SUMMARY

• 7+ years of comprehensive and in - depth experience in Designing, Implementing, Maintaining Virtual Infrastructure Environment using VMware.
• Experienced working with VMware vSphere, ESXi 5.x, 4.x, vCenter server 4.x,5.x and VMware Converter
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter, Platespin Power convert.
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology
• Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts: vSwitch and dvSwitch
• Experience with Cisco UCS blades and HP C7000 chassis and its components.
• Experience with Cisco Nexus 1000v switch and Virtual distributed switch.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management
• Have knowledge in troubleshooting the issues and working with incident management.
• Worked with VMware vSphere Update manager on the vCenter server as well as on an individual server component for a linked mode vCenter configuration.
• Worked with multiple vCenter servers and several data centers in an organization
• Dependable in delivering effective issue with ability to assimilate job requirements, and successfully implement and complete projects
• Enthusiastic individual with excellent communication skills recognized ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across cross-functional teams and diverse individuals at any levels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware VSphere 5.x, 4.1,, ESX/ESXi Server 5.x, 4.x and 3x, VMware Virtual Center Server 4x and 5.x, VMware DRS, SDRS, HA and FT, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Converter 4.1, 5.x, VMware Update Manager, vCloud Director 1.5

Operating Systems: Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 server OS, Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP Client OS, Linux

Application Servers: SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange 2007, Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0, 7.5, 8.0

Languages: C,C++,Java,C#,Software Testing

Desktop Application: Microsoft Office 2012, 2010, 2007 and 2003, Outlook 2007, 2010, Open Office and VMware Workstation 5.0, 6.0, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x

Hardware: DellServers, HP Blade servers and Rack servers, Enterprise switches and Routers, RAM, Cisco UCS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively Participated in Project for the development of New Datacenter Environment Supporting over large number of Users to accommodate.
• Installation and configuration of ESX 5.0/5.1 in New- HP Proliant series Servers in a core new Data-Center.
• Infrastructure based on Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware; Designed, implemented and supporting.
• Microsoft Hyper-V server 2008 and 2008 R2 and Creating virtual machines within Hyper-V.
• Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 Virtual Machines in the ESX host clusters.
• Installation of Vcenter server and Configuring ESX - host’s within the cluster, adding the features of HA and DRS.
• Running patches and updates through update manager for the Esxi hosts.
• Experience in managing and organizing documentation within operational environments with focus upon indexing and content labelling
• Monitoring of the Service Desk system and responding to issues that have been escalated to the GHS.
• Did V2V conversion of Hyper-V VMs, into VMware VMs from one datacenter to another datacenter.
• Maintaining, upgrading and troubleshooting VMware Windows based virtual machines.
• Building, deploying and customizing virtual machines, P2V and V2V conversion of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server editions using enterprise VMware converter and also installed the VMware tools on that machines
• Installation of windows server 2008 R2 in physical servers that host the primary duties.
• Monitoring logs and Alerts of Servers & Network devices such as Routers, Switches, Firewalls and etc.
• Installation of Red Hat Linux that supports the adapter servers for the project.
• Creating and modifying Perl, Powercli scripts for Linux and Esx Automation.
• Actively participated in Migration of Servers to the new Datacenter.
• Actively discussed with the vendors on software installations and vendor specifications for the new server.
• Scheduled backup jobs in over 500+ physical/virtual servers.
• Configuration of RDM and Cluster environment for Windows Servers 2008 with SQL 2008 cluster.
• Participated in Troubleshooting and configuration of Network issues for the VCenter in the New Data-centre Environment.
• Configured IIS, Asp.Net, and Java for the new servers.
• Extensive troubleshooting VMware, clusters, network, sharing, zoning issues and working with app-vendors to resolve the issues.
• Involved in daily ticketing of GPO, AD management, User permissions, Network sharing.
• Experience in production support, including problem identification, root cause analysis, ticket documentation, and customer and vendor relations.
• Involved in Daily meetings with App-vendors and client to accommodate on-going project issues, management and requests monitoring.
• Rotational on call support.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

