SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years of experience in VMware ESXi 4.x5.0/5.1 /5.5 and Administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x.
• Experience in deploying and creating new VM guest wif utilizing RED Hat Satellite server and Kick start servers as well Customized ISO images and templates on a VMware infrastructure.
• Implementation of VMware Infrastructure for Windows, SLES 11 & Linux Red Hat 5.4/5.5 wif VMware ESXi 4.1, Virtual Center 4 and administered the VMs.
• Migration of applications from Linux (Redhat& SUSE) to Windows 2003/2008 and resolving any dependency issues after live upgrade.
• Install, integrate, tune and troubleshoot Apache, JBoss, Tomcat and Web Sphere application server and Web sphere HIS including troubleshooting.
• Expertise in building, configuring and upgrading CISCO 5180 Blade server Chassis wif CISCO B200’s, B230’s, B250’s, USCM, HP Virtual connect Support Utilities, VCEM.
• Experience in creating WWPN, WWNN, AND IQN Pools for FC and iScsi Storage connectivity for storage provisioning on UCS Profiles
• Expertise configuring HA, DRS, DRS rules, HA Admission control as part of brad new ESXi environment build out.
• Experience in configuring and deploying post - install bash/perl scripts using kickstart profiles to complete servers build outs wifout requiring manual configuration on the server
• Works closely wif Java Team to deploy JBoss applications and troubleshoot various Applications/DB related issues.
• Experience in virtual infrastructure and Enterprise Cloud technologies.
• Expertise in designing build/configure documentation related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux via Spacewalk/Satellite/Kickstart/Puppet/Cobbler servers.
• Design and Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the world to two centralized locations in US which involves 6000+ servers of various RHEL and SUSE versions.
• Performed Servers consolidation and virtualization using VMware virtual infrastructure, VMware ESXi, vCenter and VM tools.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked wif clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: RHEL 3.x, 4.x/ 5.x/6.x, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9/10/11,Windows 2003. 2008, AIX 5L, ESX 3.x, 4.x, and ESXi, 4. X. 5.x.

Unix Services & Tools: DNS, DHCP, HTTP, LDAP, SSH, SSL, SFTP,GREP, SCP, AWK.

STORAGE Technologies: NetApp NAS, Hitachi, Virtual Storage Plat

Virtualization Technologies: VMware ESX Server and vSphere, VmwareESXi, VMwarevCenter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

VMware/Linux/Windows ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Lead Team Migration Efforts ofVMware4.0 to 5.1 Migration, Was responsible for design, build, and implementation of Enterprise Upgrade toVMwareESX 5.1. Implemented Project plan, design documentation, and streamlined licensing process bringing environment to 9 ESX Physical Hosts both in Tempe and DR Site in Tucson.
• Implemented VCenter Operations Manager and Configured Performance Metrics for better evaluation of growth in environment and health monitoring of entireVMWareInfrastructure.
• VMwarevSphere administration and configuration in a large enterprise environment
• VMwareHealth Analyzer health checks and implementation of remediation actions
• VMwareESX performance monitoring and alerting to resolve host and virtual machine issues
• Cleaning up orphaned virtual machines
• Physical-to-virtual (P2V) capacity planning and conversions.
• Windows server administration and Configuration.
• Working wif onsite engineer in data center for connectivity issues in ESX/SAN and supporting the hard ware issues in the lab.
• Build servers using Kick Start, Red Hat Satellite Server, Spacewalk, and vCenter, vSphere Client
• Updating patches to keep servers updated against bugs present in the operating system using Red Hat Satellite Server, yum, etc.
• Worked wif Red Hat Satellite Serer which is used to push changes across various servers simultaneously.
• Troubleshooting VSphere ESX/ESXi, ESXi Clusters, Host Profiles, vDistributed Switches, HA, DRS, VMotion, Storage VMotion, Fault Tolerance, Resource pools, Vcenter Permissions, Snapshots, Disk expansions, Templates, snapshots, Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) using PowerCLI and Remote CLI.
• Created Domain User Accounts, Distribution Groups wif Active Directory/Exchange environment.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration ofVMwareESXi 5.0, Virtual Center 4.0 Servers and also patching, management and troubleshooting ofVMware, and ESX Servers.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Red Hat Linux Infrastructures systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed configured and managed the entire windows servers 2003/2008/2012 environment running on HP/Dell/Cisco Hardware as well VMware ESxi.
• Deploy and Configure Red Hat Satellite Server 5.4/spacewalk, including maintaining any customized kickstart configuration channels to deploy RHEL.
• Create WWID pools, MAC pools and service profiles in Cisco UCS Manger on VBLOCK.
• Create any specific LVM’s for middleware developers as well as Database teams.
• Automating many day to day task through Bash scripting.
• Build servers using Kick Start, Red Hat Satellite Server, Spacewalk, and vCenter, vSphere Client.
• Evaluated 54 Server Environment wif Standard Licensing and Standard Port Groups.
• Updated 54 Hosts toVMWareESXi 5.1.0 U2a from 5.1.0 base, implemented quarterly patching and updating of hosts to mitigate risks.
• Pushed out Updates to Cisco UCS Blade Chassis and Refined Blade Templates to include additional Network Interface Cards for Cisco UCS Blades at Confidential Datacenter

Confidential

LINUX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configured SLES 9, 10, &11, Red Hat 4.x, 5.x, Dell power Edge Blade servers using Kickstart wif PXE for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/PHP) installations and disaster recovery setup
• Implementation of VMware Infrastructure for Windows, SLES 11 & Linux Red Hat 5.4/5.5 wif VMware ESXi 4.1, Virtual Center 4 and administered the VMs.
• Migration of applications from Linux (Redhat& SUSE) to Windows 2003/2008 and resolving any dependency issues after live upgrade.
• Install, integrate, tune and troubleshoot Apache, JBoss, Tomcat and Web Sphere application server and Web sphere HIS including troubleshooting.