SUMMARY

• Over 7+ Years of experience in implementing and Managing enterprise scale VMware vSphere Infrastructure.
• End to End Implementation of VCE Vblock converged infrastructure platforms.
• Cisco Unified Computing Platform deployment in Vblock Environments.
• Implementing and Configuring Data Protection and DR solutions using Snap Mirror and Snap Vault
• Cisco Nexus 1000v deployment as Vblock/Flexpod 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/Flexpod network aggregation layer.
• Cisco MDS 9148 and Nexus 5k Unified based SAN fabric deployment in Vblock and Flexpod platforms.
• Cisco Unified Computing Systems Design, Deployment and Configuration for both Virtualized and Bare Metal (Linux/Windows) environments.
• Deploying and supporting large scale RHEL (Redhat Enterprise Linux) and Windows in virtualized environment.
• Extensive experience in VMware based Datacenter Virtualization Solutions, Private Cloud Implementations/Operations, Virtualization Management, Converged Infrastructure Platform and Business Continuity Solutions.
• Delivering and managing VMware vCloud Suite based Private Cloud with Multi - tenancy, Self Service and showback on VCE Vblock platform.
• Deploying and Managing VCAC (vCloud Automation Center) based Private Cloud for self-service provisioning and lifecycle management of VM services dat comply with established policies.
• VCAC (vCloud Automation Center) integration with center and Cisco UCS endpoints to provide both virtual and physical cloud services.
• Implementing VCAC workflows to allow tenants to order, deploy, modify and decommission VM’s from published Machine Blueprints in teh service catalog.
• Implementing and Managing Vblock Advanced Management Pod.
• VMware vCenter Operations Manager deployment for Cloud infrastructure performance and capacity monitoring.
• Implementing vCenter Operations Manager for performance and capacity management of teh private cloud.
• Implementing and Managing VMware Site Recovery Manager in teh Private Cloud for providing Disaster Recovery services for teh VM workload.
• Comprehensive management of Vblock platform leveraging vCenter, Cisco UCSM, EMC UIM, EMC Unisphere, Cisco Nexus and Fabric Manager.
• VMware Site Recovery Manager and EMC Recoverpoint 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.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

OS: Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 & 5, Sun Solaris 9 & 10, Windows Server 2003 & Windows 9x/XP/Vista

Applications: MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio.

BackUp: VMware vCB, Symantec backup exec,SRM

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, VMware vCloud Director, VCAC, VPC, 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, MN

Converged Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation & operations for VCE Vblock 300 & 700 series platform.
• Vblock Infrastructure Administration and Management with Cisco UCS Manager, Nexus CLI, Fabric Manager, vCenter, Unisphere and UIM.
• Provide Operational support across all layers of teh Vblock platform including Virtualization (vSphere), Compute (Cisco UCS), Networking(Cisco Nexus), Storage(EMC VNX) and OS(Windows 2008 & RHEL6).
• Deploy and Manage vCloud Automation Center based private cloud for self-service provisioning and lifecycle management of VM services dat comply with established business policies.
• End to End Implementation and Configuration of VCAC including vCloud Automation Center Manager, Distribution Execution Managers, End Point Agents, vCAC self service portal website, Reservation Policies, Provision Groups, Approval groups, Enterprise Groups, Endpoints, Resource reservations, Cost Profiles, Network Profiles, Build Profiles and Machine blueprints.
• 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 teh service catalog of teh tenant’s business group.
• Used Redhat Kickstart Configuration to install Redhat over a farm of servers.
• Installation and Configuration of Apache Web server.
• Installation and configuration NIS, FTP, NFS and DNS environment.
• Manage all aspects of vSphere environments.
• Fine tuning VM’s configurations to achieve best performance/resource consumption depending on Application characteristics and requirements.
• End to End Implementation and Management of Vblock network layers including Access, Distribution, Aggregation and Management layer.
• VLAN creation across teh Vblock platform for new tenants/applications.
• Cisco HSRP Configuration on teh AMP 3560 Cisco Catalyst switches to provide L3 High availability and redundancy for Vblock Management traffic.
• Vblock Best Practices and Operational Run Book Documentation.
• Troubleshoot L2/L3 network communication issues on teh Vblock platform.
• Deployment of Cisco Nexus 1000v on Vblock Platform and integration with vSphere.
• Implementing multiple network service tiers across Vblock network layers based on Application performance objectives. vCenter up gradation from 5.1 update 1 to 5.5 update 1a in converged infrastructure platform
• Configuration and Management of Cisco MDS VSANs, NPIV, Zones and Zonesets.
• Vblock Cisco Nexus 5548 Virtual Port-Chanel Implementation and Administration.
• Vblock configuration health check for compliance with VCE/Cisco best practices/guidelines.
• EMC VNX storage system Implementation and administration in Vblock environment.
• VCE Vblock Infrastructure provisioning, reconfiguration and decommissioning using EMC UIM.
• Advanced Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting across all layers of teh 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.
• Monitoring Vblock Resource Utilization for Capacity Planning and SLA Management.
• Monitoring Vblock Hardware health/Availability status and event alarms for Incident Management.

