SUMMARY

• Infrastructure Engineer wif 10+ years of experience in Linux and VMware vSphere - global virtualization, converged & traditional infrastructures
• Managing & providing administration support all client supported locations
• Maintaining and managing the converged & traditional infrastructures
• Performing regular patch upgrade and upgrading the traditional hardware wif latest firmware and patches.
• Installation, Configuration, Administration, upgrading and Troubleshooting of VMware VSphere ESX, Virtual Center …
• Planning and Designing VMware vSphere and VMware Virtual Center …
• Installation, Configuration and maintenance of Hosts, servers and Virtual machines.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates as per security standards.
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS), Configured Resource Pool, Motion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP.
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter).
• Moving VMs from one LUN to another LUN using Storage VMotion (SVMotion).
• Migrating of using VMotion Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• System Administration-Managing Users, Groups, Roles and Access Permissions.
• Professional, outgoing tier 3 supports and solutions provider for complex IT strategies and initiatives to reduce maintenance and costs along wif providing stable and reliable services.
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly.
• A proven record of reliability, the ability to perform under time constraints, and good judgment under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• RHEL and AWS foundation Certified
• VMware VSphere
• VMware DRS
• HA & FT
• Fault Tolerance VMware Replication
• VMware Update manager
• Skytap Cloud
• Netbackup
• AWS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Norwalk,CT

Linux/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Virtualized platform VMware wif 1500+ hosted VMs on 70+ ESXI Hypervisor Spread across 4 locations across globe.
• Performed VM migration from VMware to skytap cloud.
• Deployed VMware infra at 3 client location for Server consolidation project and Virtualized 230 Physical servers on VMware ESXi platform P2V migration .
• Implemented and Managing the Security standards in the virtualized platform as per agreed standards wif client.
• Attending client meetings to gather the business requirements and providing solutions accordingly
• As part of business requirement involved and implemented datacenter migration (Lift and shift) from actual to new location.
• Upgraded VMware environment from vSphere 5.0 to vSphere 5.1 and vSphere 5.1 to vSphere 5.5 and vSphere 5.5 to vSphere 6.0 across all the client locations.
• Performing data store cleanup quarterly to reclaim space on the datastores.
• Using host profile to accelerate ESXI provisioning and recover ESXI passwords.
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 230 physical servers by using VMware Converter
• Implemented Skytap cloud solution for the sales team to user their VMs outside the network and from anywhere.
• Creating clones and templates of Virtual Machines & Deploying VMs through Templates
• Providing solutions for the issues in VMware, Linux and windows environment
• Working wif business clients to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes, and workflow.
• Performing the cluster restructuring to manage resources.
• Providing hands& feet support on datacenter issues.
• Installed & configured the VCenter server & ESXI hosts
• Upgraded the ESXI hosts using update manager & CLI
• Managing and maintain the VMware tools for all the VM's windows, Linux & VAPP's.
• Upgraded the VMWare tools through VMware update manager
• Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches
• Product support RHEL installations, application integration.
• Operations analytics to optimize initial placement of workloads through vRealize Automation.
• Installed following servers Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 & client's OS: Win Vista, XP,7, 8
• Investigated user problems, determined possible solutions, oversaw software, installation and upgrades.
• Creating and extending the file systems and give the permissions to file system.
• Experience on tickets to implement change requests for storage allocation & de-allocation in the environment.

Environment: Skytap, Embotics, VCommander, VMware ESX 6.5/5.5, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NTFS, vSAN, RHEL 5 & 6, VMware converter, VMware VSphere client, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling.

Confidential

Linux/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed VMware vSphere 5 and created virtual machines on ESX 5.5 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Worked on various infrastructure projects surrounding Servers consolidation, Physical to Virtual Migrations, Storage and Server Management.
• Worked on Central Management Server (vCenter Server) to manage all the ESXI hosts in the datacenter.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines and Templates. Working wif snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, Storage VMotion.
• Deployed new vSphere 5.5 infrastructure for VDI implementation.
• Configure User Access for vCenter Server.
• Managed VMware-assisted support calls\cases pertaining to resolving environment issues.
• Performed VM Storage migrations to new EMC and Netapp storage arrays.
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Installed ESXi servers and added to vCenter clusters.
• Responsible for building and deploying servers running Windows 2008 R2, and Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, and Red Hat).
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Virtual Infrastructure.
• Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines.
• Performed data store migration using VMware storage vMotion.
• Setup Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, vMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates.
• Building VM's and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.
• Worked on release management, Incident management, Problem management and Change management according to ITIL process.
• Good experience in configuring, optimizing and troubleshooting of Linux/Unix servers and the Networking setups.
• NIC teaming at ESX server level for NLB and redundancy.
• Performed security monitoring tests to identify intrusions.

Environment: Skytap, VMware VSphere, ESXI 6/5.5, DRS, VMotion, FT, Cloning, Templates, vconverter, vRealize, Linux/Unix servers, P2V conversion.

Confidential

Linux/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrating production server’s infrastructure that includes AIX, Solaris and Linux servers.
• Monitoring, patching, installing and mirroring production servers.
• Installation of new physical servers from ILO and HMC.
• Executed and performed Product support and installation documentation.
• Responsible for software upgrades, application support and backups.
• Build and troubleshooting experience Wif VMware ESX 4.x/5, vCenter server and VMware vSphere Suite Expertise in migrations from ESX 4.0 and 5.0.
• Strong experience wif the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM).
• Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments, Experience wif installing, configuring and troubleshooting.
• Familiar wif backup and restore of physical servers from netback and scheduling batch and OS jobs from control M.
• Familiar wif BMC Remedy and service now ticketing tools.
• Worked on issues related to Filesystem system, users (group and permission), server performance (RAM and CPU utilization), RAID, LVM, Networking and NFS.

Environment: LINUX, Solaris, AIX, VMwareESXi 5 Server, VMware vSphere 5, ESX 5, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN, IBM Blade Server, Sun Spark servers, HMC for AIX and Linux servers, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell PowerVault NAS, Zywall and SonicWall Firewall.

Confidential 

Desktop Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Handling user’s calls related to their Confidential desktops and Laptops.
• Guiding end users to install Windows and Linux Operating systems on their Desktops and Laptops.
• Rectifying theissue and arranging the site engineer for any Hardware related issue.
• Making advisory for repeated hardware issue so that the new firmware can fix that.
• Troubleshooting Network and filesystem related issue.

Environment: Confidential Laptop, Desktop, Thin Clients, Windows XP, Linux