VMware/Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining VMware ESXi 5.0 hosts and vCenter 5.0 Environment.
• Configure and worked on vCenter Linked mode.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2003 servers and 2008 R2 Servers on Virtual Machines.
• Hardware environment Dell M910, M710 full height, half height blades and cisco UCS.
• Experience in administrating Bios and firmware upgrades on Dell blade servers in iDRAC.
• Troubleshoot issues with Linked Mode connected with Update Manager.
• Updating and patching ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers using VMware Update manager.
• Perform server migration over Data centers using VMware converter 5.0.
• Creating and managing the VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Designed, installation and managing vCops.
• Supported large scale Data Center activities including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities.
• Worked with VMware engineers to build custom ESXi image for our environment, which includes (custom filter driver for Trend Micro, power path from EMC).
• Deployed and worked extensively on Trend Micro (Anti-Virus in Virtual Environment).
• Worked on VMware pCli for deploying vApps, for making any changes on VMs and Hosts like VMCI, Syslog settings, pulling any Host related or VM related data, also for setting Affinity rules for a VM on a host.
• Troubleshoot and remediated many issues related to VMware and windows, has very good experience in working with VMware BCS support engineers, also extensively worked with Dell enterprise engineer for any Hardware related issues, ex: system board failure, Bad Memory, CPUs also issues related to power, voltage.
• Experience in working with two different vendors at a time in SEV1, when a critical issue comes up in production environment, Ex: PSOD, APD situations.
• Hands on experience installing, configuring & administering Network services like DHCP and DNS services.
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX/ESXi servers, vCenter server and Virtual machines.
• Collaborated with multiple support teams to resolve critical time-sensitive issues.
• Maintaining the documentation and Run Books of the environment and updating them in Archives.

Confidential

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation
• Installed VMware ESX server 4.1/4.0 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates
• Load Testing on the VMware Lab Manager/Vcloud director deployment with DR Testing on SRM
• Installed, Configured and administered ESX 4.0 on HP Blade servers using HP onboard administrator for the HP Blade chassis & enclosures and Cisco UCS blades.
• Installed Management Server (vCenter Server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple hosts
• Linked Different Vcenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance of Vsphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, implemented migration of virtual machines using VMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter and Platespin PowerConvert.
• Hot and cold cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure
• Analyzing the VM-support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem
• Used Avocent DS View Module for the remote server access to the Dell rack servers
• Defined the Patch Management process for the VMware Environment to upgrade the Hosts and VM’s and Successful completion of Update Manager Installation in all the Environments.
• Performed hardware replacement and troubleshooting for the Dell Rack servers and HP Blade servers
• Used different Administration and support tools(Veeam Backup-FastSCP) to perform regular backup and restore of the virtual machines disks and data
• Used Solarwinds IP address tracking tool to track the subnets and IP addresses in order to maintain the whole network Topology
• Conducted VMware Virtualization Assessments to recommend consolidation scenarios and project cost savings associated with virtualization for clients.
• Windows clustering Administration and troubleshooting

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed VMware VSphere 4 and created virtual machines on ESX 4.0 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX 4.0 servers for server consolidation.
• Worked as Technical Lead on various infrastructure projects surrounding Servers consolidation, Physical to Virtual Migrations, Storage and Server Management.
• Responsible for the management of servers and duties include regular and proactive monitoring of servers, responding the alerts
• Worked on Central Management Server (VCenter Server) to manage all the ESX hosts in the datacenter.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Involved with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions
• Installed & configured VMware virtual center for production & DR site.
• Perform server consolidation using VMware Converter to convert physical machines to virtual machines in a production environment.
• Involved in VMware updates manager to install & troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, Storage VMotion
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines
• Analyzing the VM-support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem.