SUMMARY

• 8 years of professional experience in Datacenter Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Private Cloud Computing (IAAS), Virtualization Management.
• Experienced in every role of engineering, including design, system architecture, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance.
• Sound knowledge on ESXi and ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Sound knowledge on Virtual Center server 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 for managing multiple ESX servers and linked vCenter servers.
• Excellent experience and knowledge with designing installing and implementing VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V - Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, VMware converter VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• Worked on different VMware products like VMware ESX server, VMware vCenter, VMware view, VMware Lab manager, VMware SRM, VMware Capacity IQ, VMware vShield.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types ofport groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 3.X and Virtual Center and vMotion.
• Excellent experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Excellent experience with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions.
• Was responsible for installing configuring and troubleshooting on Windows NT/Windows 2000/2003 and 2008 servers using enterprise standards.
• Experience with SQL 2005 and 2008 server
• Deploying and supporting vCenter Operations Manager for cloud infrastructure monitoring.
• Deploying of development and testing specific cloud solutions using VMware Lab Manager.
• Design of vSphere as foundation for vCloud infrastructure.
• Network security services using VMware vShield for cloud multi-tenancy support
• Troubleshoot and Resolve configuration related VMware issues.
• Development of moderately complex scripts using VMware Powercli to automate various vSphere related administrative tasks.
• Advanced Monitoring and Performance Analysis of vSphere Environment using native tools as well as vCenter Operations Manager.
• Fine-tuning VM’s configurations to achieve best performance/resource consumption depending on Application characteristics and requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VSphere, VMware ESX and ESXi 3, 3.5, 4.0, ESXi 4.1 and 5.0, Virtual center server 2.5, 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0Vmware View .4.0.4.5 and 4.6,VMware converter. VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, VCB, SRM, Vmotion and SVmotion, Thinapp, VMware Workstation, VMware capacity planner.

Hardware: Cisco UCS, DELL Power Edge servers, Dell Laptops and Desktops,HP Blade servers, HP Proliant servers and Other HP hardware, Net gear, Cisco & HP Switches, EMC SAN, VMAX, DMX, EMC Clarian.

Network: Cisco Nexus/IOS/Catalyst Switches

Storage: EMC Clarion, EMC Celera, EMC VNX

Operating System: Windows XP, vista, windows 7 Windows Server OS - 2000, NT, 2003, 2008.2008 R2, Linux, Unix.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

VMware/Windows Administration

Responsibilities:

• Supported a large-scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities.
• Upgraded VMs hardware components according vSphere requirement. Upgraded VM tools, VM versions and Datastore upgrade to VMFS 5.
• VM migration across cluster level using v2v, Mount files option and SCP. Administration on VM clones and snapshots.
• Deployed, provisioned the shared NFS storage for ESX servers and virtual machines
• Created LUNs, storage groups and RAID groups.
• Worked all day on support troubleshooting client's problems
• Implementation of host profiles
• Good experience in working on vShields Manager and NSX. Good administration command on vSphere
• Worked as Technical Lead on various infrastructure projects surrounding Servers consolidation, Physical to Virtual Migrations, Storage and Server Management.
• Responsible for the management of servers and duties include regular and proactive monitoring of servers, responding the alerts
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project
• Installing patches and software upgrades recommended by security scan.
• Responsible for documentation of processes and changes in the network on a day-to-day basis.
• Managed and Monitored availability, performance and disk/cpu usage of servers
• Assisting customers and end users with hardware, software application network connectivity issues.
• Installing various applications, performing OS tuning and configuring IP networking parameters.

Environment: HPE BL Series, Smart Start 8.4, VMware VSphere 6.0, ESX 6.0, EMC NetApp SAN/NAS, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure Client, 2012 Systems Center Configuration Manager SCCM, 2012 System Center Operations Manager SCOM, VCenter Lab manager, VCenter Capacity Planner, Clustering, Windows Server 2003/2008, Exchange 2003, Symantec Endpoint, NAS Backups, CentOS 7, DCNM.

