SUMMARY

• Hands - on experience with VMware vSphere, VDI View, SRM, vROps, P2V, Windows, Linux and EMC/Netapp Storage Area Networks (SAN) & Network Attached Storage (NAS).
• Design and Implement virtualization solutions based on VMware vSphere ESXi 5.x/4.x, ESX 4.x/3.5/3.0 platform, vCenter 5.x/4.x/2.5.
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation hardware maintenance and break/fix activities.
• Experience in VMware vSphere 5/4, VDI View 5, SRM, P2V migrations and Infrastructure Build /Design and administration.
• Extensive hands on experience with design and implementation of enterprise wide Virtualization Projects with VMware vSphere with Cisco UCS and HP OneView.
• Design, Implement and troubleshoot any issues related to VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling, Resource pools, VMware High Availability, Enhanced vMotion (EVC), ESX Host Profiles, vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS), and VMware Fault Tolerance (FT).
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching.
• Experience installing, managing and administering Linux, Windows 2012 and 2008 based Domain controllers, Backup / Additional Domain Controllers.
• Experience with VMware Horizon View 5 and application packaging using VMware ThinApp 4.7
• Experience in upgrade in VDI view to version 5 in large environments.
• Extensive Experience on Storage provisioning LUN creation, Mapping and Masking in SAN environment.
• Experience in using on command systems manager.
• Extensive Hands on experience with SCOM and good exposure to other Systems Center technologies.
• Experience in handling hardware manufactured by Cisco, IBM, Dell, HP, EMC, NetApp, and Brocade.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application on daily basis.
• Good Understanding of VCE, vBlock, vCloud and Cloud Computing environment.
• Working knowledge of network device management, i.e. switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers.
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management, Support, Analysis and maintenance.
• Expertise with Windows deployment technologies (WAIK/ADK). Carry out daily tasks using the SCCM tool to automate the processes.
• Develop exceptional relationships with co-workers, management and end users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application & Virtualization: VMware vSphere ESXi 5.x/4.x, ESX 4.x/3.5/3.0, vCenter Server 5.x/4.x/2.5. VDI View 5, vConverter, VMware SRM, VMware Data Recovery, VMware converter, VMware ThinApp, vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS), vCloud directory, Power Shell, VMware Update Manager, vShield and VMware Fault Tolerance (FT).

Hardware: Windows, Macintosh; Dell/EMC SAN hardware, miscellaneous PC hardware, IDE hard drives, SCSI devices, Direct Attached Storage

Networking: Ethernet 802.3, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS, ARP, FTP, Telnet, DSL/Cable, hubs, routers (Cisco IOS), cabling, SMTP, POP3, NAT, VPN, VLAN, RIP, Ethernet 802.11, LAN/WAN

Languages: C, C++, PL/SQL, Perl, XML, NET, HTML, DHTML.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/2012 , DOS, UNIX, Linux

Database Platform: Oracle, Developer 2000, Microsoft Internet Information Server, relational database Management Systems (RDBMS), Central Quarantine Server 8.0, ACT 2000 database

Software: Microsoft Office Suite, Veritas backup, Yosemite Technologies Tapeware, Symantec Antivirus, Watch guard Firebox System Manager 8.0.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

VMware/Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administered VMware Infrastructure vSphere/vCenter Environment from Development and support to day to day maintenance, running 250 ESXi hosts and 3000 virtual machines.
• Design, Installation, configuration of new vSphere 5.5 ESXi Servers on HPC7000 system and Cisco UCS.
• Performed Hardware and Software maintenance of Windows server Environment, including VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts, Clusters, Servers and Virtual machines.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines, Installed VMware Tools, Templates, Cloning, Deployed Virtual machines.
• Installing VCenter server on Win 2008 Server to maintain all the ESXi hosts and VMs.
• Upgrade ESXi hosts from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 and applying patches to the present ESX from 5.5 U2 to 5.5 U3 using VMware Update Manager.
• Upgrade vROps (VMware vRealize Operation Manager) from 6.1 to 6.2 and worked on performance analysis on vSphere infrastructure.
• Worked with VMware Orchestrator, VMware vRealize Automation 6.0 (vRA), Catalog management, creating cloud server provisioning entitlements, creating and defining business groups, creating catalogue items, creating services for the catalog items, creating windows and Linux Red hat blueprints.
• Hands on experience with vRealize automation and understanding of workflows to deploy virtual machine through it.
• Worked on Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration of Windows 2003 & 2008 as well as Linux Servers using VMware Converter.
• 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.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESXi servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server for HA, DRS.
• Provided system administration and technical support for Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 servers.
• Deployed Software updates to the servers using SCCM
• Used PowerShell Scripts for various Administration tasks to automate repeated process.
• Created Rack Diagrams for the HPC7000 chassis using Microsoft Visio
• Perform Health check analysis for the entire VMware Infrastructure using VMware Health Check
• Mounted Brocade DCX - 8510 and DCX- 4S Switches in Datacenter
• Zoning and administration of SAN switches (Brocade DCX), migrations of SAN switches across the platform.
• Storage Provisioning on different Hitachi Enterprise storage platforms such as AMS and VSP.
• Worked on Restoring Files/Directories using Commvault Simpana
• Administration of HP C7000 Chassis with Onboard Administrator and Virtual Connect using VCM.
• Experience of installing & configuring UCS B250M2, UCS B200M1 and UCS Rack-mount servers in UCS 5100 Chassis and configuring the Cisco UCS 6100 Fabric interconnects.
• Installed the various Media Agents for the various servers, adding new clients for the commvault Environment.
• Monitoring daily backup status, restoration of missing files/directories, disaster recovery and other backup related activities
• Worked with network team to get the VMware internal network configured properly.
• Provide 24/7 infrastructure support via on-call and involving relevant teams on major issues.

