PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 8+ years of experience in designing, implementing and maintaining System administration, virtualization and Enterprise Server Integration and Installation. VMware vSphere and related components.
• Excellent experience in working several Vblock models like Vblock … Vblock 540, Vblock … and expertise in all associated products like VCE Vision etc.
• Experience in installation and configuration of vCenter 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0 along with implementation of advanced options like linked mode and Enhanced Linked Mode (vSphere 6).
• Experienced in Linux / Unix System Administration of REDHAT Linux 5.0 & 6.0, SuSE Linux 10, and Sun Solaris 9/10
• Excellent experience in installing and configuring various versions of ESX and ESXi (including 6.0).
• Experience in working on Platform Service Controllers and implemented several versions of vCenter installations like Embedded and External with high availability options.
• Experience in Migrating from VMware ESXi to Hyper - V 2012 with SCCM SP1 R2 and other tools.
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migrations using several tools like vCenter Convertor, PlateSpin etc.
• Experience in creating and configuring Standard VSwitches, VMware Distributed Switch and Cisco distributed switch (Nexus 1000v).
• Experience in performing several storage administration tasks like creating new volumes or luns on EMC storage arrays (like VNX, XtremIO, VMAX) increasing size of existing volumes, troubleshooting storage connectivity to ESXi hosts and other servers like Windows servers, AIX etc.
• Experience in performing zoning on fabric switches like MDS and Brocade to UCS blades, HP C7000 hosts or bare metal windows or Linux servers.
• Hands on experience in performing day to day operations on all ESXi and vCenter related components.
• Excellent experience in maintaining and troubleshooting the entire infrastructure stack i.e. ESXi, vCenter, VM's, Storage, and Networking etc.
• Experience in designing and implementing disaster recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager, vSphere Site Replication Manager and EMC Recover Point.
• Excellent experience in working on all VMware advanced settings and technologies like vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS), Resource Pools, Storage Clusters, etc.
• Experience in Cisco UCS administration tasks like creating Service Profiles, several types of pools, creating VLAN's, troubleshooting any errors.
• Created several Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents and mentored other members in the team as required.
• Expertise in implementing and following ITIL best practices for operational excellence.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Servers: Sun Servers, Compaq Proliant, DELL Poweredge 2850, 2500 IBM e-Server, Acer Altos 12000, DEC VAX & PDP-11 Systems.

Operating Systems: Redhat Enterprise Linux 4, 5 &6, SuSE Linux 10, Sun Solaris 9 & 10, Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 & Windows XP/Vista/8/10, Active Directory.

VMware: VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere, VMware DRS & HA, VMware P2V Converter, vCenter Server, VMware Converter, VMware View, VMware Thinapp, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, DPM, FT, VMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Guided Consolidation, Lab Manager and VMware Workstation.

Network Equipments: CISCO Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches, CISCO 1600, 2500, 2600 series Routers, Cisco wireless access points, Intel Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches, Storage Area Networks (SAN).

Networking: TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, SMTP, FTP, SSH, DHCP, SSL, HTTP, HTTPS, Cisco Routers/Switches.

Web Servers: Apache server, IIS Web server 5.0/6.0.

Email Servers: Windows Mail Exchange Server.

Languages: C, PHP, Perl, Java, Visual Basic, java script, Flash AS3.

Database: Oracle 7.3/8/9i, MySQL 4/5 Server, MSSQL 8/9, PostgreSQL 7/8.

Software Modeling: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Phpmyadmin.

Office Automation: MS Office 2000/2003, Microsoft Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

VMWARE Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Implemented and Managed a VMware environment of 4 vCenters and 130 ESXi hosts with more than 10,000 VM's.
• Deployed new hosts and created ESXi clusters as required with all advanced configuration like HA, DRS and DP.
• Created new VM templates for several Operating Systems with all the recommended and required settings for optimum performance and efficiency.
• Involved in several hundreds of physical to virtual migration or conversion process on a day to day basis.
• Created resource pools and VM folders as required and allocated the memory reservations and CPU shares based on the business requirements and VM performance.
• Created VLAN's on Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 5k switches, Cisco Nexus 1000v and created port-profiles on N1K and port-groups on VMware distributed switch as required.
• Created new volumes on storage arrays using Unisphere and added them as VMFS5 data stores to the ESXi hosts.
• Created new volumes on storage arrays and added them as Raw Device Mappings (physical RDM's).
• Installation and configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN and NAS environment.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Creating and managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster.
• Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections.P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations. Creating templates from VM's and deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources.
• Creating duplicate VM's using cloning technology. Moving VM's from one LUN to another LUN using Storage VMotion.
• 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 the storage is migrated.
• Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between virtual machines.
• Moving physical machine to virtual machine using p2v converter.Configuring alarms, Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting, Troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs. Troubleshooting virtual machine issues.

Environment: VM ware ESX 5.1, VM ware ESX 5.5, UCS C240 M3, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NTFS, (DHCP, DNS), Cisco Nexus 5K, CISCO switches, HP P4000, VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, VMware Vsphere client, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling.

Confidential, HOFFMANESTATE,IL

VMWARE Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Built and Maintained VMware infrastructure with across Test and Demo Environments. Implemented VMware View 4.6 to distribute Client Desktops to user accounts
• Worked on creating Virtual Templates.
• Conducted Characterization Test Iterations on test floors with Process Automation Software package to collect performance data and to size the software installed Virtual Environment.
• Conducted Log Analysis and Troubleshoots on Performance of ESXi environment
• Troubleshooting network issues between Distributed VSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Provided Consultation for Troubleshooting in Virtualization, SAN Configuration, Active Directory group policy design & Implementation and ESXi Distributed VSwitch Network Configuration.
• Provided Technical Recommendations for Installation and Implementation of Virtual Environments in Industrial Plants. Identified Administrative Standards, Issues and Process Improvements.
• Created scripts in VB, Perl, and power shell to Automate Tasks in the Guest VMs.
• Built and maintained VMware Server Infrastructure.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of vCenter Heart Beat.
• Involved in SRM Setup and Performed Failover Testing.
• Provided technical assistance and best practices for customers to simulate in their own environment
• Worked on developing technical papers on Virtualization for Process Automation Systems

Environment: HP DL 580 G5\G7, DL380 G5\G6\G7\G8, vSphere 4 and 5, SRM5, vCenter Converter, vCenter Update Manager, VMware ESXi 4.1 & 5.0, Cisco Switches, DNS, DHCP, WINS, TCP /IP, NTFS, Unix Sles and rhel.

Confidential

VMWARE Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining the VMware ESX 3.x / Virtual Center 2.x servers.
• Moving the running VM from one host to another using VMotion Technology.
• Creating, Installing, configuring and administer Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows and Linux.
• Worked on SAN concepts like switch zoning (soft & hard), LUN masking on SAN Storage devices, LUN creation and Storage Management.
• Create a cluster in Virtual Infrastructure and enabling HA and DRS feature.
• Configuring ESX 3.x servers to use iSCSI & NAS storage. Creating vSwitches and Port groups for the ESX servers.
• Configuring, Administering Snapshots copies and restoring lost files.
• Worked on trouble shooting the issues in Vsphere5.0.
• Knowledgeable in migrating the virtual machines between the ESXi Hosts using cold migration and VMotion.
• Network Configuration on ESX servers, which include Bonds & VLANs. Perform activities like scheduling of backups and system security.
• Enabling, Configuring, the Quotas and Modifying quota limit as requested by the user.
• Manage and resolve problems identified by OS Admins or monitoring software
• Increasing the Volume storage space as per the requirement.
• Add disk as needed to existing storage systems and configuring.
• Allocate shares/storage to new servers as needed.
• Exposure on configuring iSCSI LUNS, assigning to Solaris/Linux hosts and administration.
• Exposure on Snap mirror and Snap Vault usage for Data Protection.
• Maintain reports on disk utilization, availability and growth patterns.
• Coordinating with Global storage team in Global Maintenance Break (GMB) activities.
• Investigate, identify and document proposals that will improve application configuration and recoverability.
• Monitoring Filers through DFM for Disk, Network, CPU usages.
• Configured and deployed over 30 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5
• Interact with our clients to resolve their problems in a timely and accurate manner.
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation.
• Experience on hot and cold clone process.
• Administration of VMware Virtual Center and virtualization services VMware DRS, VMware HA, VMotion and Motion.

Environment: VCenter, ESXi 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 VMotion, VSphere, HA, Cloning, Snapshots

Confidential

VMWARE Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed, created, and managed VMware Data Center virtualization environments
• Worked on DFS Management for File Server.
• Designed, deployed and supported VMware ESXi Servers 4.1 and vSphere 4.1 and 5.0 environment.
• Performed Microsoft Server, Active Directory, Group Policy and desktop design functions design functions.
• Upgraded ESXi 4.1 to 5.0 and vSphere 4.1 to 5.0
• Supported P2V, V2V using VMware vCenter Converter
• Performed VMotion, Cloning, HA Clustering, FT, and worked with Update Manger
• Created and Managed Data Stores in ESX/ESXi servers
• Managed Data Store in ESXi servers and SDRS
• Handled business continuity and disaster recovery functions
• Designed, performed, and documented Microsoft Server security functions
• Configured and managed Hyper-V environment on Windows 2k8 with failover clustering
• Configured and Managed SCCM 2007
• Managed file server backups and helped to set up SQL server
• Supported IIS server
• Assisted, as needed, on various projects and support issues.
• Provided Tier 2 and 3 supports for the technology support center
• Managed DSView 3.0 environment.
• Configured and managed print servers.
• Responsible for attending change management meetings and submitting reports to management
• Implemented COB plan accordingly
• Responsible for attending review meeting with management
• Provided 24*7 on-call support for production environment

Environment: VCenter, ESXi 4.0, ESXi 4.1, VMotion, VSphere.SQL server.

Confidential

VMWARE Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured Clusters for the ESXi hosts and created Anti-Affinity rules in the DRS to either keep the VMs together or separate them on ESXi hosts.
• Configuration of VMotion, VSwitch, and VLAN in VMware Virtual center.
• Created resource pools and added VM's into the pools.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory.
• Working on troubleshooting the triggered alarms generated from VMware VCenter Server and solving the SNMP traps rise in VCenter.
• Using Hot Plug feature for increasing the performances of virtual machine
• Managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production.
• Took active part in troubleshooting VCenter and ESXi issues and also in system hardware failures.
• Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity planner.
• Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware Convertor.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESXi servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server for HA, DRS.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX & Virtual Machines.

Environment: VCenter, ESXi 4.0, ESXi 4.1, VMotion, VSphere.