SUMMARY

• Experienced VMware Certified Professional (VCP) wif 8+ years of experience in IT industry.
• Experience in implementation and administration VMware vSphere ESXi 5.x/4.x, ESX /3.x platform, vCenter 5.x/4.x/2.5 and vBlock 100/200/300/700 series.
• Extensive noledge in advance features like vMotion, Storage vMotion and Network/Storage IO Control.
• Excellent experience in working on configuring ESXi hosts and clusters wif all advanced features like HA, DRS, DPM etc.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter and Plate Spin tools.
• Experience in working on Host Profiles, Resource pools, storage profiles, VMFS datastore and templates for client VMs.
• Very good experience in creating DRS affinity, anti - affinity rules as required by business.
• Extensive experience in upgrading vCenter server and associated components like SSO and database servers.
• Upgraded ESXi servers using VMware Update Manager (VUM), CLI and DCUI.
• Excellent experience in working on vSwitches such as Standard vSwitches (vSs), Distributed vSwitches (VDs), and Cisco Nexus 1000V.
• Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 5.x/4.x and vCenter environment.
• Strong noledge and extensive experience in data center migration projects.
• Good experience on working on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for maintaining business continuity and performing disaster recovery (DR) activity.
• Monitoring of VM’s & ESXi server components (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) and security hardening for Security Compliance.
• Extensive experience wif Windows clustering on virtualized environments.
• Worked on PowerShell which is used for management of a system.
• Experience on PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE).
• Experienced in performing administration tasks using PowerShell scripting using cmdlets.
• Involved in working wif PowerShell API’s.
• Extensive experience in managing vBlock using native element managers including vCenter, UCS, UIM, Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and fabric manager.
• Experience in working on day to day networking tasks across teh converged infrastructure platform me.e. Cisco (7k, 5k, 3k, 1k & MDS) switches.
• Cisco UCS (Unified Computing Systems) implementation and configuration specific to vSphere, for compute platform high availability, redundancy and elasticity.
• Good noledge and Experience wif Cisco UCS and HP Blades for ESXi hosts.
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly. A proven record of reliability, teh ability to perform under time constraints, and good judgment under pressure.
• Having good noledge 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.
• Can be able to travel all around teh places to troubleshoot any kind of environment and do teh installations whenever required.
• Knowledge Transfer, Best practices sharing and Run Book Documentation.

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, Confidential DB2, MySQL

Third Party VMWare Applications: Plate Spin power convert, Vision core, VCharter Pro, Plate Spin Power Recon, Solar winds. vFoglight.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, ST Louis, MO

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESX 4, ESXi 5 and vCenter Server 5.
• Installations of VM Ware 5.0,5.5 and 6 versions along wif teh Active directories, DNS and DHCP services, File servers etc.
• Expertise in maintain teh data centers and doing teh data center Virtualization.
• Experienced in working wif teh OVM, KVM and Hyper-V Hypervisors.
• Had a great experience working wif Power shell 3.0 version where we use to write commands to make teh active directory work easier.
• Experienced working wif VRealize, vm ware orchestrator and other automation techniques.
• Used some scripting skills to work wif teh PowerShell which can make teh Active directory tasks easier by consuming less amount of time.
• Had experience in implementing and doing teh server automation and also wif other vm ware tool sets like VCO, VRA and other tool sets.
• Experienced in installing and implementing teh Active directories and DNS servers and creating teh groups and organizational units for teh enterprise.
• Had great noledge working wif teh inter cloud environment.
• Well Experienced wif designing, installing and implementing Vmware ESX servers and vCenter server 4.0 and setting up ofVMwareFeatures like V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Experienced in configuring teh remote VM servers and adding additional Vmhosts.
• Had a great experience working wif open stack and open daylight.
• Used to take out teh performance and teh utility reports of teh VMS on a daily basis.
• Used to do teh technical write ups and experienced in developing a plan for teh future projects.
• Managed 300+ ESX servers located at various data centers by one virtual center. Each Data center has multiple clusters wif biggest of 15 clusters used for HA and DRS for disaster recovery, Load balancing and troubleshooting.
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots wif in no time, Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.
• Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (VSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating teh networks from VNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• Configuring different type of Port Groups Policies, Applying Security policies, Traffic Shaping, Load balancing, Failover detection, Hard and Soft zoning and VLAN Tagging.
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) usingVMwareconverter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Daily responsibilities included maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, Hot and Cold Migration of virtual servers and performed Storage VMotion where teh storage is migrated.
• Created and maintained SQL server cluster for HA, DRS, VC, ESX servers and VM's.
• Good experience wifVMwareUpdate Manager and Host Update utility to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment.
• Responsible for supporting system design and implementations as well as provide first level of support for any issues.
• Supports integration between virtual platforms and desktop tools to deliver optimal environment for Customer support representatives.
• Have a better noledge on distributed computing concepts, network routing and data center switching.
• Planning migration strategies, DR plans wif SAN and NAS data.