Environment: VMware vSphere, vRA, Cisco UCS, HP Blades, Hitachi VSP, CommVault, SCCM, vROps 6.2, MCA free, Windows Servers 2003/2008/2012 , Brocade Switches.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation VMware, Cisco and EMC based virtualized infrastructure for enterprise scale deployments.
• Administration of Cisco UCS 5100 chassis/B200 M2, B440 M2and HP Blades C7000 environment. Very good knowledge in troubleshooting.
• Worked on vCOPS 5.8/5.7 configuration and performance analysis on vSphere 5.5 infrastructure.
• Administration of the environment having about 100+ hosts and about 3000+ VMs.
• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.
• Creating and configuring vNetwork Standard Switch (vSwitch) and Distributed Virtual Switch (dvSwitch).
• Configuration of different Port Groups Policies, applying security policy and Traffic Shaping.
• Deploying and configuration of virtual machines from templates and administration of any associated tasks like installing VMware tools and upgrading the hardware.
• Performed Hot Cloning, Cold Cloning, Classic vMotion and Storage vMotion. Performing p2v migrations.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers for Security Compliance.
• Configuration, Administration and Monitoring HA, Fault Tolerance and DRS Clusters in Virtual Center Server.
• Administration of Active Directory Domain. Installing and Configuring DNS Servers and DHCP Server.
• Implementing Active Directory Sites and Services for optimizing the Replication and logon traffic.
• VNX storage system Implementation and administration in VMware environment.
• LUN provision and presenting to ESXi hosts based on the storage utilization and alerts.
• Settings up the UCS Servers from the scratch such as configuring Fabric inter connects and MDS Switch for Cisco UCS.
• Creating Service profiles and performing day to day operations of Cisco UCS.
• Worked extensively with team in case of Cisco UCS failure and fixed the issues.
• Effective interpersonal skills, work well as a team member with people at all levels of an organization and of various cultures. Equally capable working independently.
• Ensure compliance of all Standard Operating Procedures and other network related procedures for the SAN environment.
• Daily duties Involve Storage allocations/ de-allocations from VMAX and also Brocade Switched Zonings and also planning for migrating production from CLARiiON, DMX to VMAX, VNX 5500.

Environment: VMware vSphere, VDI View5, Cisco UCS and HP Blades, SRM 5.X, VCOPS 5.8/5.7, Active Directory, DNS and DHCP, SAN, VMAX.

Confidential, Austin TX

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing vSphere 5.0/5.1 on half blade and full blade servers on Cisco UCS.
• Implemented HA by configuring HA clusters with DPM enabled DRS clusters for automated power management and load balancing.
• Scheduled tasks for manual vMotion and Storage vMotion of VM’s and managed snapshots prior to planned patch install or upgrade.
• Handle the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• Worked on VMware View 5.0 and 5.3 with installation and configuration.
• Setup of View Connection servers, composer, user profiles and events database.
• Deployed multiple Desktop pools both persistent and non-persistent from templates.
• Build multiple templates working with application teams and desktop team for both persistent and non-persistent pools.
• Create new OUs and assign the desktops based on the requirement.
• Planned, designed and upgraded the SRM 4.5 to SRM 5.x and tested the new feature vSphere Replication in test lab environment and also performed migration to SRM 5.0 with Array based replication having VNX 5300 as the storage array.
• Trouble shooting and performing day to day operations on Cisco UCS.
• Creating and assigning the service profiles for Cisco UCS.
• Handled the Cisco UCS firmware Upgrade.
• Installed of latest versions of Operating Systems on demand, per requirements of the clients.
• Full design documentation & case management including issue analysis, scope, environment, action planning.
• Sorted complex issues pertaining to hardware and network failure - Monitored both Hardware and Software systems for errors and updated them regularly to maintain proper functioning and flow of information.
• Performed security monitoring tests to identify intrusions.
• Provided Tier 2 and Tier 3 technical support.
• Knowledge of common IT processes, including ITIL and SDLC.
• Deployed performance enhancing/monitoring tools.
• Troubleshooting issues in windows 2008.
• Recommended new updates and changes required by the clients.
• Migration of active directory services from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008
• Produced new system and network designs for clients.
• Documented the new Windows server settings that have been applied to the network.
• Implement VMware vSphere, a new EqualLogic SAN, virtualize existing hardware.
• Configured Management and Resource Cluster, Add Host to a Cluster, Configure its licenses, Network Configuration, DNS and NTP.
• Worked on Windows SCVMM (system center virtual machine manager)
• Designed lab infrastructure, created testing plans and test cases.
• Planned and updated RPA’S to the latest version 3.3.SP2 and comprehensively troubleshoot issues pertaining to VNX 5500, VNX 5300 and Recover Point.
• Working knowledge of network device management, i.e. switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers.

