SUMMARY

• Having 8 years in Linux and VMware Administrator, since 2006 responsible for planning, design, implement, troubleshoot and maintaining enterprise VMware environment including ESX 3.5 / ESXI 4 & 5 with Virtual Center and Redhat EL 4.x, 5.x, 6.x environment.
• Leading the team in current project and played a lead role in vitalizing about 95% of Windows and Linux based servers.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro - active System Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Servers: IBM Blade Center and HP servers.

Storage: EMC Clarion CX500 and CX3-40, Hitachi.

Operating Systems: RHEL4/5, Windows server .

Virtual Environment: VMware ESX / ESXI Servers / Workstation / VCenter

Linux Services: NFS, SSH, LDAP, Samba, Auto FS.

Web & FTP Servers: Apache, Tomcat, Web logic and FTP Servers.

Mail Servers: Qmail, Zimbra, Send mail.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano, TX

Technical Lead (VMware System Engineer)

Responsibilities:

• Experience in ESX3.5 / Esxi 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 deployment and management.
• Day to day system administration to support 500+ Virtual Servers in Production and development environments.
• Design and test Enterprise virtualization environments for server platforms using VMware VSphere.
• Perform architectural reviews to identify infrastructure issues and enhancement possibilities.
• Recommend Architectural direction on infrastructure, process and procedures to enhance performance and stability of the environment.
• Document architectural design, implement on approval and knowledge transfer and training to support teams and users on the new process.
• Product evaluation on new vendor products and tools, Document the process and build Proof of Concept (POC) and implement on approval.
• Design and Implement ESX and Esxi upgrades from 3.5 / 4.X to VSphere 5
• Evaluate, design and implement enterprise virtual solution using various shared storage, networking components, thin client endpoint device images and user remote access clients.
• Design, Implement and test Disaster recovery solutions using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) & VReplicator
• Design and Implement enterprise monitoring solution using VCenter Operations Manager (VcOps)
• Design, test and implement process enhancements geared towards implementation and operational cost savings.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Technical Lead (VMware System Engineer)

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implemented Storage migrations on retiring storage systems running VMware environment with minimal to no downtime.
• Document and train offshore team and operations team on the new technologies.
• Creating and configuring new virtual machines (Windows & Linux)
• Performance of VM’s monitoring through virtual center
• Troubleshooting the VM’s performance issues and other issues on VM’s
• Remote administration of windows, Linux & Esx Servers
• Installed and Configured Windows Active Directory service on windows 2003 server
• Installing and upgrading Virtual center 4.0,5.0 on windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers
• Resolving the issues on priority basis ( BMC Remedy service and HPSM)
• Configuring the Resource pools, High availability,FT & DRS
• Generating Antivirus(Symantec),Backup, and Daily service review(DSR) Reports
• Preparing sop’s and RCA for the production issues
• Implemented P2V and V2V migration on datacenters
• Monitoring Cloud Hardware Health/Availability status and event alarms for Incident Management.
• Worked on Datacenter transition project and handled many production issues
• Worked on SLA's and Followed the ITIL process for Implementations
• Design and implement the Virtual consolidated backup
• Configuring Cluster on Virtual center4.0, 5.0.
• Handling the offshore team and making sure correct KT is done
• Troubleshooting all types of issues on Virtual Infrastructure farm
• Giving 24/7 support to the client

