P2V (Physical to Virtual) and V2V (Virtual to Virtual) conversion using VMware Convertor.
• Knowledge Transfer, Best practices sharing and Run Book Documentation.
• Extensive noledge in advance features of VMotion, Storage vMotion, VM Lab Manager and vCenter and VMware Orchestrator.
• Extensive noledge vCAC - Virtual Center Automation Center.
• 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.
• Cloud services (AWS, Office 365, SharePoint Online, Azure); On-Premises services (Active Directory, Exchange, WSUS, SCCM, Group Policy, IIS); Backup solutions (Symantec Backup Exec, Intronis, Axcient); MSP tools (N-able N-central and Autotask)
• As a Managed Services Provider, provide server, network and desktop support and solutions across a diverse client base of small- and medium-sized businesses.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Cisco UCS 5108, HP C3000 and C7000 Enclosures, Dell Power Edge and Rack mount servers.

OS: Red hat Enterprise Linux 4 & 5, Sun Solaris 9 & 10, Windows Server 2003 & Windows 9x/XP/Vista, Active Directory

Applications: MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio.

Backup: VMware vCB, Symantec backup exec, vRanger Pro.

VMware: VMware ESX 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 Virtual Center, vSphere, VMware DRS & HA, VMware P2V Converter, vCenter Server 2.5, Virtual Infrastructure 3.0, vSphere 4.0, vSphere 5.0. ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0, VMware Converter, VMware View, VMware Thinapp, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, DPM, FT, VMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Guided Consolidation, Lab Manager and VMware Workstation.

Database: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, MSSQL 2000/2005/2008 R2, IBM DB2, MySQL

Third party VMware Applications: Plate Spin power convert, Vision core, vCharter Pro, Plate Spin Power Recon, Solar winds, vFoglight.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Antonio Texas

VMware Administrator/ Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience with installing, configuring and maintaining ESX Servers (ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1 and VMware ESX 5.1) and Server migrations from physical to Virtual using Hot and cold cloning technology in VMware. Documented pre migration events.
• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESX 5.5/5.0/4.1 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, Double Take, Recovery Point Approach.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Chassis 7000, DL380P GN8.
• Working on updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Played a vital role in Creating Virtual Machines, Cloning virtual machines, converting P2V(used standard VMware converter tool), VM-Provisioning (Linked clones, thin disks, de-duplication ) taking Snapshots of virtual servers.
• Experience on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
• Experience in installing and configuring Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers from ILO management tool on Rack servers and blades.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup.
• LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multi pathing.
• Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi Servers on HP & Cisco hardware
• Performed Quality checks to ensure everything is working fine.
• Determining customer requirements and designing VMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware's product portfolio from teh vCloud Suite to teh Horizon Suite to meet teh functional and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals.
• Monitoring and maintenance of Vcenter sever heartbeat.
• Providing and maintaining user access in Vcenter, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU or memory.
• Installing and Configuring VMware vCenter Orchestrator
• Design, configure, and support Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Technologies.
• Management & Troubleshooting of VM Environment for Desktops
• Installed necessary security patches every month to our production and pre-production environments.
• Patch management using VMware update manager for ESX server.
• Configured multiple static and dynamic IP addresses for forward and dynamic routing.
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Inventory and health management using insight manager.
• Involving in maintaining and updating Active directory, GPOs, Global Groups and Resultant set of Policy for authentication.
• Check for Microsoft updates, DNS entries and Domain configurations. Check if IP address is assigned to teh correct domain.
• Check for system errors and logs.
• Working on windows cluster services.
• Managing Public key and private key Infrastructure (VeriSign MPKI).
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of teh application servers in production.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.1, UCS C240 M3, Windows 2008/2003, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NTFS, Blue cat BCN -XMB Adonis (DHCP, DNS), JUNOS Space, Cisco Nexus 5K, CISCO switches, HP P4000, Emulex NC553, NC551 HBA's, SQL Server 2008, Linux, VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, VMware vSphere client, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling.

