SUMMARY:

• VMware certified IT Professional with 8 years of experience as VMware/System Administrator with extensive experience in Data Center Environment using ESX server 3.5, 4.0,4.1, ESXi 4.1,5.1,5.5 and VSphere VCenter Server 2.0,2.5, 4.0,4.1,5.0,5.1,5.5 running Other VMware Products like VCenter Update Manager4.0,4.1,5.1.5.5 VCenter Lab manager 4.0 , VMware View 4.5 and 4.0 and Site Recovery Manager 4.1 4.0 on Linux/Unix and Windows environment.
• Experiencing In, Designing, Configuring maintenance, monitoring, and support of the overall VMware environments.
• Experience in Creating Architectural Diagrams Using VISIO
• Expertise in ESX and ESXi servers configuration, Installation, management and maintenance with High Availability, DRS, Vmotion, Storage Vmotion and Fault Tolerance.
• Experience in Installation and Configuration of Single Sign on Sever SSO , vCenetr Inventory Services and vCenter5.1 ,
• Experience on VMware operations Manager and vFoglight.
• Experience in SRM implementation and vCenter Heart Beat Implementation.
• Worked on P2V conversions and migrations of physical servers with different OS like Windows and Linux to virtual Platform using VMware converter.
• Implemented Rapid VM deployment preparing templates, cloning and exporting VM to OVF format.
• Experiecnce with vCloud director and vShield Manager.
• Experience on Citrix Products Citrix xenapp Net scaler.
• Experience In Automation of Tasks Using Powershell Scripts.
• Worked extensively on Templates/Clones/Snapshots Resource pools
• P2V and V2V migrations using tools like VMware converter /Plate spin/Double Take.
• Experience of using VMware Consolidated backup and Data Recovery appliances in backing up and restoring VM's.
• Configured scheduled tasks, alarms and alerts, CPU, Memory and Network Disk monitoring in VCenter.
• Done Patch Management of hosts and VM's using VMware VCenter Update Manager.
• Experience in installing and configuring storage technology such as SAN, NAS, ISCSI, and RAID.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and maintenance of Linux Redhat, SuSE, Fedora, Ubantu, CentOS Servers.
• Experience Creating and Deploying Windows and UNIX Templates Using Virtual Center Server.
• Managed packages using RPM/YUM on Redhat Linux and maintaining patching on Solaris servers.
• Experience in installing, configuring, supporting and troubleshooting Unix/Linux Networking services and protocols like NIS, LDAP, DNS, NFS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Telnet, FTP, SSH, rlogin.
• Creating and Managing user accounts, system security, performance tuning, change management, Documents and procedures.
• Experienced in configuring RAID Mirroring, striping and parity using veritas volume manager VXVM and SVM.
• Experience in installing, maintaining and managing various rack mounted and Blade servers from Dell, HP, and IBM.
• Administering Microsoft Windows 2008 , Windows 2003, Windows 2000 and NT Server Environments, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP.
• Experienced on VMware View VDI Implementation.
• Worked on various SAN Fabrics FC SAN, ISCSI SAN and NAS storage.
• Excellent team player with good communication and leadership skills.
• Experience in working as a part of a highly cross-functional and global team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPEREINCE:

Role: VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deploying ESXi5.5, vCenter5.5 and Update manager 5.5.
• Deploying CISCO UCS with Blades B200M3 and B420M3.
• Involved in vSphere5.1 to 5.5 Migration.
• Building windows2012 and RHEL6 VMs
• Troubleshooting Issues and Root Cause analysis.