Environment: Vblock 300, Nexus CLI, VNX 7500, Cisco UCSM, Cisco Nexus 1000, Cisco Nexus 5500, VMware vSphere 5.5, EMC Unisphere, VMware vCenter Converter

Confidential

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Vblock based Converged Infrastructure Administration with VMware vCenter, Cisco UCS manager, UIM, Unisphere, OnCommand Unified Manager and Cisco Fabric Manager.
• Deploying and Administering Cisco Unified Computing System for vSphere Infrastructures.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM hardware versions and Datastores 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 dat 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.
• Design and implement vCenter Operations Manager (VCOPS) for performance and capacity management of teh private cloud.
• Create VCOPS custom dashboard specific to VCAC business groups allowing Tenant administrators to view resource utilization of their organization.
• Working experience on different planning migration strategies with SAN and NAS data.
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance and break/fix activities.
• 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 vApp from templates, modify virtual machine hardware, take VM snapshots, delete vApp 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 teh private cloud
• Has good noledge about Cisco MDS switches.
• 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.
• Installed and configures software updates using Update manager using patches and created teh baselines for teh updates
• Creating Backup and restore of data by using windows backup and recovery utilities.
• 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.
• EMC VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management for ESXi, Linux(RHEL) & Windows hosts.
• Implementation of stateless Cisco UCS service profiles with boot from SAN policy for ESXi and Linux hosts.
• Deploy and manage EMC VNX 5700 array as teh shared storage for frontend vSphere and Linux environments.
• Managing all aspects of teh vSphere environments, troubleshooting and resolving configuration related VMware issues.
• 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.
• 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: Nexus CLI, Cisco UCSM, VMware Vsphere 5.1, EMC Unisphere, VMware vCenter Converter