Confidential

Linux and VMware System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead role in Planning, Designing, Deploying VMware ESX environment attached to Storage systems.
• Expertise: P2V/VM Converter, Virtual Center, VMotion, Storage VMotion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Thin Provisioning, Update Manager, Storage Extends, Virtual Switch, Virtual Distributed Switch, Cloning VM, Create Templates, Deploy VMs from Templates, User Role Management, Resource Management and Reservation.
• Lead role in Migration projects for converting the VMware environment from ESX to 3.5 to Esxi VSphere 4.
• Lead role in Maintaining, Troubleshooting and administering VMware and Storage environments.
• Other VMware product working experience: VMware Server, VMware Workstation and VMware VCenter Orchestrator.
• Maintaining Virtual infrastructures of Confidential .
• Installing and Configuring Esx server (v3.5) on Rack Servers like IBM X Series 346, Dell Power Edge 2950 Series, HP DL 360G5, HP DL 385 G5.
• Installing and Configuring Virtual Machines as per the Production Needs.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting VM’s Performance using Virtual Center.
• Working on Windows Active Directory Service (ADS) on Windows 2003 servers.
• Remote Administration of Windows, Linux and Esx Servers.
• Resolving the Issues on Ticket Based (Remedy Service).
• Installing Patches for windows2003 and Esx Servers.
• Giving solution through internal chat channel for end user requirements.
• Installing, configuring and creating Resource pool, new Templates and Virtual Machines.
• Converting Physical machines to Virtual machines (P2V & V2V) through VMware Converter.
• Installing and Configuring Virtual Center Server (V2.5) on Windows 2003 Server.
• Maintaining and Troubleshooting of all issues on Virtual Infrastructure.
• Working on 24/7 Datacenter Support Service Team.

Confidential

Executive - VMware

Responsibilities:

• Maintained servers in Linux and Windows Platform and 5 ESX Severs in VMware.
• Installing and configuring ESX Servers on Rack Servers HPDL360G5, DL385G5 and configuring it with Virtual Center(2.5)
• Installing, configuring and creating Resource pool, new Templates and Virtual Machines.
• Implementing the High Availability (HA) and DRS in the cluster environment
• Monitoring and troubleshooting of the VM’s Performance.
• Creating ISCSI targets for Esx servers in SAN.
• Remote Administration of Redhat Linux EL3, EL4 servers, ESX Servers.
• Remote management of Linux and Windows based servers and its application using remote administration tools like ILO, terminal services, VNC Viewer.
• Weekly and monthly checks to keep the SID database updated.
• Converting Physical machines to Virtual machines using VMware Converter.
• Installed and Configured Iron port C150.
• Configuring and maintaining Mail severs Qmail / Zimbra / Sendmail.
• Configuring and maintaining server monitoring tool Opmanager.
• Proactively identifying the critical servers and the associated applications, and doing the morning checks daily to avoid the Severity incidents with less downtime.
• Troubleshooting all types of problems in Linux platform.
• Root Cause Analysis on the repeated Incidents and giving technical suggestions to the team members.

Confidential

Server Engineer - Linux

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Configuring Linux servers on IBM X Series x226.
• Performing kernel recompilation for Kernel up-gradation.
• Troubleshooting all type of server Hardware related issues.
• Installing and Configuring Esx server (v3.0) on Rack Servers Dell PowerEdge2950 and IBM X Series346.
• Remote administration of Esx server using Virtual centre.
• Converting Physical machine to Virtual machine using VMware converter.
• Configuring Raid Level 1 and 5 on Linux Servers.
• Configuring and maintaining Logical Volume Manager (LVM) in Linux.
• Designing and Implementing disk quotas in Linux server on user and group basis.
• Troubleshooting all types of problems related to Linux.
• Installed and Configured Juniper firewall (SSG140).
• Installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux, Solaris, Fedora and Cent OS on new server builds as well as during the upgrade situations.
• Log management like monitoring and cleaning the old log files.
• System audit report like no. of logins, success & failures, running cron jobs.
• System performance for hourly basis or daily basis.
• Remotely coping files using sftp, ftp, scp, winscp, and filezilla.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating System authentication user.
• Experienced in tasks like managing User Accounts and Groups, managing Disks and Filesystems.
• Configuring & monitoring DHCP server.
• Taking backup using tar and recovering during the data loss.
• Documenting the installation of third-party software’s.
• Configuring printers to the Solaris and Linux servers and also installing third party softwares.
• Maintaining relations with project managers, DBA’s, Developers, Application support teams and operational support teams to facilitate effective project deployment.
• Manage system installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, performance tuning, managing storage resources, network configuration to fit application and database requirements.
• Responsible for modifying and optimizing backup schedules and developing shell scripts for it.
• Performed regular installation of patches using RPM and YUM.
• Maintained LVM, filesystems along with NFS
• Configured EXT2 and EXT3 file system.
• Installing and Configuring Apache web server in Linux platform.
• Monitoring Servers Using Opmanager and Nagios.