Environment: vSphere5.5 and CISCO UCS 5108 chasis ,blades,B200M3,B420 M3 Fabric Inter Connects6248 ,EMC Clarion cx4 -480,EMC VNX5700

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Role: VMWARE Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved In Architectural Designing and Implementation of VMware Solution for DCC Migration Project Which Supports 1000 Applications.
• Created Architectural Diagrams, Created Build Intent Diagrams and AS-Builts for New VMware Cluster Farms Using VISIO.
• Provided Snapshot Backup Solution Using TSM FOR VE.
• Engineered and Documented vCenter Roles and Responsibilities for Different Teams.
• Implemented vShield Endpoint Solution Using Trend Micro Deep Security Manager for 1000 VMs
• Involved in 100 P2V Migrations .Provided L3 Support and Root Cause Analysis.
• Involved In vSphere Migration from ESX3.5,4.1 to ESXI5.1
• Created Installation Run Books and Operational RunBooks and DR run Books Includes Change Control Procedures.
• Upgrade VCenter Operations Manager 5.7 from 5.0 version.
• Planning the vCenter Operations Manager Workflow with Alerts .Planning and Analyzing Data for Capacity Risk.
• Optimizing Data and Forecasting Data for Capacity Risk Using vCOPs.
• Identify Underlying Resource Problem for Cluster, Host and VMs Level and Customize the Badge Threshold for Infrastructure Objects and VM Objects Using vCops.
• Implemented SCRP, ICR Control, ITLProcesses According to VMware Hardening Guide and Company Policies.
• Involved in Tech Refresh Project from old dell Servers to new HP 380G8s.
• Involved In Network Migration and Storage Migration Projects.
• Involved in Updating Patches and VMware tools Using Tools like HPSA and SCCM.

Environment: ESX5.1, vCenter 5.1, Update Manager, vCops, HPSA, WONDOWS 2008.WINDOWS 2003, SUSE Linux, Cent OS, HP 580G7s, HP 380G8s

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Role: VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of VMware vSphere 5.0,5.1 with Enterprise Plus Features of vDistributed Switch and Host Profiles Upgrade Experience from VMware Infrastructure 4.0 , 3.5 to vSphere 4.0 and Update 1 including vCenter4.0 , ESX Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools and H/W upgrade to vSphere 4.0 Ver 7
• Installation of ESX 5 Nodes, vCenter 5, Update manager, and Administering VM's across 2 Datacenters running around 10000 VM's.
• Installation of vCenter5.1 Single Sign on Server sso ,Inventory Services and vCenter5.1
• Implementation Of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
• Experience of Storage Migration on 5000 VM's Fiber channel Upgrade from EMC DMX-3 to DMX-4
• Implementation of SRM 4.0 on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution for VMware Vsphere Environment, vSphere Linked Mode and replicated storage, Configuring Sites Roles and Privileges, Alarms for monitoring the Site Status. Failback Testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and Shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites
• Replaced Host Profiles Using Power Shell Scripts.
• Installation and Configuration vCenter HeartBeat for vCenter failover and FailBack Purpose.
• Huge P2V Experience using VMware converter running different applications with Different Hardware.
• Installing, Configuring, Managing vCloud director5 in the Internal Cloud Deployment Project.
• Installed and configured VCenter Operation Manger 5.0.
• Preparing vCOPs to monitor Virtual Infrastructure. Monitoring Day to Day Activity in vCenter Operation Manager .Identifying overall Health Issues and Source Performance Degradation.
• Working with Metrics and Charts on All the Metric Tabs in vCops.
• Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Linux Redhat and SUSE and VMkernel Linux appliances.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates, and many more
• Building Windows 2008 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines.
• Installing and configuring the VMware VSphere and creating clusters for High Availability HA
• And Dynamic Resource Scheduling DRS .
• Building VM's and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory , DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project
• Generating Reports and graphs on Performance of ESX Nodes Responsible for Installation and configuration of RedHat Enterprise Linux, Sun Solaris, HP UNIX and AIX Servers.
• Storage setups, RAID, Logical Volume Manager, system backup design and disaster recovery Systems performance monitoring.
• Involved in upgrade of packages and patches for HP-UX, Linux servers.
• Experienced with the installation, configuration volume/File system management using Veritas Volume Manager, Logical Volume Manager LVM .
• Managing physical volume, logical volume, volume groups using LVM's in Linux and HP-UX.
• Expertise in setting up HPSA for automated installation, software distribution, configuration changes and operating system updates to a network of Linux Machines.
• Experience in Redhat Cluster Suite and Global Filesystem, Redhat Network Satellite Server.
• Configuring and Administering NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Samba in heterogeneous environment.
• Remote installation of ESX Hosts, Windows 2008 Servers using Raritan and Communicating with Network/Storage teams for Server Support.
• Upgrading the Firmware to the latest version/date on the BIOS/ controllers/ hard drives.
• Installed the ProLiant Support Packs PSP to deploy software updates remotely and thereby reducing server maintenance costs.
• Installed the VMware Capacity Planner in planning, designing and implementing the virtual infrastructure environment and monitoring of virtual environments.

