Summary

• Disk management - partitioning of disk as per requirement, file system creation and management.
• CISCO UCS architecture and Configuring Connectivity experience.
• A dedicated and responsible IT Professional over9 years of experience in building and implementing new systems as well as overseeing systems migrations/upgrades and implement effective deployment strategies.
• Takes on additional responsibilities and meets new challenges as a result-focused team player making strong contributions to long-term business success.
• System administration and operational support on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware ESX/ESXi,KVM, ILO, Hyper-V.
• Experience in Installing/designing/building/configuring documentation related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux via Kick start/PXE and Designing VMware and Windows Server Infrastructure.
• Proficient in providing support on the deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers from both Operating system level and Application level.
• Proficiency in advanced features of ESX/ESXi, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, FT, Update Manager, VMware vCenter Operations, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
• Experience in VMware vConverter for P2V and V2V conversion and preparing checklist.
• Experience in storage SAN HP/EMC/Netapp/SUN storage administration
• Experience in VDR and DR SRM Operations .
• Proficient in all aspects of Red Hat Enterprise Linuxfrom installing, Configuring Hardware, and Customizing Applications using the latest technologies available to design fully automated operating systems.
• Experienced in deploying RHEL 5, 6.0 in a Blade environment.
• Experienced supporting and deploying Web application servers such as IBM WebSphere, Web logic, Apache HTTP server in production environment.
• Experienced in Security hardening Firewall/SElinux major Production Servers and compiling, building and installing Web server based Linux Tools.
• Experience in Configuring and Maintaining Active Directory, DHCP, DNSservers in various Organizations.
• Excellent understanding of vBlock platform of all series.
• Knowledge on Vision OS, which is used in vBlock platform for management console.

TECHNICAL SKILL SET

• Operating Systems : Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, RHEL 4/5/6 Linux, VMware ESX/ESXi,MS Win Server NT 2000/2003/2008.
• Hardware platforms : Sun Fire Server: V120, V210, V240, V440, V480, V490, V880, V890, Sun Blade Server: 100, 150, 1000, 2000, 2500.SUN Storages: D130, D1000, A1000, 3510, 3310
• Virtualiza tion : VMware vSphere 3.5/4.1/5.0,5.1, ESX 3.5/4.0 ESXi 4.1/5.0,5.1 vCenter5.0, 5.1 VMware Update Manager, VMware Converter, VMware vCloud Director 5.1., vBlock100, 200, 300 700.
• Web/Application Server : ApacheTomcat, HTTP Server, WebSphere Application Server 5.0/7.0,WebLogic.
• Database : Oracle 10g, 11g,SQL,Oracle RAC
• Networking :DNS, NFS, NIS,Cisco Routers / Switches and LAN.
• Protocols : DHCP, TCP/IP, FTP, LDAP.
• Desktop Application : Microsoft Office 2003/2007, Outlook 2003/2007, VMware Workstation 7.0 and 8.0
• Scripting Languages : Shell Bash , Perl, Python, PowerCLI, PowerShell.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

• Worked on Dell KACE deployment and automation of systems.
• Responsible for building a wide range of application servers.
• Managed and deployed agents for the Nimbus monitoring system.
• Red Hat Enterprises Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux Installation VMWare clone Installation.
• Developed a system to update Linux and Windows hosts automatically using KACE.
• Deployed Tivoli backup system.
• Audited VMWare infrastructure and developed an upgrade plan.
• Wrote shell scripts to automate daily tasks.

Environment : Redhat Linux 4/5/6,Oracle Enterprise Linux5/6,DataDomain,UCS Chassis,UCS Rack MountServers,Dell1950,R710,HP ProLiant 8Gen,F5,vCenter5.0,5.1,VMware ESXI5.0,5.1,P2V Migration,DRS,vConverter,FC-SAN,Nagios,Nimbus,Windows Server 2003/2008/2102,Oracle Enterprise Manager, Autotask, Daisy.

Confidential

Linux/VMware Administrators

Responsibilities

• Worked with Avocent-DSview3 for Remote management.
• Responsible for managing HP Data Protector and OEM monitoring .
• Configuration of NFS share and assigning access permissions, auto mounting of directories to the client machines.
• Red Hat Enterprises Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux Installation Kickstart Installation.
• Installation of software packages using RPMs YUM.
• Users, Group and Sudoers Administration.
• Sever disposal and File system Backup and Recovery.
• Disk Management - Partitioning of disk as per requirement, file system creation and management.
• Upgrading the Linux Kernel.
• vCenter and ESX Server Troubleshooting.

Environment : RedHat Linux 4/5,Oracle Enterprise Linux4/5, UCS Chassis, UCS Rack Mount Servers, Dell 1950,R710,vCenter 5.0,5.1, VMware ESXI 5.0,5.1, P2V Migration, DRS, Update Manager, vConverter, FC-SAN,Nagios,Windows Server 2003/2008, Avocent DSview3,Oracle Enterprise Manager, JIRA.