Environment: vSphere 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0, Hyper-V, Linux, Horizon View, Power Shell 3.0, Update manager, Windows 2008/2003 Server, DNS, DHCP, print services, v Realize, VCO, VRO, Active directories, Cisco UCS 5108, NSX and VSAN, P2V Experience, Data Center Virtualization, Citrix and SQL, SAN and NAS technology.

Confidential

Sr. System engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Installed and managed multiple versions of vCenter server and complete virtual infrastructure.
• Involved in setting up newVBlock300 and Cisco UCS Blade Servers wif EMC VNXstorage.
• Installed ESXi on physical servers and configured them as per requirement, and added them to teh clusters.
• Converted several physical servers (both Linux and Windows) to virtual servers using Plate Spin.
• Worked on troubleshooting ESXi hosts including DRS Cluster errors wif shares, pools, and limits.
• Provisioned LUN’s on teh arrays and added them as data stores on several ESXi hosts.
• Created data store clusters and configured Storage vMotion for efficient usage of resources and obtain good performance.
• Configured multipathing options on teh hosts as per requirement.
• Experience in monitoring cluster performance, optimize teh server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and over servers.
• Managing multiple vCenter Server inventories using VMware vCenter Linked Mode.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management including Raid Groups and Traditional LUNs, Pools and Thin LUNs, LUN Migration, FAST VP, FAST Cache, Storage groups, Host Initiator registration.
• Implemented and Tested desktop virtualization and introduced VMware View to teh client.
• Installed and configured VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) on multiple sites and created disaster recovery plans.
• Involved in upgrading every component of teh Vblock and personally responsible for seamlessly upgrading entire Vblock.
• Participating as an active member of teh software development lifecycle, through attending new feature requirements reviews and developing leading edge processes to support these new product enhancements.
• Maintained data center environment and monitoring equipment.
• Provided performance metrics, work load status update, and project status updates at biweekly workload tracking meetings
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory (AD) as required after gaining required approvals.
• Experience using a formalized change management and incident management process.

Environment: VMware ESXi 5.5 Server, Windows 2003/2008 R2, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, Dell Power Edge Servers, HP Servers, CISCO blade servers, Confidential Blade Servers, Remote Desktop Services, Confidential TSM, Microsoft Visual Studio TFS.