Environments: HP ProLiant BL Series, Smart Start 8.4, VMware VSphere 5.0, ESX 3.5, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VCenter Lab manager, VCenter Capacity Planner, Clustering, Windows Server 2003/2008, Exchange 2003, vCloud Director 5 , Citrix XenApp .Symantec Endpoint, TSM Backup.

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Role: System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5 on a Dell 2950 Power Edge M1000, VMware Infrastructure Client, VMware Virtual Center, License Server and VCB Setup.
• Monitored the Dell 2950 Power Edge M1000 Servers using the Dell Insight manager and provided the maintenance in case of power failures, and performed the device mapping.
• Designed the Infrastructure and administered the environment running over 20 ESX Hosts and 500 Virtual Machines. Also, designed the performance monitoring processes and improved disaster recovery processes to utilize virtualization benefits.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN Xiotech Magnitude 3D 4000S , Fiber and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMware firm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.
• Planning, implementing and managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.
• Managed VMware, Windows Server 2003, Active Directory and Microsoft's SMS 2003.
• Designed and implemented Microsoft SMS 2003 server site hierarchy for Asset Management and managing security update.
• Create Snapshot and test Rollback, configure VMotion, Cluster and Failover.
• Analyzed existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner.
• Configure VCB, which dumps the backup to Veritas Netbackup Server and Seagate Backup- Backup Proxy Server.
• Day to day support and maintenance of Operating Systems.
• Disk management, Data management, Security management applying patches .
• Monitored Server Hardware and Operating Systems.
• Worked on Symantec Antivirus and Symantec Endpoint protection for administering updates and cleanup of a community of more than 400 workstations.
• Provided remote support and Administration on network for Internal and External clients using tools like Microsoft Remote Desktop connection, Putty and Team Viewer.
• Participated in development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery Backup.
• Resource Management- Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion- migrations between ESX Servers.
• Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.

Environments: Dell 2950 PowerEdge M1000, VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5, VM Converter, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VMotion, VReplicator, clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, Vcenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery Backup, VMWare HA DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, Veritas Netbackup, Seagate Backup..

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Responsibilities:

• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 3.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Familiar with backup and restore of Vmware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and with other third party converters, Patch updation, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Installed and implement NFS server using windows UNIX service and configured with VMware Host servers for storage.
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP , Exchange 2003 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, RADIUS, Blackberry 5.0 and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003.
• Responsible production support of Active directory AD , GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Administrating/Responsible production Exchange 2003 Email Server, creating/disabling users, Mailboxes management, public folders administration, monitoring server health, LDAP, smtp traffic/queues, Resolving Outlook issues.
• Installed, Configured and Implemented Terminal Server TS RemoteApp on IIS 7.0 Windows 2008 R2 published applications using TS Web Access, RemoteApp programme and TS Gateway.
• Implemented Microsoft Clustering for IIS Web Servers.
• Familiar with web based .Net application, xml integration in IIS web server, IIS Clustering, Load Balancing, Logging and Reporting.
• Familiar with windows, software and Hardware based Firewalls. Allow/Block ports, inbound/outbound tcp/udp traffic, PAT/NAT, Remote Access VPN and site to site vpn, content filtering, log alayzing, reporting, configurations of Syslog, snmp, access control.
• Administrating Symantec Endpoint Antivirus console, managing 300 antivirus client's computers like definition updates, Exception policies, scanning, reporting etc
• Installed and implemented open source OpenFiler 2.3 iSCSI SAN with RAID 10 for Vmware and other servers with iSCSI initiators. Also managing iStor SAN and Symantec Backup Exec 12.
• Connected Thin Client WYSE, DevonIT , desktop Windows Xp2 clients to RDS 6.1.
• Installed and implemented Manage Engine monitoring application and configured SNMP and WMI on Servers and other network devices for reporting and alerts notifications.
• Responsible for helpdesk support using Spiceworks ticketing system, inventory and system reporting.
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008, Exchange Server 2003 , Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server,Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell PowerVault NAS, Zywall and SonicWall Firewall, Remote desktop services .