Confidential, WOONSOCKET, RI

IT Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• End-to-End Implementation of VMware vCloud suite based Private Cloud on vBlock Platform.
• Deployment of vSphere infrastructure from the ground up, including vCenter Server, External vCenter MSSQL Database server, vCenter Update Manager server, automated ESXi hosts installation and configurations.
• Implementation of stateless Cisco UCS service profiles with boot from SAN policy for ESXi hosts.
• Deployment and configuration of vShield Manager for network related services.
• Configuring vCloud Director External MSSQL based database.
• Integration of vCloud Director with vCenter and vShield manager.
• Implementation of dedicated out of band vCloud Management Platform.
• Configuring vCloud networking, External, Organization and vApp networks and corresponding network pools.
• Automated Provider Virtual Datacenter creation with different classes of service with associated performance, availability and cost characteristics.
• Creating Organizations and allocating resources to tenants using VDC and various Resource Allocation models.
• Deployment of vApp Templates and Catalogue Publishing.
• Monitoring vCloud Director Components, Provider/Org vDC resource usage, various tasks and events.
• Provisioning ESXi Clusters and Infrastructure services across vBlock platform using EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager and its integration with vCloud Director and vCenter Orchestrator.
• Virtual Port Channel configuration on the Cisco Nexus 5K series.
• Configuring Cisco UCS uplink port channels for upstream LAN/SAN connectivity with Cisco Nexus/MDS switches.
• Deployment and integration of vCenter Operations Manager with EMC VNX for comprehensive performance monitoring.
• Configuring vSANs, Zones and Zonesets on the MDS switches for ESXi HBA connectivity with VNX frontend ports.
• Provision and configure EMC VNX Storage Pools, Raidgroups, LUNs, Fully automated Storage Tiering ( FAST) Cache and FAST VP.
• Performing large scale vSphere and Cisco UCS upgrades.
• Implementation and management of Cisco Nexus 1000v for ESXi hosts.
• Configure SNMP based monitoring on all infrastructure components (ESXi hosts, vcenter, UCS, nexus switches) and integration with HP Openview used by Network Operations Center.
• Troubleshoot and Resolve configuration related VMware issues.

Environment: Dell Power Edge R620 and R630, VMware VSphere 5.0, ESX 5.0 & 5.5, VM Converter, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VMotion, VMware Update Manger VMware clustering, EMC NetApp SAN/NAS, VCB, Vcenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery Backup, VMWare HA DRS, Systems Center Configuration Manager SCCM, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, VeritasNetbackup, Seagate Backup.

Confidential, New Jersey

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for VMware Infrastructure Administration of Virtual Infrastructure 5.0 environment.
• Virtualized 450+ servers using VMconverter.
• Handling different aspects of the project such as Capacity planning, Performance /Capacity Monitoring, Storage optimization, Provisioning process, Virtual infrastructure management & automation
• 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 the 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.
• 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 the Cisco Nexus 5K series.
• Administering Cisco Nexus 1000v Distributed switch using Virtual Supervisor Module.
• Healthcheck on VMware Infrastructure using VMware Health check tool and custom scripts
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2008 environment.

Environment: Hypervisors: ESX/ESXi, KVM, Blades: Supermicro, HP, vCenter 4.0, Cisco UCS Server Profiles.

Confidential, AZ

VMware consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managing VMware Lab Manager to provide on demand access for the private cloud for Dev/test to Developers/Testers.
• Assessing the existing testing/dev environment based on physical servers and understanding different constraints posed.
• Planning and designing the virtualized cloud for development/testing environment based on vSphere4 platform and a customized VMware Lab Manager implementation.
• Executing Proof of Concept of the new proposed system design.
• Performing Load-balance testing for determining VM benchmarks, best VM configuration for optimized performance, Maximum number of VM’s per ESX, maximum number of VM’s per datastore, Network bandwidth on each ESX
• Drafting and executing the implementation plan for rolling out the new design for the Dev/QA user community comprising of 1500+ users.
• Development of a customized self-service portal built on top of Lab Manager based on business service automation use cases(pre-provisioning designated virtual machines once templates are published and make them available to developers for fast access)
• Designing Template publishing system for streamlining publishing of new certified Templates every week to Lab-Manager Template Library.
• Deploying vCenter Heartbeat server for vCenter High Availability and failover.
• Hands on management on different Lab Managers features such as rapid provisioning, Template publishing, Configuration management, Linked clones and their context, storage leases, deployment leases, Image Library, Auto archive, Media store, Organizations and workspaces, Live-link, network spanning, Host spanning, roles and previliges, IP Pools, Storage and deployment Quotas.
• Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.

Confidential, Miami-Fl

System administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Windows NT, Server2003, Workstation, Proxy Server, Configuration, implementation and maintenance.
• Managed Domain Controllers and Additional domain controllers.
• Symantec antivirus console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server.
• Migration of active directory services from Win NT to Win 2k to Win 2003.
• Administrated Voice over IP
• Providing Capacity Planning review for all the servers.
• Patching all Windows servers and workstations with Company standards
• Customized windows 2000/2003 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching, to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment configuring& administering Domain Naming Server (DNS),Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Distributed File System.(DFS),Internet Information Service.(IIS) and Remote Access Service(RAS)
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.
• Work with vendor support contacts to resolve technical problems with desktop computing equipment and software.
• Assist in maintaining LAN/WAN records and, as appropriate, telephone systems cable
• Attended professional training from VMware
• Involved in installing of ESX servers and configurations
• Used capacity planer in consolidating the datacenter
• Created Virtual machines and installed OS and applications according to standards
• Configured and troubleshoot the network settings to virtual environment created
• Migrated the physical machines to virtual environment using VMware enterprise converter