Confidential, Atlanta GA

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing Site Recovery Manager for automated disaster recovery of teh Vblock environment.
• Installing Site Recovery Manager Server on teh Source and teh DR site and Integrating with respective vCenters.
• End to End Implementation of VMware based virtualization environments.
• VMware virtual Infrastructure ESX 3.5/4.0 Administration and Management
• Performance tuning of ESX hosts and Guest OS on VMs.
• 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, Network/IP pools in teh vCloud environment.
• Implement vSphere Storage profiles and VASA to provide multiple tiers of storage with a single vCloud Provider Virtual Datacenter.
• Configure vCloud Catalog storage for vApp template and OS installation media.
• Implement vCloud Director high availability through clustering and load balancing across multiple vCloud Director Cells.
• Implemented a Proof of Concept for VMware on Cisco Unified Computing Systems.
• Responsible for ESX server deployments, system updates/upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2008 & RHEL Linux environment.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Auditing teh ESX cluster builds to make sure all set configurations adhere to teh Implementation guidelines.
• Implementation of stateless Cisco UCS service profiles with boot from SAN policy for ESXi and Linux hosts.
• Deploy and manage EMC VNX 5700 array as teh shared storage for frontend vSphere and Linux environments.
• Infrastructure testing on teh new ESX builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production. vSphere Performance monitoring and analysis using Quest Foglight monitoring solution.
• Implementing Change requests for different configuration changes within teh virtual infrastructure.
• Manage all aspects of VMware vSphere enviroments including Virtual machines and templates, VMFS Datastores, vSwitches, Distributed Virtual Switches, HA/DRS, vMotion, svMotion, Fault tolerance, Access and Authentication control, ESXi advanced configurations, Storage DRS, Storage IO Contol, Resource Management and Monitoring.
• End to End Implementation of VMware based virtualization environments.
• VMware virtual Infrastructure ESX 4.0/5.0 Administration and Management
• Performance tuning of ESX hosts and Guest OS on VMs.
• Implemented a Proof of Concept for VMware on Cisco Unified Computing Systems.
• Responsible for ESX server deployments, system updates/upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Creating LUNs, Storage groups, Raid groups and Pools in VNX 5700
• MDS fiber channel switch zoning for connectivity between CX3-480/960 arrays and HP blade center.
• Configuring VMFS based storage in virtual center.
• Configuring virtual networking related security, traffic shaping and load balancing policies.
• Configuring HA/DRS related advanced configuration settings per VMware Best practices.
• Implementation of Shared storage across ESX Hosts to leverage vMotion and svMotion capabilities.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Auditing teh ESX cluster builds to make sure all set configurations adhere to teh Implementation guidelines.
• Configuring and managing following infrastructure networking switches: Nexus 1000V, UCS 6120/40 Fabric Interconnect, Cisco Nexus 5548 and Cisco 3560.
• Administering Cisco Nexus 1000v Distributed switch using Virtual Supervisor Module
• Infrastructure testing on teh new ESX builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production. vSphere Performance monitoring and analysis using Quest Foglight monitoring solution.
• Implementing Change requests for different configuration changes within teh virtual infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting vSphere performance related issues.
• 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.
• Implementing Cisco UCS Pass-through switching for ESX hosts and VM’s .
• Performed a production wide VM networking migration from Standard Virtual Switches to Distributed Virtual Switch with live traffic.
• Responsible for proper licensing of environment as dat relates to Virtual Center host, ESX VC agent, VMotion, DRS, HA, and VC Consolidated Backup.
• Troubleshooting vSphere performance related issues.
• Managing/troubleshooting Cisco UCS.
• Implementing Cisco UCS Pass-through switching for ESX hosts and VM’s .
• Performed a production wide VM networking migration from Standard Virtual Switches to Distributed Virtual Switch with live traffic.
• Built HP DL380/580 G Servers for VMware deployments.
• Responsible for proper licensing of environment as dat relates to Virtual Center host, ESX VC agent, VMotion, DRS, HA, and VC Consolidated Backup.
• Performing seamless upgrade of teh entire converged infrastructure platform including ensuring firmware compatibility and interoperability.
• 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 recoverpoint.

Environment: VMware Vsphere5.0, Nexus CLI, EMC Unisphere, HP ILO, VMware VCenter Converter, Cisco UCSM

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

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.
• Architecting and Implementing Development Cloud based on VMware virtual infrastructure suite and a customized Lab Manager implementation.
• Executing a Proof of Concept for teh newly proposed cloud system design.
• Performance testing for determining VM performance benchmarks and optimal consolidation ratios
• 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.
• Healthcheck 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 Vsphere, Cisco UCSM, HP ILO, EMC Unisphere

Confidential, AZ

VMware Consultant

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 Vsphere, HP ILO, VMconverter