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System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Network cable runs for hosts across multiple data center.
• Worked with system, network, security, and storage engineering teams to prepare and configure new servers for the VMware environment.
• Performed backup and recovery of all systems, configurations, applications and data in the data center environment using NetBackup and other backup and recovery systems.
• Administered VMware environment, evaluated and implemented new hardware and software solutions that benefited architecture and operations.
• Identified and fixed ESX performance bottlenecks by working with clients and other teams.
• Configured NFS server to share resources across multiple servers.
• Resolved Production Server problems related to web applications, Cluster failover, File system, DNS and network connectivity.
• Performing key support activities to install, configure, secure, upgrade, patch, troubleshoot, maintain, tune, monitor, manage and provide 24X7 on-call support of the UNIX / Linux server infrastructure.
• Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris 9/10 on Sun Servers using jump start and RedHat Linux 5.x Servers using Kickstart.
• Assisted customers with setting proper Priority/Severity of problems, work problems to resolution, recorded/documented actions in databases as well as utilized tools and resources.
• Failover, clustering and Load balancing using BigIP. Sendmail/SMTP configuration on Linux/Solaris Server.
• Installed and Configured the Apache Web Server with Tomcat on Linux/Solaris and configured the Load balancing cluster between two web servers.
• Installed and configured SAMBA, Apache server for Unix/Linux and Windows File sharing
• Allocating necessary space requirements for oracle database.
• Disk and File system management thru Veritas volume manager, Solaris volume manager/Solstice disk suite, Logical volume manager.
• Installed and configured Veritas Cluster Server and Redhat Cluster Suite in Solaris/Linux environment.
• Administer the Network issues and Resolving Operating Systems related issues of AIX, Linux and making sure that the users get the proper environment for testing.
• Maintained Oracle database servers for backup operations.
• Installation and configuration of Oracle RAC on Linux and Solaris servers.
• Configure Qlogic/Emulex HBA card to connect Unix/Linux/VMware/Windows server to SAN switches/Storage.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance DNS servers, Mail servers, FTP servers, NFS, NIS, LDAP and Samba Web servers on Sun Solaris, and Redhat Linux platforms.
• Configuring distributed file systems and administering NFS server and NFS clients and editing auto-mounting mapping as per system / user requirements.
• Troubleshooting and analysis of hardware and software failures for various Solaris servers core dump and log file analysis .
• Installed the Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers in the organization with over 50 clients.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory, a directory service which contains information of all user accounts and which optimizes the network traffic. It provides the user logon and authentication services using Kerberos.
• Administered the Group Policy, a collection of permissions, security and rights which can be applied on sites domains and OU's. Also used group policy to automatically upgrade, repair software installation online.
• Installation and support of desktops with Windows 2000 and Windows XP Operating system.
• Provide Remote support and administration on network for internal and external clients using tools like Microsoft remote desktop connection.
• Provide day to day support troubleshooting installing for more than 50 users for hardware, network software's including Microsoft Office applications, Mail clients and other network related issues.
• Installation and configuration of network Printers.
• Managed the member server, a server which hosts services like IIS, DNS, and DHCP.
• Protected the organization's network from unwanted traffic coming from the internet using ISA Server which is a proxy server and a web caching server.
• Provided the backup and recovery of the files and data, worked on Windows Firewall, Terminal server, trouble shooting the computer related problems.
• Attending regular calls of the users related to computers network problems.

Environment: Redhat Linux 4.x, SUN Solaris 8,9, E250, E10K, E4500, SunfireV880/440, Sunone directory 6.2, Nagios, Sun Storage Array NAS and SAN Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Backup and Recovery, IIS HTTP FTP , Managing the Domain and the Domain Controller, ISA, Terminal Services, Disk Management, File Sharing.