Confidential, St. Luis, MO

Systems Administrator/VM Ware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Upgrading vCenter Servers /ESXi hosts from vSphere 4.x to 5.0.
• Implementation of VMware vSphere 5.0 with Enterprise Plus Features of distributed Switch and Host Profiles Upgrade Experience from VMware Infrastructure 4.0 to vSphere 5.0 and Update 1 including vCenter5.0, ESX Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools and H/W upgrade to vSphere 5.0.
• Upgraded VMs hardware components according vSphere requirement.
• Has good noledge on desktop virtualization.
• Troubleshooting issues relating to v motion such as compatibility issues with help of event log.
• Monitored all UNIX Servers for CPU utilization, Network traffic, and hard drive space and Memory.
• Using teh Linux system with yum and downloading teh rpm package files with Yum downloader.
• Using Red hat package Manager and runs yum automatically.
• Installing and managing Antivirus on all teh servers and desktop.
• Admin noledge of Microsoft SQL and Oracle Database.
• Establish and implement ongoing monitoring procedures as indicated by establishing a baseline and appropriate metrics, generating a security monitoring procedure, implement scripts, and auditing/verifying teh system as reported on a periodic basis and participate in security audits
• Coordinated precise scheduling for all data center migration events
• Installing VMware Tools in a Linux virtual machine using RPM and Compiler.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM hardware versions and Data stores upgrade to VMFS 5.
• Was responsible for formulating disaster management techniques, and teh course of action to be taken, in case of a network failure.
• Ensured that all teh software and hardware components are upgraded properly, and also designed teh company's networking policy.
• Co-ordination with network team for implementation and upgrade services CISCO MDS switches.
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance and break/fix activities.
• Having good noledge in Administration of VM clones, Templates and snapshots.
• Responsible for Virtual Environment maintain and well-organizing.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per teh requirement of teh project
• Was involved in building, configuring and hardware upgrades of Windows servers.
• Worked on Performance Analysis and Tuning/Optimization Operations, Virtual machine creation, cloning, configurations.

Confidential, Addison, TX

Converged Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementing and Managing VMware vSphere Virtual Infrastructure on Cisco UCS,, EMC VNX/VMAX and Cisco Nexus/Catalyst based hardware platform.
• Vblock based Converged Infrastructure Administration with VMware vCenter, Cisco UCS manager, UIM, Unisphere, OnCommand Unified Manager and Cisco Fabric Manager.
• Implementing and Managing EMC VNX/VMAX based block storage systems in Vblock environment.
• Deploying and Administering Cisco Unified Computing System for vSphere Infrastructures.
• Deploying vSphere Infrastructure from teh ground up including vCenter, Database Server, Update Manager, and ESXi hypervisor hosts.
• Implementing vCenter Operations Manager for Performance and Capacity management of teh virtual infrastructure.
• Implementing highly automated Disaster Recovery for teh Virtual environments with VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Managing all aspects of teh vSphere environments, troubleshooting and resolving configuration related VMware issues.
• Routine Operation process and service delivery automation with VMware Powercli.
• Fine tune VM configurations to achieve best performance/resource consumption based on Application characteristics and requirements.
• Configuring and Managing Cisco UCS Service profiles, Identity pools, LAN and SAN related policies and settings
• Administering Cisco Nexus 5K VPC, Catalyst 3560 HSRP, Nexus 1000v VSM/VEM, Cisco UCS VN-Link.
• Configuring and Managing Cisco MDS VSANs, NPIV, Zones and Zonesets.
• Integrating Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN connectivity.
• EMC Power Path installation and configuration for Storage Path load balancing.
• Provide Level 3 Operational support across all layers of teh converged infrastructure platform including Virtualization (vSphere), Compute (UCS), Networking (Nexus) and Storage (NetApp FAS, EMC VNX/VMAX).
• Advanced Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting across all layers of teh Converged infrastructure platform.
• Vblock Infrastructure provisioning, reconfiguration and decommissioning using EMC UIM.
• Planning & implementation of scheduled changes per change management policies.
• Health check and configuration audits in Vblock environment.
• Development of Custom scripts for Virtual Infrastructure Utilization and Capacity reporting.
• Configure SNMP based monitoring alerts on all converged infrastructure elements.
• Vblock best practices implementation specific to customer environments.

