SUMMARY

• Over 7+ Years of experience in implementing and Managing enterprise scale VMware vSphere Infrastructure.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuring, Deploying, Trouble shooting, administration and maintenance of ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1/ESXi 5.1/ESXi5.5 and VMware Virtual Center 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0/5.1/5.5.
• Experienced in ESX & ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• VMware vCenter Operations Manager deployment for Cloud infrastructure performance and capacity monitoring.
• Experienced with the VMware HA, FT and VMware DRS.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMotion, Storage vMotion, VM Lab Manager, Vmware Heartbeat, Vmware Usage meter and vCenter and VMware Orchestrator
• P2V (Physical to Virtual) and V2V (Virtual to Virtual) conversion using VMware Convertor.
• VMware Site Recovery Manager Implementation and Management for Virtual Infrastructure Automated Disaster recovery.
• Administering and managing Windows server 2003/2008 Active Directory services, DHCP and DNS servers. Updating servers with latest service packs, security patches and antivirus definitions.
• Network Infrastructure involving DNS, DHCP and WINS servers, TCP/IP Protocol Stack.
• Ability to implement VMware’s Virtual Switch technology; port aggregation, NIC teaming, VLAN trunking and port groups.
• Implementation of VCloud Director, vShield Director.
• Experienced in resource management framework, creating resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• Install and configure vCloud Automation Center 6.0
• Extensive knowledge vCAC - Virtual Center Automation Center.
• Handled the installation of operating systems and post configuration on Microsoft and Linux platforms.
• Deploying and supporting large scale RHEL (Redhat Enterprise Linux) and Windows in virtualized environment.
• Implementing and Managing Vblock Advanced Management Pod.
• Having good knowledge on Cisco MDS switches, Fiber channel HBAs in SAN environments.
• Knowledge experience in iSCSI, SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concepts. Strong understanding of Networking Protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, DNS DHCP.
• Knowledge Transfer, Best practices sharing and Run Book Documentation.
• Familiar with agile and scrum methodology.

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, 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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston Texas

VMware Administrator

Environment: VM ware ESX 5.1 & 5.5, UCS C240 M3, Windows 2012/2008/2003 , Virtual Center, VMware ThinApp, Virtual Infrastructure Client, Vcenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery & Backup, VMWare HA & DRS, JUNOS Space, Cisco Nexus 5K, CISCO switches, HP P4000, Emulex NC553, NC551 HBA's, SQL Server 2008, Linux, VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, Fault tolerance.

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 the ground up including vCenter, Database Server, Update Manager, and ESXi hypervisor hosts.
• Implementing vCenter Operations Manager for Performance and Capacity management of the virtual infrastructure.
• Implementing highly automated Disaster Recovery for the Virtual environments with VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Managing all aspects of the 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 the 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 the 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.

Confidential, Jersey City NJ

System Engineer

Environment: vSphere 4.0 and 5.0, ESXI 5.0, Windows 2008/2003 Server, Red hat Linux, Cisco UCS 5108, VCE V block, UCS manager, VNX, EMC Unisphere, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, putty, Power shell and SQL.

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.
• Have good knowledge on desktop virtualization.
• 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 the system as reported on a periodic basis and participate in security audits
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP c7000 blade administration.
• Have good working experience with VCE Vblock.
• 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 Datastores upgrade to VMFS 5.
• Was responsible for formulating disaster management techniques, and the course of action to be taken, in case of a network failure.
• Ensured that all the software and hardware components are upgraded properly, and also designed the company's networking policy.
• Co-ordination with network team for implementation and upgrade services CISCO MDS switches.
• 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.
• Have good knowledge about Cisco MDS switches…
• Having good knowledge 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 the requirement of the 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 the baselines for the updates
• Creating Backup and restore of data by using windows backup and recovery utilities.

Confidential, Milwaukee WI

VMware Administrator

Environment: HP DL 580 G5\G7, DL380 G5\G6\G7\G8, SRM5, vCenter Converter, vCenter Update Manager, Cisco Switches, Windows 2008/2003/2000 , DNS, DHCP, WINS, TCP /IP, NTFS, Unix Sles and rhel.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in migration project from ESX 3.x to vSphere 4.0 and complete migration of VMs
• Worked on Datacenter consolidation projects.
• Migration of virtual machines from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0.
• Installation and configuration of ESX servers and facilitate server consolidation, migration and testing.
• Analyze performance of physical servers to determine and customize virtual server specification Deployment of VM Templates to deploy virtual machines.
• Installing patches and software upgrades recommended by security scan.
• Expertise in Thin provisioning, VMFS expansion, RAID technologies.
• P2V & V2V conversions using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 (SCVMM).
• Upgrading of VMware tools to match ESX host level.
• Good experience working with HP EVA virtualization adapter.
• Server bang light fixing once every month.
• Clear-up of orphaned vmdk files periodically to clean up memory.
• LUN path mapping and keeping track of VM’s along with their datastores.
• Implementation of Host Profiles in development cluster.
• Good experience in working on vShield manager.
• Implementation of EMC power path LUN path monitoring tool.
• Management of HP SIM for hardware monitoring.
• Experienced in migrating and importing virtual machines.
• Configured, deployed and involved in troubleshooting of VMs, ESX/ESXi servers, vCenter server, vSphere 4.0. Configured Fault Tolerance (FT) for business critical servers.
• Implemented HA by configuring HA clusters with DPM enabled DRS clusters for automated power management and load balancing. Scheduled tasks for manual vMotion and Storage vMotion of VM’s and managed snapshots prior to planned patch install or upgrade.
• Installation of vCenter server and Installing Virtual center components
• Updating ESX host’s using VMware Update manager.
• Troubleshooting of file system issues with remote servers via telnet and putty.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, VizonCore and PlateSpin Converters.

Confidential

Storage and Virtualization Engineer

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.0, EMC Avamar, Cisco UCS, P2V Conversion, NetApp, Plate spin migration, vCenter upgradation.

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 the ESX cluster builds to make sure all set configurations adhere to the Implementation guidelines.
• Infrastructure testing on the new builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production.
• Implementing Change requests for different configuration changes within the 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.