Environment: vSphere 5.0/5.1, Fiber Channel - SAN, ISCSI, NFS(NAS), SRM 4.5 to SRM 5.X, Windows server 2003/2008, Active Directory, DNS, Windows SCVMM, VNX 5500, VNX 5300.

Confidential, NY

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure VMware vSphere 4.0 and VI 3.5 environment for hosting the servers on HP C7000 blade enclosure.
• Migrate Virtual machines from one environment to newly build Environment using vMotion and VMware Converter.
• Deploy VMs using Templates as per requirements. Clone VMs and took snapshots of VMs.
• Responsible for well-organized and maintain Virtual Environment.
• Installation of Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Proxy Server, Configuration, implementation and maintenance.
• Installation, Configuration and Managing Domain Controllers.
• Symantec antivirus console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server.
• System Troubleshooting in case of a failure and maintain server uptime above 99.99%.
• Migration of active directory services from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003.
• Providing Capacity Planning review for all the servers.
• Patching all Windows servers and workstations with Company standards.
• Customize the Windows 2000/2003 Servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching, to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment.
• Configuring and administering Domain Naming Server (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and Distributed File System. (DFS), Internet Information Service. (IIS) and Remote Access Service (RAS).
• Experience managing Hyper-V and related management infrastructure.
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.
• Work with vendor support contacts to resolve technical problems with desktop computing equipment and software.
• Assist in maintaining LAN/WAN records.
• Worked on Symantec Antivirus and Symantec Endpoint protection for administering updates and cleanup of a community of workstations.
• Participated in the 24x7 On-call support rotation.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks).
• Involved in the management of Sun Solaris, Windows, and IBM AIX servers. Duties include installation of packages, patches, creating file systems, mounting the file systems persistently, utilization of space and directed data storage for the above mentioned servers.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.0, VI 3.5, HP Blade server, Windows server 2000/2003, DNS, DHCP, DFS, IIS, RAS, Hyper-V and IBM AIX severs.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implemented and managed HA and DRS clusters in vSphere4.0 and 4.1 Environment.
• Strong knowledge on resource management framework using Resource pools.
• Installing, configuring and administering Windows 2003 Enterprise Server.
• Installing, configuring and managing Active Directory.
• Configuration of Domain Naming Server (DNS).
• Symantec antivirus console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server.
• Configuration of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
• Configuration and managing Internet Information Service. (IIS 6.0)
• Configuration of Remote Access Service(RAS)
• Excellent communication and written skills.
• Configuration of Virtual Private Network.
• Creating User Accounts, Configuring User Profiles, creating local and Global Groups and implementing Group Policies.
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions and System Policies.
• Installation of Operating Systems Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 etc.
• Configuration and Managing Remote Installation Service(RIS)
• Trouble shooting the networking related problems.
• Extensive knowledge of VMware Thin app.
• Worked extensively on Templates and clones.
• Knowledge & experience on Recover Point based migration cutovers, RP Consistency Group setup, etc.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and masking the Thin devices to the host, using SMC 7.0.
• Worked on Microsoft Active directory.
• Strong experience with DNS and DHCP.
• Worked on Red hat Linux, Ubuntu, SuSE Linux and Cent OS.

Environment: vSphere 4.0/4.1, Windows XP/2000/2003, DNS, DHCP, IIS6.0, VPN, VMware ThinApp, VMAX array, Red hat Linux, Ubuntu, SuSE Linux and Cent OS.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Non-Disruptively performed host based migration from one raid group to another to overcome performance issues.
• Created and Configured the Logical Drives on Windows 2003/2000/NT4.0 servers using Windows Disk Manager.
• Assigning Switch ports to NAS filers and zoning them to Tape drives so that Tapes can back up the Filers.
• Experience creating detailed technical architecture blueprints.
• In depth knowledge on VM Ware ESXi Server and Desktop Virtualization products.
• Maintain, test and support of VMware ESX server running both Linux and Windows 2003 servers.
• Building servers and creating templates/images for deploying virtual machines.
• Built the Base Images in VMWare time to time and testing the solutions using the linked clones and full clones.
• Troubleshooting equipment malfunctions, failures, and develop resolutions in a timely fashion.
• Worked with Network Concepts such as OSI reference model, IP protocols such as TCP/IP, IP addressing, subnets, routing protocols like OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, and STP.
• Setup and configured various RAID 1 and RAID 5. Applied patches and upgrades to the servers.
• Work with Systems team to build and deploy standardized desktops.
• Database setup and design Installed and configured Oracle RDBMS on UNIX and Windows

Environment: Windows 2003/2000/NT 4.0Servers, NAS filers and Zoning, VMware ESX servers, Oracle RDBMS on Windows and UNIX.