Confidential

Sr. VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Working on teh converged infrastructureVBlockand handling VMware, Compute, Network and storage components of it.
• Involved in teh storage operations on all teh models of VNX 5300, 5500, 5700, VNX-e 3100 and closely worked wif EMC team on VMax storage as well.
• Installing ESXI on Cisco UCS blades and C200 racks, using scripted installations, configuring and hardening ESXi servers.
• Administration of various network infrastructure components including Nexus 1000v, UCS Fabric Interconnect 6120/6140, Nexus 5548.
• Cisco UCS integrations wif Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN.
• Installing and implementing teh VMware ESXi 5.1 host servers wif vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Configuration of vMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMware vCenter.
• Trouble shooting issues related to VMware ESX host, VMware virtual center, HA, DRS, VMware update manager.
• Part of teh Data Center migration team, handling server backups and maintaining teh server inventory list, getting server up and running after teh Data Center migration.
• Created teh Images for Windows and using those Images for bringing back teh physical servers, which went down after migration. Performed teh back up of virtual machines by taking snapshot.
• Establishing Single Sign on access between two applications using Active Directory Federation Service Software (AD FS 2.0).
• Administrating teh Domain and Services, Active Directory, GPO, IIS (performing code loads on teh production environment), Generating request and Installing VeriSign on teh website.
• Configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory Services.
• Worked wif teh Confidential Tivoli Storage Manager, for taking teh Incremental backup of teh server.
• Rack-mounted servers like Confidential & Dell hardware, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, VMware ESXi 5.1 Server, Dell Power Edge Servers, CISCO UCS blade servers, HP Servers, Confidential Blade Servers, Remote desktop services, Confidential TSM, Confidential NAS, Cisco Nexus 5K.

Confidential, San Antonio Texas

VMware Administrator/ Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience wif installing, configuring and maintaining ESX Servers (ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1 and VMware ESX 5.1) and Server migrations from physical to Virtual using Hot and cold cloning technology in VMware.
• Determining customer requirements and designing VMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware's product portfolio from teh vCloud Suite to teh Horizon Suite to meet teh functional and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware VSphere4, ESX 3.5 and ESXi Server, VMware View.
• Designing, configuring, and administering LAN and WAN connectivity on Cisco hardware.
• Configured and managed Cisco network hardware servicing teh corporate LAN and 40+ remote point-of-sale offices.
• Configured and deployed Cisco UCS computing clusters wif VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5.
• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance wifin vCenter vSphere 5 infrastructure.
• Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere 5 high availability management cluster configuration for customers.
• Monitoring and maintenance of Vcenter sever heartbeat.
• Providing and maintaining user access in Vcentre, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU or memory.
• Installing and Configuring VMware vCenter Orchestrator.
• Design, configure, and support Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Technologies.
• Management & Troubleshooting of VM Environment for Desktops.
• Installed necessary security patches every month to our production and pre-production environments.
• Patch management using VMware update manager for ESX server.
• SAN space allocation for ESX servers host Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX server.
• Configured multiple static and dynamic IP addresses for forward and dynamic routing.
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Inventory and health management using insight manager.
• Involving in maintaining and updating Active directory, GPOs, Global Groups and Resultant set of Policy for autantication.

Environment: VM ware ESX 5.1, UCS C240 M3, Windows 2008/2003, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NTFS, Blue cat BCN -XMB Adonis (DHCP, DNS), JUNOS Space, Cisco Nexus 5K, CISCO switches, HP P4000, Emulex NC553, NC551 HBA's, SQL Server 2008, Linux, VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, VMware vSphere client, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented and administered a VMware ESX/ESXi environment.
• Supported and maintained teh ESX architecture consisting of 30 ESX hosts, 6 HA and DRS clusters w/ vMotion, and over 250 Virtual Machines in which 53 has FT enabled.
• VMotion Managing and implementing various projects wif all phases of life cycle for virtualization.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and Templates.
• Cloning Virtual Machines.
• Managing Virtual center permissions.
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster wif HA and DRS.
• Sizing hardware according to needs and requesting quotes from different vendors.
• Administration of Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows Servers, including oracle instances.
• Responsible for planning and implementation of teh company’s system and network.
• Modify, patch, and rebuild teh Linux kernels.
• Maintain DNS, DHCP and Trust Relationship between domains.
• Experience in network monitoring and patch management using VMware Update Manager.
• Implimented Resource Pool to divide teh VM’s according to their resource requirements.
• Responsible for creating Host Profile and wif that me developed 100 hosts.
• Platespin PowerConvert, VMware Converter used for Physical to Virtual/Virtual to Virtual conversion/Physical to Physical conversion.
• Recommended, redesign of VI3 environment.
• Application Migration from physical to virtual/virtual to virtual platform.
• Develop, test, and maintain a Disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.

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