Confidential

Linux/VMware Administrators

Responsibilities

• Experience in VMware vCloud Director 5.1: Installing, Configuring, Managing and Monitoring.
• Experience in VDR and DR SRM Operations
• Configure support SAN Fiber-Channel,iSCSI .
• Normal as well as advancedRed Hat Enterprises Linux Installation Kickstart and networkInstallation.
• Installing of software packages using RPMs YUM.
• Users and Group Administration.
• Backup and recovery zip using tar.
• Disk Management - Partitioning of disk as per requirement, file system creation and management.
• Experience in Logical Volume Management LVM and RAID in Linux.
• Configuration of NFS share and assigning access permissions, auto mounting of directories to the client machines.
• Make use of FTP server in order to upload and download files from clients.
• Web Server configuration - Setting up Apache Web Serverwith Name IP based virtual hosting along with User IP based security Management.
• Samba Server configuration with Samba Clients.
• Experience of Firewall,SELINUX and Load Balance.
• Configuration and administration of LDAP, NFS, FTP, SAMBA, APACHI and POSTFIX Servers in Red hat Enterprise Linux.
• Experience in Windows 2003 and2008 Active Directory Installation and Configuration.
• Maintenance of DNS and DHCPservices on Linux machines.
• Installed and configured ESX 5.0, 5.1Servers on Blade Servers. Creating Virtual Machines. Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Configure vCenter Server 5.0, 5.1 in production environment and created many cluster and enabling HA and DRS for Load balancing and High Availability. Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion, SvMotion and cold migration.
• Performed physical to virtual P2V and V2V migrations for approximately 25 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Firmware upgrade, managing the servers, collecting Logs, Release note of Version, open KVM console for troubleshooting.
• Troubleshooting the vBlock systems and applications software issues that manage tickets opened by the customer for technical problem and supporting client by 24X7.

Environment:Administering VM's across 3 Data centers running 2200 VM's, RHEL 5/6 Linuxand Windows clients and servers, UCS Chassis, UCS Rack Mount Servers, HP G6/G7 blades, HP Blade chassis c7000, vCenter 5.0,5.1,VMware ESXI 5.0,5.1,P2V Migration, DRS, Update Manager, vConverter, Distributive Switches. HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, FC-SAN,Nagios,Spacewalk,Windows Server 2003/2008, Websphere,Weblogic.

Confidential

Linux/VMware Administrators

Responsibilities

• Yum configuration package installation through YUM.
• Configuring and deploying of iSCSI server and Client.
• Installation of Redhat Enterprise linux.
• Configuration and troubleshooting for Redhat Linux.
• Handling troubleshooting issues like booting, rpm packages, User management and backup.
• IP bonding for load balancing and fail over,Firewall, SELINUX.
• Hosting and securing web pages using Apache httpd web server and ssl.
• User Administration Quota Management
• Creating and deploying LVM, resizing the logical volume and volume group.
• Configuration and administration of LDAP, NFS, FTP, SAMBA and POSTFIX Servers in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Performances, CPU and Memory monitoring of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Create, deploy and manage Linux and windows VM using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, which includes moving and migrating VM from one cluster to another cluster or within the same cluster.
• Experience in Windows 2003 and2008Active Directory Installation and Configuration.
• Heartbeat clustering for high availability in Apache.
• Installed and configured ESXi 5.0, 5.1 Servers on Blade servers. Creating Virtual machines. Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Configure vCenter Server 5.0, 5.1 in production environment and created many cluster and enabling HA and DRS for Load balancing and High Availability. Worked on Migration concepts like Vmotion, SVmotion and cold migration.
• Performed physical to virtual P2V and V2V migrations for approximately 50 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Firmware upgrade, managing the servers, collecting Logs, open KVM console for troubleshooting.

Environment: Administering30ESXi hosts with 100 RHEL, RHEL5/6 Linux and Windows OS virtual machines, Windows Server 2003/2008, UCS Chassis, UCS Rack Mount Servers, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, vCenter 5.0, 5.1, VMwareESXi 5, 5.1, ESX Server 4.1, P2V Migration, HA, DRS, vMotion, HP Blade Servers, HP Blade chassis c7000, HP Blade Server BL460c G7, SAN,Nagios, Spacewalk,Websphere, Weblogic.

Confidential

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities

• Analyzing, troubleshooting and resolving problems involving operating system issues, application issues, Website issues. Installed, configured and upgraded Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x to 5.x and configured various patching schedules to meet patching criteria quarterly.
• Installing of software packages using RPMs YUM
• Disk Management - Partitioning of disk as per requirement, file system creation and management.
• Experience in Logical volume Management LVM and RAID in Linux.
• Swap management, Knowledge of IP tables, SELINUX.
• Sun Solaris Server Health Check Audit.
• Installed and configured ESX 3.5/4.0 Servers on Blade servers. Creating Virtual machines. Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Performed physical to virtual P2V .

Environment: Environment: RHEL 4/5 Linux, DNS, DHCP, HP Blade chassis c3000, HP ProLiant Server DL360 G4, SAN, Solaris Server.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities

• Management of Active directory and windows server infrastructure.Installation and configuration of Domain Controllers and implementation of trusts.
• Managed the installation and configuration of Windows 2003 Server/Workstations.Configured servers for DHCP and DNS services.
• Installation of Operating Systems Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003 etc.Install and maintain of Hardware, Operating System.Migration of active directory services from Win NT to Win 2k to Win 2003.
• Performed hands-on administration and monitoring of Local Area network LAN .Resolved Microsoft desktop applications Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook issues.
• Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security.Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs.
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.

Environment: Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT Server, Windows XP, WINS Servers.