Environment: Vblock, Cisco UCS, EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, VMware sphere, VMware vSphere CLI

Confidential, New York, NY

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installing Site Recovery Manager Server on teh Source and teh DR site and Integrating with respective vCenters.
• Implementing and managing Block based VNX storage system in VMware virtualization environment.
• Performing seamless upgrade of teh entire converged infrastructure platform including ensuring firmware compatibility and interoperability.
• Integrating VMware SRM with teh backend EMC Recover point platform 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 teh DR site.
• Managing SRM based protection in a highly dynamic environment ensuring newly deployed Tier1 VM’s are protected and on replicated data stores.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• Configuring Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect upstream connectivity for LAN with Cisco Nexus 5548 and upstream connectivity for SAN with Cisco MDS switches.
• Configuring and managing Virtual Port Channel based clustering on teh Cisco Nexus 5K series.
• Managing and configuring VSAN, NPIV, Zones and Zonesets on teh Cisco MDS 9148 for Fibre Channel connectivity between Cisco UCS, EMC VPLEX, EMC VNX and EMC recover point.
• 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 SRM, EMC VNX, Cisco UCS, VPLEX, Recover Point, VMware vSphere CLI, VMware vCenter.

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

VMware consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment.
• Cisco UCS Deployment and Implementation for Virtual Environments.
• P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter.
• Migration of existing VMs from HP Blades to Cisco UCS.
• Performing upgrade of teh Virtual Infrastructure.
• Configuring and managing VMware cluster with High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduling.
• Monitoring and managing performances of ESX/ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Design and Implementation of VMware ESX server infrastructure in multisite/multi Datacenter environments.
• EMC CX 480/960 SAN Storage Administration and Provisioning for ESX hosts.
• Health check on VMware Infrastructure using VMware Health check tool and custom scripts
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2003 Server / Windows 2008 environment.
• Support day-to-day issues in VMware Virtual Infrastructure, EMC CX and Cisco UCS and HP Blade environments.

Environment: VMware vCenter, Cisco UCS, HP Blades, VMware vCenter Converter, VMware Custom scripts.

Confidential, Walnut Creek, CA

VMware consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining teh VMware ESX 3.x / Virtual Center 2.x servers
• Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining teh Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows, Linux.
• Managing all aspects of teh vSphere environments, troubleshooting and resolving configuration related VMware issues
• VMotion configuration & troubleshooting. Assisted and documented teh operational history, disaster recovery scenarios and teh procedure to recover teh data being replicated by snap mirror at teh remote site.
• Guest OS template creation and User Account Management.
• Installed open source application like Apache, Tomcat.
• Configuring DRS, HA & Resource Pools in ESX 3.x
• Configuring ESX 3.x servers to use iSCSI & NAS storage.
• Configuring and managing VCB backup proxy server.
• Backup & Restore management of teh Virtual Machines.
• Network Configuration on ESX servers which include Bonds & VLANs.
• Performance monitoring & tuning.
• Scheduling of backups and System security. Preventive maintenance.

Environment: VCenter, ESXi 4.0, ESX 3.5, VMotion, VSphere, HA, Cloning, Snapshots.

Confidential

VMware Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and administration of VMware ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Virtualized 450+ servers using VMconverter.
• Responsible for ESX server deployments, system updates/upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX/ESXi cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Auditing teh ESX cluster builds to make sure all set configurations adhere to teh Implementation guidelines.
• Infrastructure testing on teh new builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production.
• Implementing Change requests for different configuration changes within teh virtual infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting vSphere performance related issues.
• Managing/troubleshooting HP and IBM Blade systems.
• Maintain and monitor all VMware ESX hosts, clusters and virtual datacenters with Virtual center.
• Configured and Troubleshoot Virtual Center features such as VMotion, DRS and HA.
• Troubleshooting VMware ESX related issues.

Environment: VMware Converter, IBM Blades, VMware vCenter, VMware ESX, vMotion, DRS, HA.